Modern serial killers have been put in the spotlight through combination of a very powerful media and a society fascinated with horrible, sadistic crimes. We are fascinated with serial killers so much, that we pay seven dollars to go see a movie where everyone but the bad guys gets strangled, mutilated, or shot. We seem to enjoy it in some sick way. The media goes out of its way to glamorize murder and terrify the public. We support killers like Charles Manson on Death Row with our tax dollars. In fact, we support them with more than that. About 5 years ago there was an art show in California entitled: The Death Row Art Show III. Pieces sold for thousands of dollars regardless of their aesthetic appeal, because of the identity of the artists. Serial killers are becoming as popular as rock stars.
I can honestly say I am also fascinated with the serial killer. But since when did we condone the practice of serial killers? Why aren't they put to death promptly after being convicted, instead of being kept alive for the media to interview? You have to wonder who is making money in this. The media will do just about anything for money. When are they going to learn that they have been corrupting the minds and souls of observers everywhere? When we allow people like this to dominate our media, it is in the way we are saying: it’s all right to murder. Did society and the media forget that the victims of those serial killers are our families and we?
Serial killers are a development of the industrial world. They really didn't come about until the late eighteen-hundreds when society was becoming modernized and the threat of the n
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