Why are people so fascinated with serial killers_

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law Enforcement, Crime, True Crime, Military

4.4 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Why Our CULTURAL OBSESSION with Serial Killers is OUT of Control!Some names aren't just names... they’re warnings. They’re whispers of what humanity is capable of at its absolute worst. We're drawn to these stories, not because we admire the men in them, but because we can’t look away. It’s a morbid curiosity that pulls us in, a need to understand the minds of monsters who look just like us.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to police off the cuff real crime stories.
0:11.1	I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.
0:18.0	You know, when I watch Netflix as so many people across this nation, across this world
0:23.7	do, it seems there is a huge, huge infatuation now with serial killers. Inside Evil's Lair,
0:34.9	serial killer fascination. And it seems that the general public cannot get enough of it, you know.
0:43.4	There's at least 10 different shows that show on Ed Gein is on Netflix now.
0:50.1	And the fascination with serial killers is beyond cult-like almost, you know.
0:58.6	And we look at this man up on the screen, Jeffrey Dahmer, a real horrific character.
1:09.3	Richard Ramirez, no one as the Nightstalker, and they didn't even do a separate show on him.
1:16.9	But I've read that show, I followed it, I saw the Netflix special, real, real horrific guy, compare him to the devil.
1:34.6	And of course course BTK who has a very punchable face just looking at his face up on the screen and then this evil fat bastard the killer clown John Wayne Gacy
1:42.0	and the latest to join this fraternity of serial killers
1:47.2	is this man here who looks as evil as any of them, Rex Schueman, the alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer.
1:58.1	And then you have a man who was a little more attractive than most serial killers,
2:02.7	but his soul is as black as anyone else's, Ted Bundy. And it's just unbelievable how many people
2:12.9	are attracted to this. And again, we see Jeffrey Dahmer, who incidentally, folks, was murdered in prison.
2:23.0	Prison justice, you know, and Richard Ramirez, who died of cancer in prison. And here's a little
2:30.1	bit of a collage of serial killers, Manson Berkowitz, to name a few. Just absolutely
2:38.6	horrific. And one of a new, would have been a new addition had he not been caught early in
2:44.0	his career, is this evil man that we all know as Brian Coburger. and not a serial killer, a mass killer.
2:55.7	Because according to the FBI, the definition of a serial killer is two separate incidents
3:03.1	with time in between. So it's two or more incidents makes you a serial killer.
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