FUN FACTS from WIKIANSWERS - How Many Serial Killers are Women? Serial killers are not described by number of kills, rather, by the method and psychological factors that went into the kills. For example, ssgt. Giunta in afghanistan killed between 9 & 13 people in a 20min. period of time. By your definition, we should have him executed. Instead we gave him the congressional medal of honor. Son of Sam killed the same number of people but he was a serial killer. Most female serial killers are suffering from munchausen by proxy. The others are in almost always involved with male serial killers, or they kill men who remind them of their male abusers. Women make up approximately 51% of the earths population, they represent less then half of that percentile in murders. And less then half that percentile of serial killers. At any given time there are approximately 300 serial killers operating in the USA. Statistically speaking, only, about 10 of those are women. Almost all serial killers are are white males between 18 & 45 So most serial killer profiles begin with that group of people. That is unless the victims are children or men that died of poisoning or genital mutilation. Female serial killers comprise only 8% of all American serial killers. Furthermore, American female serial killers comprise 76% of female serial killers world-wide. The total for female serial killers is around 62 to 65. Contrary to the above information, Munchausen by proxy is one of the rarest conditions and makes up only a small percentage of total female serial killers. The FBI estimates that at any given time there may be up to 50 active serial killers.//
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