These are the things that you at home need not even try to understand. —Ernie Pyle, war correspondent Between the abduction and cannibal-mutilation murder of Grace Budd by Albert Fish in 1928 and the unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short, “the Black Dahlia,” in 1947, a generation of future “epidemic era” serial killers was born, including … Continue reading How the Great Depression and WWII Gave Birth to the Modern Serial Killer