Mixing some medieval history and possible murder today meets X, who was the world's first

serial killer?

Although the concept of a serial killer didn't have a name until the FBI gave it one, the

phenomenon of murder has clearly been around since, well, since we humans have been around.

For as long as we meet X, have walked the Earth I imagine we have on a regular basis,

killed one another.

No species on Earth is as good at killing as we are.

Once I checked, no other species had developed bombs, capable of killing hundreds of thousands

of people or millions in a matter of minutes.

We are at the apex of apex predators.

But who was the first among us to kill one person and then another and then another and

so on and not during a time of battle?

Not in defense of anything, but instead just because they enjoyed it, who was the first

to love murder so much they just couldn't stop or didn't want to stop.

I doubt we'll ever know the real answer to that.

I'm guessing it was someone who lived long before any of us learned how to write and

record anything out of people that we do know about historians often credit medieval

frances, Jill DeRae, with being the world's first serial killer, at least the first documented

one.

If he even was a serial killer, that classification is greatly debated.

We know for sure that Jill was a French nobleman, a brave knight and military leader, a guy

who before his final trial and execution seemed to have it all for someone living in the

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