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Interesting question. Maybe the feeling of "loneness"? Or an isolationist feeling combined with lack of strong community? Or transience?
It seems like Florida gets a good amount of pedophiles. WHen I lived there, you heard of so many crimes like that, and drugs--I hope I don't get the Floridians mad at me...
Interesting question. Maybe the feeling of "loneness"? Or an isolationist feeling combined with lack of strong community? Or transience? It seems like Florida gets a good amount of pedophiles. WHen I lived there, you heard of so many crimes like that, and drugs--I hope I don't get the Floridians mad at me...
That's only because Florida is such a transient state..people moving in and moving out all the time
I don't think Floridians will get mad...
I never really took notice of most serial killings taking place in the Pacific Northwest..hmmmm...interesting
Yes it does rain there a lot - but it is beautiful. There are so many really depressing places in the U.S.
I am not so sure that people are anymore disconnected from their communities than any where else.
I have read that the level of education there is pretty high.
Lots of places in the US have woodsy areas, trails mountains...
The upper mid west, the Ozarks, Appalachia, PA.
I have NOTHING against the area - but I cannot help but notice this.
I suppose your referring to Ted Bundy and Gary Ridgeway?
Both totally opposite people. Ted Bundy went to the University of Washington and practiced law as well as helped campaign for the re-election of Governor Dan Evans. After winning Bundy was later appointed to the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Committee. Very smart,charismatic, good looking casanova. Problem was he liked to sneak into young college girls windows/doors and rape and strangle/beat them. This happened around the University district in Seattle. Check out Ann Rule's book it's a must if you like true crime. She was a crime reporter for the Seattle PD and was friends with Bundy, the two of them worked at a suicide prevention hotline center....imagine that?!
Gary Ridgeway worked a few miles from where I grew up, he painted Kenworth trucks for a living and to my knowledge was more of a recloose. He had a thing for female prostitutes and would pick them up on Pacific hwy (old strip leading from Seattle to Tacoma). He would pick them up drive down 272nd st. towards work and would rape and strangle them. He would either dispose of the bodies on 272nd or in and around the Green River...hence the term Green River killer. The 80's was strange for me with all of this going on, fishing the Green or riding my bike around the streets was a bit eary to say the least. Many thought Bundy was the only serial killer, but he lived in Florida and Colorado so dates didn't match up. I actually have friends that found bodies of Ridgeway's victims while riding their dirt bikes. Once more I rented an apt on a plot where one of the victims was found. This apt went on to win apt complex of the year in Washington...little did people know
I have read many of Ann Rule's books, including "Stranger Beside Me" about her time spent working with Bundy at a suicide hotline and the entire case.
There are more infamous serial killers from that region than those two.
Also other types of unusual crimes - a preponderance of it considering the population.
I mean Maine and New Hampshire are pretty remote and very cold and desolate in the winter and you do not hear about a lot of serial murderers or spree killers or any type of murders coming out of those states.
Maybe they have better cops who catch them. I would think that there are many serial killers that go uncaught. People have to notice that someone has disappeared, report it, then the cops have to realize that they aren't individual killings - probably not all serial killers make it as obvious as Criminal Minds make it seem.
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