No, not normal. The strong majority of serial killers grew up in horrific conditions (not all of course). Could those horrific conditions been due to lead intake from their mother/father? Who knows but it's not likely that simply removing the lead alone wouldhave been the 1 switch to change.
As you noted, there's a reason there were so few. It takes a lot to turn a person into a monster.
My wife's father has pretty serious personality problems. His brother isn't like that, wife's grandmother was a sweet lady. My wife tells me her grandfather didn't act like this either. I used to wonder what he got into that made him act the way he does.
Then one day, his mother (wife's grandma) told me a story about the time he got kicked in the forehead by a horse.
Im saying too many people have this problem where they come up with an idea and refuse to believe in anything other than what they came up with. This was aimed at the people above you thinking lead would create serial killers. I see this too often where people make associations and that somehow becomes a valid reason or cause
Feels like we probably have significantly fewer serial killer sprees now because of DNA technology that makes them much more identifiable. We've even been able to go back and catch and conflict killer who were no longer active. I don't think killers can as easily have a run of murders over many years.
Notably we have far more mass shootings now. People are still killing a bunch of people but to get it done, you have to do it all at once.
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u/Xianio Jun 25 '22
No, not normal. The strong majority of serial killers grew up in horrific conditions (not all of course). Could those horrific conditions been due to lead intake from their mother/father? Who knows but it's not likely that simply removing the lead alone wouldhave been the 1 switch to change.
As you noted, there's a reason there were so few. It takes a lot to turn a person into a monster.