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45 Celebrities Who Have Killed People

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I ran into quite a few surprises.


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45 Celebrities Who Have Killed People
  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    wow. some were well known but others I had never heard of before now.
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  • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
    What a wholesome topic. Here's a list of 32 serial killers with high IQs.
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    • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
      Originally Posted by thunderbird View Post

      What a wholesome topic. Here's a list of 32 serial killers with high IQs.
      Serial killers are a different breed of killer. Intelligence is needed to cover up the crimes, and dispose of evidence. And so, they tend not to get caught until after several murders. Intelligence is different from mental stability.

      You can be quite intelligent, and still be insane. And serial killers generally are sociopaths. Their cerebellum isn't connected well to their mid brain. They simply don't connects emotionally to their crimes and victims.

      But they aren't any more intelligent that the general population. A group of janitors would give the same results. Some are intelligent, some aren't.

      Serial killers never interested me, but sociopaths do. Their thought process is fascinating to me.
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      • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
        Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

        Serial killers are a different breed of killer. Intelligence is needed to cover up the crimes, and dispose of evidence. And so, they tend not to get caught until after several murders. Intelligence is different from mental stability.

        You can be quite intelligent, and still be insane. And serial killers generally are sociopaths. Their cerebellum isn't connected well to their mid brain. They simply don't connects emotionally to their crimes and victims.

        But they aren't any more intelligent that the general population. A group of janitors would give the same results. Some are intelligent, some aren't.

        Serial killers never interested me, but sociopaths do. Their thought process is fascinating to me.
        Your analysis is well-reasoned and convincing, but that list was cherry-picked, so not representative of serial killers in general. The average IQ of serial killers who were caught is actually lower than the average of the general population. If averaged out with the ones who haven't been caught, it might be a different story. At any rate, calling them super smart has been a way to cover up shoddy police work. In Vancouver, serial killer Robert Pickton who murdered dozens of prostitutes is downright dim-witted. It is now a showcase of police incompetence studied by law-enforcement around the world in order to not repeat such stupidity.
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        • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
          Originally Posted by thunderbird View Post

          Your analysis is well-reasoned and convincing, but that list was cherry-picked, so not representative of serial killers in general. The average IQ of serial killers who were caught is actually lower than the average of the general population. If averaged out with the ones who haven't been caught, it might be a different story. At any rate, calling them super smart has been a way to cover up shoddy police work.
          That makes sense. And some are brain damaged. In fact, you could argue that serial murder is proof of brain damage. What fully functioning human would do those things?
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  • Profile picture of the author writeaway
    That's a rough theme on that first link. My pages weren't loading properly. Is that a WP theme?
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    • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
      Originally Posted by writeaway View Post

      That's a rough theme on that first link. My pages weren't loading properly. Is that a WP theme?
      BuiltWith Technology Lookup says it was built with J2EE framework, ie is massively java-heavily.
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