Serial killer on TV:
- extremely smart
- also, cunning like an animal
- charismatic but cold
‐ troubled childhood
- operatic sensibilities
- can only be caught by the greatest detective
Serial killer IRL:
- just a cop
- a regular cop
- cops won't stop him because he is a cop
There has been maybe 1 or 2 actual genius serial killers, most all of them got away with it for as long as they did due to cops being lazy fucking bastards when not violent fucking bastards
Leopold and Loeb aspired to be genius murderers (only killed one person) and they got caught because Leopold’s custom fancy-pants rich-boy glasses fell off his prissy face during the murder and he didn’t even notice he left them right by the body.
