Policeman's suicide ends 35 year French serial killer mystery

[Anotheruser02]

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FFS the universal language of woman hating and exploiting power.

I feel quite low today.

This is horrific.

How awful

I wonder what made him stop so suddenly. At the age of 35.

@ThisIsStartingToBoreMe

How awful

I wonder what made him stop so suddenly. At the age of 35.

It's not uncommon with serial killers that they will commit suicide.

@ThisIsStartingToBoreMe

How awful

I wonder what made him stop so suddenly. At the age of 35.

He was 69 but had been offending for 35 years

Christ.

Lobster that's really interesting.

The famous ones here I know about didn't.

Have you got any links etc? V interested to understand it more.

It's between about 5 and 10%, IIRC, I'm sure there is something on the internet about it.

Ok that makes sense. A small minority then.

Yes, but something like twice as high as the general population.

Sorry I don't get your point.

Being a serial killer is incredibly rare in the general population.

I'm not sure why you said about it not being uncommon.

Am I missing something?

Maybe easier to ask what point you were trying to make! That's probably more straightforward!

@LobsterNapkin makes perfect sense. Serial killers are not common. However, they are twice more likely to commit suicide than your average person.

No outrage in France ?

I do think our biggest predators are in positions of power: doctors, teachers, social workers, police , the church - these men are everywhere

He only took his own life because he thought he was about to get caught, so I would agree that it isn't really relevant.

Nah

They have more access etc

But loads of women and girls are raped abused etc by bog standard men all the time.

@ThisIsStartingToBoreMe

How awful

I wonder what made him stop so suddenly. At the age of 35.

I believe Jaycee Dugard confirmed the perp in her case never molested again after the birth of her second child. Found God, apparently. Didn't release her or her kids though.

Some serial killers will commit suicide either when they are caught and face trial or when they are in prison for a long sentence with no prospect of release. Have no figures for that but criminologists will know whether that's a pattern and there must be statistics somewhere.

Yup, outrage in France today

Headline is misleading. doesn’t ‘end the mystery’ for all of the cases. Confession / suicide note didn’t give specifics.

Hopefully DNA will be used to close some.

Awful.

I believe Jaycee Dugard confirmed the perp in her case never molested again after the birth of her second child. Found God, apparently. Didn't release her or her kids though.

I was reading about this, one of the criminologists said that although there had never been a survey done asking them, there were a few ideas based on specific examples. Sometimes they think they become afraid of getting caught, or have a close call. Some find other outlets for their issues. And they think for some it's age, either they are no longer physically robust or they become less driven by whatever makes them want to do it and perhaps more stable. There is some thought that hormonal changes might be part of it.

In this case as I understand it he'd been caught in a DNA sweep of all retired police officers who'd been in the right place at the right time in an attempt to solve these historic cases, and so he knew that conviction was inevitable as soon as they'd processed the results.

But since they'd assumed the perpetrator was a police officer all along I don't understand why it took so long to do systematic DNA testing.

We only have his word for it that he did stop.

I suppose though I can't see much advantage to him to lie at this point?