Reddit mentions of The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy

Just want to shoot my mouth off here for a minute.

Incarcerated, Ted Bundy gave a number of interviews in the misguided hopes of being deemed a valuable contributor to law enforcement, and thus spared the death penalty. In several of these he went at length on the "hypothetical" origins of serial killers, and why they enjoyed such success in 1970s America and onwards.

One of his insights was society had become depersonalized, with communities disintegrating, and people traveling across the country, surrounded by strangers who didn't necessarily notice or care that someone was here one day, gone the next. While Bundy disregarded advances in law enforcement technique, it's also true many of those technologies and sciences emerged from high profile cases like Bundy's.

That's part of the nature of serial killers, being predators of populations requires vulnerable targets, or at some level society having a blind spot. The most prolific serial killers targeted so called victim populations- homeless, prostitutes, homosexuals, those society generally didn't address or concern itself with.

THe other part goes back to the nature of societies- Gladwell's seminal work makes a case for differences of culture between east and west dating back to agrarian roots-tight knit cultures of rice paddies developing societies intrinsically different than the labor intensive but individualistic trends that emerged in the feudal fields of Europe.

The consequences for these among predators is the nature of the victim pool-simply that in an individualistic, privacy minding and impersonal society, there is less watchfulness( bearing in mind generalities, not absolutes across all communities or ethnic groupings, but as broad strokes of cultural influence). What impact this may have for criminals preying on targets can probably be discerned from instances like Hong Kong's scarcity of serial killing.

TL;DR: Whether from tight knit community awareness, government crackdown on 'deviants' that catches would-be killers early in their development, social factors like Triad protectionism, or a greater sense of community vs western individualism that readily identifies problems with individuals relating to the group, Hong Kong is not prime real estate for budding psychopaths.

Only Living Witness

The Stranger Beside Me

You have to inform yourself.
If you dismiss "The Only Living Witness"
https://www.amazon.com/Only-Living-Witness-Serial-Killer/dp/1928704115 with actual interviews from Ted plus their own research which is brilliant, then too bad. Aynesworth also interviewed him for "Conversations with a Killer." Their work made Louise Bundy finally leave the FL courtroom and stop insisting her son was innocent.
If you scoff at Quantico, then you scoff at science and I can't help you.
Have a nice life. I gave you my references, if you can read a book and it occurs to you to check a birthday year with a year another event happens, that's not opinion.
So bye bye, I have better things to argue with illogical people.