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2024-05-14 15:57:31 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 6E7D30E99C9FFFA9661E2F4B7825DE1F5DB4DF1BACEFE29042EFE3C16F79F5DB
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The term "Serial Killer" became fashionable in the 1970/80s when the term was first popularised by FBI Agent Robert K. Ressler. This graph is misleading, and clearly affected by a bias to labelling cases in the 1970s onwards as "Serial Killings", unlike in the decades prior. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/shadow-boxing/201410/who-coined-serial-killer
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