Serial murder is what happens to innocents in California and coeds in the South. Serial murder-the often ritualistic, methodical murders of women (usually)-is just not something we really worry about in New York. Except for Joel Rifkin and especially David Berkowitz, whose killing spree still pisses New Yorkers off, we don’t grow too many Jeffrey Read More
Spike Lee’s Summer of Sam , from a screenplay by Victor Colicchio, Michael Imperioli and Mr. Lee, has little to do with the serial murderer Son of Sam, who finally turned out to be David Berkowitz, a Yonkers mailman, and even less with the police procedures in place during the hunt.
In a cable Read More
Why is it that the media and the culture have become such suckers for serial-killer schlock, the giddy hype and kitsch, the meretricious pseudo-science, and the half-baked books and movies that celebrate it all?
Could it be that the serial killer has become our Raskolnikov, the realization of some shared, secret dark-side fantasy of the Read More
