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Here's an interesting article concerning the apparent vocational preferences of serial killers ...
FULL STORY: https://www.livescience.com/62520-preferred-jobs-of-serial-killers.html
What Are the Preferred Jobs of Serial Killers?
The recent and startling arrest of the elusive Golden State Killer ... has raised more questions than answers.
One question is how a serial burglar, rapist and murderer could operate in so many jurisdictions simultaneously and ... have law enforcement officials so myopically overlook the connections among his crimes in several different cities. ...
Similar questions have been raised in the past about other serial offenders, killers whose innocuous and even virtuous jobs seemed to belie the horrors they committed while hiding behind a veneer of respectability. ...
But in fact, occupations and serial murders are often linked, and some specific full-time and part-time jobs are strangely over-represented among serial killers. So much so, in fact, that over the last 50 years, some dominant patterns have emerged. ...
Serial killer job breakdown
— Top 3 Skilled Serial-Killer Occupations: 1. Aircraft machinist/assembler; 2. Shoemaker/repair person; 3. Automobile upholsterer
— Top 3 Semi-Skilled Serial Killer Occupations: 1. Forestry worker/arborist; 2. Truck driver; 3. Warehouse manager
— Top 3 Unskilled Serial Killer Occupations: 1. General labourer (mover, landscaper, et. al.); 2. Hotel porter; 3. Gas station attendant
— Top 3 Professional/Government Serial Killer Occupations: 1. Police/security official; 2. Military personnel; 3. Religious official
Obviously, not everyone occupying these jobs is a serial killer, nor are they likely to become one.
But there's something about these jobs that is inherently appealing to offenders, or that otherwise cultivates the impulses of serial killers-in-waiting and causes them to be curiously over-represented among this rare breed of murderer. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.livescience.com/62520-preferred-jobs-of-serial-killers.html