ABSTRACT
This chapter provides several explanations for serial murder given by psychologists, anthropologists, criminologists, geneticists, sociologists, biologists, and phenomenologists across the fields of sociology, psychology, culture, and biology. This chapter aims to summarize the history of how this knowledge came to be gathered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Behavioral Science Unit, police, researchers, practitioners, and journalists. In the end, there are more questions than answers in the realm of serial murder research given that this field of inquiry is in its infancy.
