[Serious] How come serial killers are predominantly white males?

Uh .. ok. Some google-fu yields a quick list.

  1. Matthew Emanuel Macon (Murdered and Raped 5 White Women in Lansing)
  2. Jimmie Reed (Murdered his wife and his 2 month old daughter and set them on fire)
  3. Shelly Brooks (Murdered 7 prostitutes in Detroit Cass Corridor)
  4. Justin Blackshere (Stabbed two white cooks at Cheli’s Chili downtown Detroit)
  5. Jervon Miguel Coleman (Murdered three people.)
  6. Donell Ramon Johnson (Murdered a mother and a daughter)
  7. Brian Ranard Davis (6 women known murdered)
  8. Paul Durousseau (Seven women)
  9. Mark Goudeau “The Baseline Killer” (Eight women and a man in 2005-2006)
  10. Coral Eugene Watts (11 women in Texas & 1 in Michigan)
  11. Anthony McKnight (Five girls and young women)
  12. Derrick Todd Lee (8 Women)
  13. Charles Lendelle Carter (4 known murders; admits to ‘hunting’ Atlantans for 15 years!)
  14. The Zebra Killings (71 White people)
  15. Chester Turner (L.A.s most prolific killer 12 women killed.)
  16. Lorenzo J. Gilyard (Kansas City, MO.—13 victims)
  17. Eugene Victor Britt (Gary, IN.–3 known murder/rapes.)
  18. Reginald and Jonathan Carr (The Wichita Massacre–6 Whites murdered)
  19. Ray Joseph Dandridge and his uncle, Ricky Gevon Gray (Richmond, VA.–Murdered 7 people in 7 days, including an entire White family.)
  20. The Tinley Park Murderer (Suspect hasn’t been found but has been described as black – murdered 5 women in a store.)
  21. Henry Louis Wallace (Raped and strangled 5 women to death.)
  22. Charles Johnston (Murdered 3 unarmed white men in hospital)
  23. Craig Price (Brutally murdered 3 women)
  24. Harrison Graham (Brually Murdered 3 women)
  25. Charles Lee “Cookie” Thornton (Murdered 6 Whites at the Kirkwood, MO. city council. )
  26. & 27. Darnell Hartsfeld & Romeo Pinkerton (Abducted and Murdered 5 from a restaurant)
    28 &29. John Allen Muhammad & Lee Boyd Malvo (Sniped 11 people from a car in DC, 9 died.)
  27. George Russell (3 women, WA state)
  28. Timothy W. Spencer (5 killed, Arlington, VA and Richmond, VA)
  29. Elton M. Jackson (12 gay men killed, Norfolk, VA area)
  30. Carlton Gary (3 killed in Columbus, GA)
  31. Mohammed Adam Omar (16 women, Yemen. Omar is Sudanese.)
  32. Kendall Francois (8 women, Poughkeepsie, NY and surrounding areas.)
  33. Terry A. Blair (8 women, Kansas City area)
  34. Wayne Williams (33 many of them children!, Atlanta, GA)
  35. Vaughn Greenwood (11 killed in LA)
  36. Andre Crawford (10 killed in Chicago – southside)
  37. Calvin Jackson (9 killed possibley more in NY)
  38. Gregory Klepper (killed 8, Chicago – southside)
  39. Alton Coleman (Killed 8 in the Midwest)
  40. Harrison Graham (killed 7+ in N. Philadelphia)
  41. Cleophus Prince (6 killed in, San Diego
  42. Robert Rozier (7 killed in, Miami)
  43. Maurice Byrd (killed 20 + in St. Louis)
  44. Maury Travis (17 and rising, St. Louis and possibly also Atlanta)
  45. Hulon Mitchell, a.k.a. Yahweh Ben Yahweh (killed 20+ in Florida)
  46. Lorenzo Fayne (killed 5 children in East St. Louis, IL)
  47. Paul Durousseau, (killed 6, two of which were pregnant women, Jacksonville, FL; Georgia.)
  48. Eddie Lee Mosley (killed 25 to 30 women, south Florida)
  49. Henry Lee Jones (killed 4 in, south Florida; Bartlett, TN)
  50. Richard “Babyface” Jameswhite (15 killed in, New York; Georgia.)
  51. Donald E. Younge, Jr. (killed 4), East St. Louis, IL; Salt Lake City, UT.
  52. Ivan Hill (killed 6 in Los Angeles area).
  53. Michael Vernon (Bronx, NY. Killed at least seven people – )
  54. Chester Dewayne Turner (12 women killed in, Los Angeles)
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