The Typical Serial Killer

Radford University teamed up with the Florida Gulf Coast University to create a Serial Killer Database. The database is updated annually. The following information was last updated on September 6, 2014. These statistics were gathered from the examinations of 3, 873 serial killers.

In a section titled, A Problem With The Typical Profile, the database included only U.S. serial killers. The chart has six characteristics: male, white, mid-to-late twenties, white (male), and white (male, mid-to-late twenties). Almost all of the killers in this chart were male, just over half being white. Nearly a third of the serial killers were in their mid-to-late twenties. Almost half were simply white males. Just under 13% were white, male, and in their mid-to-late twenties.

For more information read the Radford University/FGCU Database here