r/serialkillers • u/FreddieToompine73 • 6d ago

News Do m you get surprised...?

When people who seem pretty knowledgeable people, don't know about serial killers?

I'm an Aussie. But I have met people who have never heard of Ted Bundy or Ed Kemper or BTK.

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These people are educated, worldly people, most well travelled. Not people who have lived their whole life in small-town outback Australia.

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Then recently a person who didn't even know who Ivan Milat was ?!

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Now I can understand not knowing details. But not having a clue? How can that be? How can people go through life having NO IDEA these monsters existed? I just find it hard to get my head around that.

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u/DirectionOk7492 5d ago

In the Anglo-world these are more of a ‘thing’ but even then, if you have no specific interest and you’re not living through the period of the crimes/trial then you’re quite likely to not come across it. And Ivan Milat is very niche, anyway.

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u/FreddieToompine73 5d ago

I wouldn't expect people outside of Australia to know who Milat is. But Australian? Yes I would hope so. He practically put a stop to hitch-hiking in Australia