Mass Killers Come in All Colors

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The morbid media attention on mass killers such as Son of Sam, David Berkowitz, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and the Unabomber, reinforced the image of serial killers as loopy white males. But the slaughter of a Latino family in Indianapolis, allegedly by Desmond Turner (a young black male) and possibly other blacks; the shooting rampage by Beltway sniper John Muhammad; and the brutal family murders in April in Baton Rouge, Louisiana shatter the reverse racial profile of a mass killer. In the Indianapolis killings, police speculated that the motive was robbery - but then the killers simply decided to kill everyone.

Even before the latest spate of mass killings by blacks, there were horrifying and alarming signs that Muhammad and the young blacks that produced the gruesome body count in Baton Rouge and allegedly in Indianapolis were not total aberrations. A study and a survey on mass killers specifically looked at the race of the killers. The study found that the majority of mass killers were white. But it also noted that blacks now comprise about 15 percent of America's rogue gallery of mass murderers. That was a sharp jump from years past. The survey listed the names of blacks convicted of mass murders, and the number of murders they committed.

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Mass Killers Come in All Colors

In the Hollywood potboiler "Copy Cat," forensic investigator Sigourney Weaver is on the hunt for a mass killer. In a talk to investigators she cracks, "All African-American and Asian males, please sir down." She meant that black and Asian men should ...

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