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Serial Killers Have Rapidly Declined Since The 1980s
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I do research and writing for a crime docuseries, and the amount of times sex workers go missing and cops/news don't care until there's multiple bodies or a more well known disappearance occurs, is DISGUSTING.
The Poughkeepsie Killer was killing sex workers in broad daylight and was keeping their corpses in his hoarder house attic. The families of Wendy Meyers and Gina Barone went to the press and were told that the cases "weren't the kind the public cared about".
Police had the suspect but didn't pursue the case until 5 women went missing. Why do their lives matter less just because they do a different kind of physical labor for work? Each was someone's daughter.
This is the truth.
Cops don't do anything about it around here because they see it as some kind of Dexter situation, it "reduces their workload," and whatnot.
Way back in my homeless/drug addict days I was chilling with this bigger time cartel dealer guy. Everyone knew that he was definitely a serial killer but his target was always heroin addict girls and I am neither of those. We're driving around and cops just swarm us. After some questions, they ended up giving him back his gun (he's a felon) and telling him that their agreement was that he is not to ever leave the more ghetto area of town. They then openly gang stalked us until we went back to that area.
I'm fairly certain that police commonly know exactly who the serial killers are in their area and I think they often times have agreements with them.
Canadian cops from Vancouver ignored Robert Pickton's serial killing for over 20 years 'cause he targeted prostitutes from the DTES (downtown east side). He fed their bodies to his pigs and finally confessed to 49, convicted of 6 murders.
Toronto cops ignored outcries from the LGBTQI+ community for almost 7 years because Bruce McArthur's victims were almost all immigrants. The landscaper was finally convicted of 8 murders, hiding the body pieces in large planters on his client's properties.