The folly of counting bodies: Using regression to transgress the state of serial murder classification systems

In analyzing an offender's number of kills and motive the authors ignore the relationship between victim and attacker and the time period between murders. The authors discount thousands of serial homicide offenders due to the absence of information on formative events and disregard intent and markers associated with serial homicide, all to manufacture an inflection point and command the future direction of serial homicide offender research and apprehension efforts. This will curtail the foray of new researchers into an area rife with potential discoveries while also restricting efforts by law enforcement organizations to form task forces to intervene earlier in an offender's career.