×
GreekEnglish

×
  • Politics
  • Diaspora
  • World
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Cooking
Saturday
12
Jul 2025
weather symbol
Athens 24°C
  • Home
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • World
  • Diaspora
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Mediterranean Cooking
  • Weather
Contact follow Protothema:
Powered by Cloudevo
> World

Why were there so many Serial Killers between 1970 – 2000 & where did they go?

The answer is manyfold - encompassing everything from sociological changes, to biology, to technology, to linguistics

Newsroom October 21 04:18

When Gil Carrillo joined the homicide division at the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department in the early Eighties, his future partner Frank Salerno was already something of a celebrity. He had recently collared the so-called Hillside Strangler, a.k.a. cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr., a serial killer duo who terrorized the L.A. area in the late Seventies, raping, torturing, and killing 10 women.

“When I met Frank; he was going through the trial for the Hillside Strangler,” Carrillo tells Rolling Stone. “I asked him about it and he said, ‘Well, that’s a once-in-a-career case.’ Then, two weeks later, we’re head-long into this.” “This” being the hunt for a serial killer the media had dubbed the Night Stalker — a home invader, rapist, and murderer who whipped Los Angeles and San Francisco into a terror that lasted from June 1984 to August 1985, when Carrillo and Salerno apprehended Richard Ramirez.

The veteran cops appear in the new Netflix documentary Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, directed by Tiller Russell. A grisly, gripping four-episode look into just how Ramirez was captured, the series highlights the popular corner of true-crime dedicated to serial killers, a much-investigated U.S. phenomenon that seems to be relegated to a period between the Seventies and early 2000s. Over those 30 years, Americans who previously left their doors unlocked and hitchhiked with abandon were suddenly caught in the sites of predators like Ramirez and the “Cannibal Killer” Jeffrey Dahmer, who did much of their hunting during the Eighties; and Keith Hunter Jesperson, a.k.a. the Happy Face Killer, a trucker who murdered at least eight women in the early Nineties. But by the early 2000s, the spate of serial killer stories seemed to peter out.

>Related articles

Russia: War-time censorship justified, says Kremlin

Another record for Bitcoin: It surpassed $118,000

Libya and Turkey strengthen their military cooperation – New agreement on training and support

See Also:

Celtic deity with ’80s mustache and hair discovered in England

Read more: Rolling Stone

Ask me anything

Explore related questions

#crime#culture#murderers#serial killers#usa#world
> More World

Follow en.protothema.gr on Google News and be the first to know all the news

See all the latest News from Greece and the World, the moment they happen, at en.protothema.gr

> Latest Stories

AADE seals three gas stations in Attica for two years – Tampering detected in fuel pumps and inflow-outflow software

July 12, 2025

Kastoria: Bear cub killed by firearm

July 11, 2025

Thirty years since the Srebrenica genocide – Thousands of Bosnians honor the victims of the Massacre

July 11, 2025

Melina Travlos: The protection of freedom of navigation is everyone’s duty

July 11, 2025

Plan for a closed facility in Crete – Kastelli, Heraklion is the most likely option – What was decided at the Ministry of Migration meeting

July 11, 2025

Russia: War-time censorship justified, says Kremlin

July 11, 2025

Gilfoyle posts Kourkoulis song before arriving as U.S. Ambassador to Greece – See Photo

July 11, 2025

Another record for Bitcoin: It surpassed $118,000

July 11, 2025
All News

> Greece

AADE seals three gas stations in Attica for two years – Tampering detected in fuel pumps and inflow-outflow software

Fines of up to €150,000 per station are pending

July 12, 2025

Kastoria: Bear cub killed by firearm

July 11, 2025

Gilfoyle posts Kourkoulis song before arriving as U.S. Ambassador to Greece – See Photo

July 11, 2025

Autopsies with AI and digital assistants – The Mourtzoukos and Pispirigou cases are transforming Forensic Services

July 11, 2025

Five changes accepted by the Ministry of Justice in the Code of Civil Procedure during meeting with the Judges’ and Prosecutors’ union

July 11, 2025
Homepage
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY COOKIES POLICY TERM OF USE
Powered by Cloudevo
Copyright © 2025 Πρώτο Θέμα