Welcome to 10-minute murder, brief and bingeable true crime.

My name is Joe. I'm the host, and thank you for joining today.

I was recently doing some reflecting, thinking about this past year, and then back to what we've all

been through over the last few years. And it got me thinking that our current time is so weird.

It's so strange right now.

Like nothing could pop up in the news that would surprise me, including an alien invasion.

Wouldn't surprise me at all.

But if you're near the same age as me and we've lived through the childhood, our childhoods were in the 80s and the 90s, it was a confusing and complicated time in life back then.

Like back in the 90s when the Looney Tunes characters were in and on nearly everything. You couldn't walk into a radio shack without seeing three people wearing a Taz or Bugs Bunny t-shirt.

It was weird, and Pizza Hut was trying to give away free pizzas if you just read some books.

So I put the time that we're living

in today into perspective and being serious for a moment about this, since the 1980s, there's been a

sharp decline in serial killing. Everything else has gone kind of bonkers, but police investigation

techniques have improved. There's been advancement in DNA collection and tracking

technology, and that's helped to catch killers before they have a chance to become serial.

So if you're looking for a bright side as to how crazy things seem to be right now, I think

that that is a shining example. And thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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