It’s Time To Talk About The Bias Behind Murder and Disappearance Investigations
<p>A little less than a month ago, I learned through the grapevine about the existence of the Long Island serial killer, also known as LISK.</p>
<p>A quick Google search gave me the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_serial_killer" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">troubling facts</a>: between the years of 1996 and 2011, 11 bodies had been found (many on separate occasions) along a tiny stretch of land in Long Island, New York.</p>
<p>Only 7 of the bodies were ever identified. Their deaths were poorly investigated. And all but one of the victims were women.</p>
<p>And the clincher? They still have no idea who this person is. A serial killer who had been active for the better part of two decades. And could still be active now, for all we know.</p>
<p><em>Why haven’t I heard about this in the news? </em>I wondered. A serial killer targeting women for fifteen years, no motive and no indication that they’d stopped, and yet this wasn’t common knowledge?</p>
<p>The University of Idaho murders last fall made the news immediately. So did the semi-recent disappearances and murders of Mollie Tibbetts, Gabby Petito, and countless others. (And these weren’t even related to serial killers.)</p>
<p>Even way back in the 80s and 90s, Richard Ramirez, aka the “Night Stalker,” and Dennis Rader, aka the BTK Killer, made the news. Ted Bundy, too. Because people deserved to know.</p>
<p>So what was the deal with this one?</p>
<p>And then I realized why it hadn’t been more publicized:</p>
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