What a fun thread! I ponder this every once in awhile for some reason. Too much CSI, perhaps?
Victims would be easy to find, in the late night clubs, maybe. I’m pretty sure that body parts, double bagged of course, would go right down the garbage chute and straight to the dump. Get a chance to really put those Ginsu knives to the test. Even if the cops traced it back to my building, how would they be able to tell which apartment? No way.
What would probably screw me over is that I’d have to keep trophies, right? One of my buddies would be over and open the fridge looking for vodka and find a human head, and then the screaming would start…
Yeah, too many friend to be a serial killer. Guess I’ll have to deal. And the big-assed scar on my right forefinger means a rookie cop with a hangover could recognize my fingerprint from 20 paces.
I’ll just stick to silently thinking hatefull thoughts at people who get on the bus in front of me and pay for the $1.75 fare in all nickles.
You mean besides my personal moral code? Not abused enough as a child, few sexual hangups, not enough rage and it’s definitely not specific enough to generate a fixation on a specific group or type. I’m also not obsessive enough. I learn a lot about something, drop it and move on to something else all the time. I’ve become a semi-expert on dozens of subjects but I tend to lose interest when I learn enough about it. It’d probably be the same with the killing thing. If I managed to get started, I’d figure out good ways to do it, get pretty proficient at it, and then get bored and quit.
On the other hand, aside from the abuse, I could check off almost all the boxes on a standard Serial Killer Profile™. Between the ages of 25 and 40; check. Above average intelligence; check. Torturing animals, maybe. (Does it count if you slaughtered animals for food when you were a kid? If yes, then I’ve got another check mark here.) Yadda, yadda.
In an earlier thread on traits of a serial killer I supported someone when he/she said that “You’re only a serial killer if you’ve killed someone.” According to those profile checklists, I’m just about the serial killer poster boy and the worst injuries I’ve caused anyone were in the course of self-defence. Bruises and sprains don’t count for much. Aside from self-defence or defence of an innocent (where I would kill without hesitation, though not without remorse) I can’t imagine wanting to kill someone. What would be the point? Strangers haven’t done anything to piss me off.
I have too much ambition. As a proto-Evil Overlord, I’m more into world domination than person domination. Killing is something I assign to my minions. It’s be like a big-time hotelier wanting to make beds and empty trash cans. People who want to do this serial killing stuff are such under-achievers.
