about the smile.
As far as the number of serial killers, I believe there are atleast 100 and possibly closer to 500. Here is my reasoning:
I think conservatively about 120,000 folks are reported missing every year in the United States alone (many missing person sites estimate higher numbers in the hundreds of thousands), but fortunately only 2 percent stay missing for more than 30 days. That number is still over 2,000 A YEAR!
AND if only 10% of that is serial killer related, then that's over 400 serial killer victims in the US a year.
These stats are relatively meaningless by themselves without anything to back them up, but I've found in my research that between one and two bodies a day (on average) are found in remote areas that obviously died under suspicious circumstances and are either never identified or their murders never solved. That is between 300 and 500 bodies a year that "could" atleast be serial killer related.
I have been trying to keep track of all these found bodies on my website:
http://NEWS.OneMissingPerson.org/and most of these news articles were found with google news alerts for "body found" (and from other missing person related groups I belong to) and I get (on average) five reports a day from google. There are probably a lot more I don't hear about.
Also, I have in my google and yahoo alerts with the keywords "skeletal remains" about 119+ news articles (since the beginning of this year alone!!! that I haven't gotten to yet) related to skeletal remains (most are found in remote areas - more are found during the winter and fall because that's when hunting season usually occurs around the country) that are practically impossible to determine how they died especially if they were strangled simply because one of the only ways to determine whether someone was strangled is to examine the hyoid bone and see if it is damaged. Unfortunately, the hyoid bone is one of the first bones to be destroyed or disappear (scavangers feasting on easy pickings) or simply fall off when the human body is reduced to its skeletal form.
Not to mention the (on average) 2,000 murders a year that go unsolved according to FBI stats.
That's atleast well over a thousand bodies (and/ or murders) that could be serial killer related, which could possibly mean anywhere from 50 to 500 serial killers as the average serial killer (those who have been caught anyway) has been found to kill (on average) anywhere from 2 to 10 victims a year.
In short, it's a problem that gets practically no attention which I am trying to rectify by posting here maybe 5% of the total alerts I get everyday. Part of the problem can be rectified by diverting drug and prostitution investigation and harrasment money to the violent crime departments of local LE agencies here and around the world,
Anyway, thanx for your comments.
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EDIT: grammar