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The response we give or receive from the media regarding serial killers differs from person to person depending on the environment they are in or were brought up in.
Violence is something that occurs everyday and everywhere no matter how much most of us wish it didn't. The media plays a large role in how we receive our information regarding serial killers and that is not just speaking about the news and newspapers. We here about serial killers in fiction books, magazines, movies and television sitcoms and references to them in some different types of music.
A serial murder is one that occur over a period of time at different times, whose motive is not for material gain and when there is usually no prior relationship between the victim and the offender. These types of murders usually take place in different geographical areas and the victims usually have a strange relationship to one another though they don't actually know each other like the homeless, prostitutes, homosexuals and......

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