The term 'serial killer' was first used in this book, published in 1950, showing how the concept has evolved since then.
But this is what we have when we're loosely defining these things and the phrase serial killer comes to us first from a book called The Complete Detective published in 1950,
— Episode: CLASSIC: Serial Killers on the Loose
Episode: CLASSIC: Serial Killers on the Loose
The term 'serial killer' was first used in this book, published in 1950, showing how the concept has evolved since then.
But this is what we have when we're loosely defining these things and the phrase serial killer comes to us first from a book called The Complete Detective published in 1950,
Episode: CLASSIC: Serial Killers on the Loose
It was mentioned as the book where the phrase 'serial killer' was first used in 1950, though the concept was coined earlier in Germany.
But this is what we have when we're loosely defining these things and the phrase serial killer comes to us first from a book called The Complete Detective published in 1950.