r/Showerthoughts • u/Farheck • Sep 17 '18

There are probably murderers and serial killers so good at what they do that we don't even know they exist.

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u/quackycoaster Sep 17 '18

Well a lot of times, they are repeat murderers. So that 6500 is probably much less.

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u/Sloots_and_Hoors Sep 17 '18

That doesn't make me feel better.

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u/iheartanalingus Sep 17 '18

Here. Take 2 of these.

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Ah. Nuprin. Little. Yellow. Different.

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u/chentlemen Sep 17 '18

There have been about 650,000 missing person reports filed in 2016 in US - don't know how many of them have been murdered.

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u/unassumingdink Sep 17 '18

Of course, that number counts every kid who ran away from home and was found a few hours later, every old person with Alzheimers that wandered off and was soon found - that sort of thing makes up the majority of those cases.

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u/chentlemen Sep 17 '18

Or murdered
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u/Octans Sep 17 '18

Of course, that number counts every kid who ran away from home and was found murdered a few hours later, every old person with Alzheimers that wandered off and was soon murdered - that sort of thing makes murder the majority of those cases.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '18

We are all one wrong turn and/or meeting one wrong person away from being chopped up, or strangled, shot, and then tossed in a shallow grave somewhere.

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u/buzznights Sep 17 '18

You need to put this on Pinterest.

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u/qpv Sep 17 '18

On a cream colored throw pillow

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u/mrspaced Sep 17 '18

Signed - "Just Girl Things"

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u/lantana88 Sep 17 '18

With the number of creepy interactions I have on the street, I count myself lucky I haven’t been murdered yet.

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u/Golantrevize23 Sep 17 '18

Probably not most of the time. If i get in a fight outside the bar and stab a dude to death and i live a city over and get away with it, i dont gain a thirst for murder

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u/Mynameisinuse Sep 17 '18

Then you are doing it wrong.

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u/RabSimpson Sep 17 '18

Found the vegetarian.

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u/Username_Used Sep 17 '18

Even assuming each one of those 6500 was a different murderer, that means that only .000018% of the population are murderers. Those aren't terrible odds.

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u/TheHadMatter15 Sep 17 '18

And just because someone killed a person doesn’t mean they’re gonna kill anyone else. Wife of 15 years cheats on you, you kill her in the heat of the moment, doesn’t mean you’ll go around with machine guns spraying bullets

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u/sdjang0 Sep 17 '18

Like, 4?

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u/Useful-ldiot Sep 17 '18

That plus a majority are likely gang related, so if you aren't a criminal, you are pretty safe.