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Sons of Cain A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present

Peter Vronsky

From the author of Before the term was coined in 1981, there were no "serial killers." There were only "monsters"--killers society first understood as werewolves, vampires, ghouls and witches or, later, Hitchcockian psychos.

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The podcast hosts discussed this book, which explores the idea that economic downturns increase the probability of creating future serial killers.

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he believes that when there's economic downturn especially on a wide scale in any region or globally even or just in a town a the the probability of creating a future serial killer who is going throug...

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The podcast hosts discussed this book, which explores the idea that economic downturns increase the probability of creating future serial killers.

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he believes that when there's economic downturn especially on a wide scale in any region or globally even or just in a town a the the probability of creating a future serial killer who is going through this uh the economic downturn all the realities that you face when that's happening he believes that you increase the probability of creating serial killers and and in his opinion he wrote a book called sons of cane and in it he describes how because of the the financial crisis from 2007 2008 we are actually creating a new generation of serial killers or we have generated essentially a new uh season of serial killers that will emerge 10 20 years from now and he believes that that economic downturn at least in some way helped to create those serial killers

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