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In the same spirit that I'm against publicizing terrorism and mass shooting any more than strictly necessary to convey relevant facts to the public, I would prefer that approach be taken with medical serial killers. Of note, these killers aren't particularly rare, with Wiki cataloguing 62 of them and some are quite prolific, such as Harold Shipman. Women are overrepresented as medical serial killers relative to their typical numbers among known serial killers. Many of these people appear completely normal, other than the part where they enjoy the power of life and death and murder dozens or hundreds of vulnerable people that trusted them. Sensational journalism around this is apt to cause more problems than it solves, with copycat murders, fear of medical personnel, and false accusations from people that are upset that a family member died.
Nah, they made a movie out of Aileen Wournos, whose crimes would be unremarkable in scope or brutality for a male serial killer. Most female serial killers are poisoners or accomplices though, so their stories just aren't as exciting to most people as more lurid tales.
I think Aileen Wournos is a perfect example of the "women are wonderful" effect. Even in the case of a literal serial killer, we have to contrive reasons her victims had it coming.
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Can you explain what you mean by this? The quick search I just did says women make up approximately 3-5% of known serial killers, which suggests the opposite of overrepresentation to me.
Oh, sorry, I mean that among medical serial killers, there is a higher percentage than the 3-5% among serial killers. I'll update for clarity.
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