I knew it. I always remember hearing about how mentally gifted serial killers were, otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned it.

Even more so today being that information is at your fingertips and we have all the answers if we choose to look.

And Ki, you should have stuck by your convictions man. Don't accept other peoples answers for truth, dig a little deeper.

Not so fast.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra_cUTmQykc

Average IQ is 94.7 based on a study of over 2,000 serial killers. There's certainly quite a few very bright ones but there's also quite a few who don't have many lights on in the attic.

My whole point with bringing intelligence into the equation stems from the fact that most if not all serial killers have the mental capacity to allow their brain to put aside the remorse that comes with death. There's gotta be a special kind of intelligence that it takes to be able to put that remorse aside to continue on the murderous road that those guys fall under. I remember warching several interviews of serial killers where they were able to answer questions with a sense of intelligence in their answers.

That's why I think it'd be fascinating to be able to sit down with one and ask them questions about their life. They can verbally demonstrate their intelligence through words.

I suspect that the ones who get the most notice, and have the highest IQs, are probably the ones who are smarter than your average serial killer. They would be more likely to escape notice and go on to kill more people, and body count is a large decider for who gets the most press.

I think the way the killer does his business is another way they get more press. Especially if the press is able to label what the killer was famous for. I.e. Ted Bundy and females or Dahmer and homosexuals. But you make a good point regardless.

The more creative serial killers might have higher IQs I guess, but I don't know if more creative artists in general have higher IQs than less creative ones, so I don't know if that is a relevant criteria. And yeah, I guess I would describe serial killing as an art in a ****ed up sense. It's certainly not a science. *shrug*

I mentioned in my first post that I classify an interest in serial killers to be in the same league as having an interest in horror games and the like. So yes, you could potentially consider it an art in a really ****ed up kind of way.

I'd be interested in a book that evaluated the artistic sensibilities of serial killers. Would be one of those books like that autobiography of OJ Simpson that got banned. Just complete and total outrage but you can't not read it.

And who knows, maybe Jeffrey Dahmer's cannibalism is absolute poetry.

I'd read the **** out of something like that. It'd probably be gruesome and dark but it'd really open people's eyes to what a serial killer is capable of mentally. That's where my interest stems from when it boils down to the simpler things. I'm jealous of the people that get to interview killers as well as the people who get to analyze the brain chemistry after a killer has died. It must be mind blowing.

Over a 16 year span Gary Ridgeway killed 49 women (he admitted to killing twice that amount). He had an IQ of 82.

I don't think there's any steadfast profiles when it comes to serial killers.

Of course not, but I imagine a smart person is going to be better at avoiding authorities than a dumb person. In general of course.

For reals though. I don't think about being a serial killer, or murder (at least not when I'm not at work), or any particularly ****ed up ****, at least no more than would be considered in the acceptable range. But I do think about how it might be kinda nice in a messed up way to have that same kind of social status as a serial killer who's been caught. Yeah it must suck for everyone to hate you, but it's gotta be kinda freeing at the same time to have absolutely every expectation society ever had or will have for you removed. You don't have to worry about disappointing loved ones or people thinking less of you for doing something, cause it is now physically impossible for you to disappoint anybody more than you already have. I'm sure it sucks ass, but you are officially BELOW rock bottom, without even the possibility of going back up, so you can just... not give even the slightest **** anymore. There's gotta be some kind of freedom in that. You know, until the lethal injection.

Dude, you work at Burger King. You've already reached that place.

Unfortunately this is not true. My family still has some small degree of faith in me, though I do not know why. I might start havin' to eat some mother****ers to get them off my back.

Having goals is good. Regardless of the particulars.

Does your daughter have any ex-boyfriends you wouldn't mind falling off the face of the earth?

I have a brother in law that I wish to disappear.

There's never been a decent Irish Serial Killer.

I beg to differ sir.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army

Batty I highly recommend the podcasts Last Podcast on the Left and Sword and Scale. They, among others, satisfy my morbid interests and are equally well researched and ****ed up.

The IRA were/are a terrorist organisation that bombed, shot and murdered men, women, children, Catholics, Protestants, British, Irish.... Just about anybody that didn't believe in a United Ireland were fair game.
Although, a lot of people around the world might see them as some kind of ''freedom fighters'' they should have been over here when 500lb bombs were going off in town centres and they were lifting parts of burned bodies off the streets with shovels and putting them in plastic bags.
Or stopping vans full of workers, letting the Catholics go, then lining up the Protestants outside the van and shooting them all.

Down with Protestants!

EDIT: Didn't read your post that closely. Down with Catholics too!

:laughing:

You're dumb.

Sweet. Will check them out.

And the Jews! Don't forget the Jews.

Down with all everyone who isn't an atheist. ESPECIALLY those smug ass Buddhists.

Death to all who oppose us!

http://rubberslug.s3.amazonaws.com/u...iqudtchl_m.jpg

Dude, she's probably a bitch.

This forum has rules against spam, bitch.

Spam is disgusting, don't believe what the Hawaiians say.

:pimp:

Oh wait, it's no longer spam since you lost it in the divorce lol.

Ha.

You were married?

No. Batlord is just a dick.

Ah, shoulda just said break up you idiot.