User blog comment:CrashingCymbal/Are There Any Serial Killers/Murder Cases That You Have a Keen Interest In?/@comment-10950063-20140130235756

Jack the Ripper is interesting, because we will never know who it was. It's also insane how small of an operating area he had.

The Original Night Stalker/East Area Rapist is really scary. It's also unsolved and the guy is so insane it's hard to know where to start. His operating area was really large. He was really brazen, doing things including calling one of his victims or future victim, I can't remember, and attending townhall meetings about himself. They know he attended at least one, because during it someone claimed he would never let his wife be a victim of ONS. Guess who the next victim was? During one of his crimes, he apparently took the husband, had him get on all fours and set plates and such on his back. This way, if he tried to get up while the ONS was raping his wife, the ONS would hear the plates falling. There's also the police work aspect. The ONS was operating in two different police jurisidictions and it took them a long time to realize that. If they had been working together they might have been able to catch him.

BTK is interesting if only because the end of the story really gives insight to the hubris, psychopathy and addiction of serial killers. Dennis Rader murdered 7 people in three years, stopped for 8 years, killed two more, stopped for 5 years, murdered another. No one was ever close to catching him. 13 years later, he started sending letters and packages about his deeds. He was finally caught when he sent a floppy disk that contained dated linking back to his church.

I recently watched the incredible documentary "The Act of Killing," about the mass murders/ethnic cleansing committed by gangster and paramilitaries in Indonesia. It's insane that these men have never been prosecuted, how they show no remorse and how the Indonesian government still supports the paramilitary group and praises the criminals.