Where I Live Now

[dukealien]

Why do people never wear masks and sneak around real lowkey killing people in the dark like in the movies? Maybe humming a themesong.
A knife and a slow gait could probably tally up a larger body count of an unexpecting weeknight in residentia than people with their guns and ideas and months of planning.

Because it's not actually about killing (the same way rape isn't actually about sex) - it's about "look me!" and "go away!" in some personal but perversely stereotyped mix.  One every three or four years is plenty for a true serial killer.

See, for example, Mr. Crimo III's transparent gestures toward disguise.  And that he looks, fer Chrisake, as if he's had himself surgically altered to resemble a Guy Fawkes mask.