Not just TV shows in the 90s, but netflix documentaries and fictional shows about serial killers today. These seem to be insanely popular. Serial killers ar

Not just TV shows in the 90s, but netflix documentaries and fictional shows about serial killers today. These seem to be insanely popular. Serial killers are extremely rare, exceptionally few people will ever know somebody who knows somebody who knew a victim of one. Everybody today knows that serial killers exist, but most people only know it because they heard about it from mass media, not because they have some sort of personal experience with it. I think this surely leads people to overestimate the risk.