Reader’s Digest UK – July 2019

READER’S DIGEST

“Serial killers in our country

overwhelmingly attack five groups

of people,” explains Wilson. “And

women dominate four of those

groups, the only group of men that

get regularly attacked are gay men.

We need to focus on misogyny,

homophobia of both sexes, women

over the age of 60 and sex workers.

We need to identify and expose what

makes them vulnerable, for those

who lack visibility, who lack a voice,

and who seem to have no agency in

our culture.”

end up bearing little relation to what
originally happened.”
Wilson is also wary of stories that
stray from the truth, but for a much
more unsettling reason. He believes
that when true accounts of crime
stray—even a little—from the facts,
it can be detrimental to the picture
painted, especially where serial
killers are concerned. He poses that
instead of focusing on the individual,
we should look at why somebody
might be led to kill and the groups
most at risk of being a target.

NOTORIOUS CRIMINALS WOULD HAVE THOUSANDS OF

SPECTATORS FLOCK TO THEIR EXECUTIONS

Depiction of a public execution

in London, late 18th century

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