According to the FBI there are 30 serial killers active in the USA right now and
these people will have friends family and workmates so you may be thinking is
there anyone you know who seems a little bit off maybe slightly strange well
there are some telltale signs that someone you know it's a serial killer
watch out for these signs and you never know you could be friends with the next
Ted Bundy I'm Charlie and today we're going to look at 10 ways to know if
someone is a serial killer but before I'm taken out for giving away this info
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have high IQ now you may think that someone with a high IQ would do a really
good job maybe they'd be a lawyer or a doctor or a billionaire stockbroker
surely they wouldn't waste their life taking other people's lives well that is
where you would be wrong think about it serial killers have to be able to take
out a lot of lives without ever getting caught otherwise they'd just be singular
killers not serial killers and according to a profile of many captured serial
killers they're all very very intelligent many of America's top serial
killers have what is known as superior intelligence on the IQ classification
scale for example John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy had an IQ of around 113 and Ed
Kemper had an IQ of 140 which is genius they use their intelligence to
manipulate and convince various people of doing things for them for example ed
Kemper who took 10 lives convinced a psychologist to release him early he
somehow convinced psychiatrists that he had reformed and was now normal that was
after he took the life of his grandparents so the psychiatrists let
him go but he went out and took eight more lives so if you know someone who's
very intelligent or maybe even a genius then watch out next up is shiftlessness
shiftless loose is lacking ambition or being lazy
despite serial killers often being very intelligent they actually have a lot of
trouble keeping a job most serial killers have patterns of getting jobs
and being fired pretty quickly they're not very motivated often missed days and
he usually fired by their employers they also don't usually use their
intelligence in their work they may use it in their murderous side hustles but
not actually in their jobs and despite having genius IQs they often work in
unskilled labor or they just don't have any job at all and live with their
parents next up is small animals I'm pretty sure we all knew that one creepy
kid growing up who'd mess with animals well harming small animals is actually
the strongest sign that someone may turn into a serial killer if he knew someone
who has a kid harmed things like birds squirrels cats dogs and insects then
watch out all of these things mean they have a very very low remorse or no
remorse at all meaning they're psychopathic for example as a child
serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer would bike around the woods he
would then collect various animals in the woods and take their lives he even
once took the life of his own puppy dog putting his head on a stake when he was
done and Josef Stalin who I guess was kind of serial killer would take the
wings off flies as a kid you see many serial killers want to control other
people's lives but ash children the only lives they can control are that of
animals who have no power next up is antisocial behavior if someone
especially as a child is very antisocial then this is a big warning sign
now some children do develop more slowly so this is not definitely a sign but pay
attention if you see a child regress from being very sociable to extremely
anti-social for example edn who was the inspiration for psychos Norman Bates and
Silence of the Lambs Buffalo Bill had nose
connections the only social connection he had was his own very crazy mother and
his mother actually punished him whenever he tried to make friends later
on edge went on to take many many lives next up is arson all right this one is
of course a crime but it's still a telltale sign for worse things to come
this may surprise you but many serial killers actually start off as arsonists
arson is psychologically attractive to serial killers because it's all about
control being able to create a fire and destroy something shows a level of
manipulating power and control this is one of the main things that entices
serial killers to do what they do for example David Berkowitz known as the Son
of Sam was a pyromaniac as a child in fact he lit so much stuff on fire kids
in the neighborhood actually called him pyro is a nickname it said he started
around 1,400 fires in the New York area and he also took six people's lives next
up is families do you know someone with a poor family life
well that is often where serial killers come from people in their family often
have psychiatric issues alcohol histories or criminal histories and
these people often have very bad relationships with their families or no
relationships with them at all you see for many serial killers their families
are actually their first victims for example aired kemper that I
discussed earlier took his grandparents lives when he was only 15 and then after
he cleverly got himself released he took eight more lives among those lives
included his own mother who was very violent to him as a child he did very
crazy things to his mom's body for example using her head as a dartboard
and he even put her vocal chords into the garbage disposal apparently as well
as her being very physical towards him she would also shout a lot so I guess
this was his response next up is substances many serial killers will have
a big issue with substances for example Jeffrey Dahmer the cannibal that we
discussed earlier began drinking in his early teens and by high school he was
already an alcoholic his drinking resulted in him
kicked out of college and then the military and this then set him on a path
where he had no jobs no qualifications and he began to kill and finally on the
list we have childhood trauma another one of the number one causes of
why we have serial killers is them having bad childhoods
they are often maltreated physically psychologically or both and this is
often done by a close family member or members they often feel very sad
helpless and scared as a child and they want to instill that into their victims
and I don't just mean the people they take out I mean all the people who get
scared of them when reading about them in the media this was the case of the
first female serial killer in the USA Aileen Wuornos she was a founded by her
mom and never met her father instead her grandfather took care of her but instead
injured her badly physically and psychologically eventually she ran away
at 15 and by the age of 21 she'd taken four lives so those were the ways to
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