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Serial Killers by Peter Vronsky6/23/2023 ![]() In an interview with host Nahlah Ayed, the historian explains how the media and pop culture have shaped our fascination with serial killers. ![]() Anywhere men gathered barber shops, mechanics, waiting rooms you would see these magazines." And of course they're all celebrating this mutilation, torture and rape of female victims. "This was not under the counter material. They were called 'the sweats' because they use this type of paint that simulated the victims sweating in agony and the torture, as well," Vronksy explains in a 2019 lecture he delivered at Ryerson University in Toronto, called Serial Homicide: A Global Perspective. One genre was the so-called 'sweats' - men's adventure magazines. ![]() "There were all these genres of over-the-counter magazines, conventional magazines. ![]() And in trying to understand them, we've inevitably created a culture that sometimes even appears to celebrate them. Thanks to the mystery surrounding serial killers, much of what we know about them is based on press reports about their crimes with very little academic study - they have become somewhat mythologized in larger popular culture.įrom Jack the Ripper to the Golden State Killer, there is no shortage of media that looks into the history, psychology and crimes of these serial killers. It may appear they are a recent phenomenon but they go back centuries, at least the 1400s, according to Canadian historian Peter Vronsky. ![]() Serial killers are everywhere in today's pop culture - movies, books, documentaries and podcasts. ![]()
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