The following interview is a fascinating and long one,

so we've broken it into two parts and released those parts one day apart.

Please be sure to listen to Part 1, which was released yesterday,

before listening to today's episode.

This series discusses homicide and serial murder.

Listener discretion is advised.

Music and serial murder. Listener discretion is advised. This is the fall line.

Last time, we introduced you to Inzo Yoxic.

He's the author of Killer Data, Modern Perspectives on Serial Murder.

Inzo is also the founder and director of the Atypical Homicide Research Group and one of the data scientists contributing to the

incredibly important work at MAP, the Murder Accountability Project. We've highlighted the work

of MAP before. If you'd like to learn more, you can listen to our episode entitled

Mapping Murder. Last episode, Inzo walked us through some of the findings he's presented in

killer data, a book I suggest to anyone with an interest in understanding the true state of

atypical homicide and serial murder in the United States.

In part one of this interview, we covered some major cultural myths regarding the, quote,

average serial killer, what has skewed our perceptions of serial killers, like narrow

studies and limit of scope, and what typology the field has moved beyond, like the concept of an organized

versus disorganized killer. In this half, we pick up with our discussion of the concept of the

genius serial killer. If you've seen Silence of the Lambs, you know exactly who I mean,

the archetypal clever murderer playing the long game with law enforcement.

While the figures we're presented with in real life aren't precisely Hannibal Lecter-level geniuses,

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