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I don't know if there are as many as there used to be, but there are definitely recent/ongoing serial killers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_serial_killer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pickton There's a time lag in famousness because A, it takes awhile just to put the pieces together and realize it is a serial killer instead of "normal" homicides or missing people, and B, the "lower-key" ones usually become well-known after identification and arrest, which takes awhile, if ever. Like before the EARONS book (itself only coincidentally famous), 99% of people outside of the area had never even heard of this guy even though he'd raped 50+ people and killed 12+. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/27/the-serial-killer-detector/amp quote:The F.B.I. believes that less than one per cent of the killings each year are carried out by serial killers, but Hargrove thinks that the percentage is higher, and that there are probably around two thousand serial killers at large in the U.S. “How do I know?” he said. “A few years ago, I got some people at the F.B.I. to run the question of how many murders in their records are unsolved but have been linked through DNA.” The answer was about fourteen hundred, slightly more than two per cent of the murders in the files they consulted. “Those are just the cases they were able to lock down with DNA,” Hargrove said. “And killers don’t always leave DNA—it’s a gift when you get it. So two per cent is a floor, not a ceiling.”
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