There is a wild story about a US serial killer who was a policeman. He was caught because in his role as a policeman he did a lengthy PSA on television on how to keep yourself safe from the serial killer, and several people he’d tried unsuccessfully to kill called in to the television station yelling THAT IS THE FUCKING SERIAL KILLER, I RECOGNIZE HIM! One of them, I think, had given him a minor injury fighting him off which he still had during the TV appearance.
It is hard to fathom how different the pre-internet era was, in terms of how difficult it was for information to diffuse through society and how that impacted things on a day-to-day basis.
Behind the Bastards did an episode on a serial killer that was working with the apartheid era police.
There is a wild story about a US serial killer who was a policeman. He was caught because in his role as a policeman he did a lengthy PSA on television on how to keep yourself safe from the serial killer, and several people he’d tried unsuccessfully to kill called in to the television station yelling THAT IS THE FUCKING SERIAL KILLER, I RECOGNIZE HIM! One of them, I think, had given him a minor injury fighting him off which he still had during the TV appearance.
It is hard to fathom how different the pre-internet era was, in terms of how difficult it was for information to diffuse through society and how that impacted things on a day-to-day basis.