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Kodirova, Zaynab Bakoevna. "Mystery and suspense in The ABC Murders." International Journal on Integrated Education 3, no. 1 (February 3, 2020): 186–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.31149/ijie.v3i1.313.

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The ABC Murders is a novel about a serial murderer who kills his victims in an alphabetical order. What seems as actions of a murderous maniac is, however, a carefully elaborate murder plan whose motive is completely different from alleged motive. The ABC Murders is an atypical story of Agatha Christie. Murders in her novels are usually committed in private places where readers soon know everybody who could be a murderer. However, Franklin Clarke, a murderer in this novel, appears for the first time in the middle of the story. Murders are done in public places and victims seem to have nothing in common except for the fact that they are killed in an alphabetical order. Moreover, the murderer is not so much the least likely suspect as never suspected at all

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Mastronardi, Vincenzo, and Giovanni Neri. "Serial murders: criminological profiles." Rivista di Psicopatologia Forense, Medicina Legale, Criminologia 22, no. 1-2-3 (December 27, 2017): 22–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/psyco.2017.9.

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The present work embraces multiple aspects related to the theme of serial murder, which is essentially addressed by a criminological and personological perspective. Attention will be focused first on the serial killer figure, which will analyze both the intrapsychic peculiarities and the most intrinsic motivations behind the homicidal action as well as the more technical and specific aspects of the modus operandi and the signature that convey this kind of offenders. At the same time, a victimological overview will be developed, focusing on the preferential victims in this delinquent mode. The article will also highlight a categorization of serial killings based on the motive, as well as different classifications of the major types of serial killers identified by multiple authors. Finally, criminal profiling will be analyzed, deepening the role of the profiler in investigations and outlining the presumed personality of the offender, thus circumscribing the field of potential investigators with particular reference to US reality. ---------- Il lavoro qui presentato abbraccia molteplici aspetti relativi al tema dell’omicidio seriale, che viene essenzialmente affrontato da una prospettiva criminologica e personologica. L’attenzione, infatti, si concentrerà inizialmente sulla figura del serial killer, di cui saranno analizzate sia le peculiarità intrapsichiche sia le motivazioni più intrinseche alla base dell’azione omicidiaria, nonché gli aspetti più tecnici e specifici quali il modus operandi e la firma, che connotano questo tipo di autori di reato. Parallelamente verrà sviluppata una panoramica vittimologica, con focus sulle vittime preferenziali in questa modalità delittuosa. L’articolo porterà inoltre alla luce sia una categorizzazione degli omicidi seriali in base al movente, sia diverse classificazioni dei principali tipi di serial killer individuati da più autori. Infine si parlerà di criminal profiling, e sarà approfondito il ruolo che il profiler assume nelle indagini, delineando la presumibile personalità del reo, e circoscrivendo così il campo dei potenziali indagati, con particolare riferimento alla realtà statunitense. ---------- El trabajo presentado aquí abarca múltiples aspectos relacionados con el tema del asesinato en serie, que se aborda esencialmente desde una perspectiva criminológica y personológica. De hecho, la atención se centrará en la figura del asesino en serie, que analizará las peculiaridades intrapsíquicas y los motivos más intrínsecos de la acción homicida, así como aspectos más técnicos y específicos, como el modus operandi y la firma, que transmiten este tipo de delincuentes. Al mismo tiempo, se desarrollará un panorama vistimológico centrado en las víctimas preferenciales en este modo delincuente. El artículo también destacará una categorización de asesinatos en serie basados en el motivo, así como varias clasificaciones de los principales tipos de asesinos en serie identificados por múltiples autores. Finalmente, se tratará sobre la caracterización delictiva, y se profundizará el papel que el perfilador tomará en la investigación, delineando la presunta personalidad del delincuente y circunscribiendo así el campo de investigadores potenciales, con referencia particular a la realidad estadounidense.

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Edelstein, Arnon. "Cooling-Off Periods among Serial Killers." Journal of Psychology & Behavior Research 2, no. 1 (December 30, 2019): p1. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/jpbr.v2n1p1.

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Theory and empirical research in criminology have paid less attention to intermittency in offending, that is, the brief lapses and sporadic episodes of crime that occur at sometimes unpredictable intervals (Piquero, 2004). This is mainly due to the problem of defining this phenomenon in a common operational way that can be tested empirically. This has thus led to its abandonment in most contemporary definitions of serial murder (Osborn & Salfati, 2014). Most up-to-date definitions have recognized the fact that serial murders are committed as discrete events (Adjorlolo & Chan, 2014). While psychological, sociological, and geographical theories of serial murder can be used to explain cooling-off periods, none of these theories have, thus far, been used in an empirical study. This article examines the phenomenon of cooling-off periods in relation to serial murder. Although definitions of serial murder have changed over the years, there is a consensus that between every two murders there must be a cooling-off period (Homant & Kennedy, 2014; Morton & McNamara, 2005). Unlike previous research, our study, which is based on the Encyclopedia of Serial Killers (Newton, 2005) found that the longest cooling-off period is between the first and the third murders (i.e., a series). We offer some theoretical psychological explanations for this pattern, although we were unable to study it empirically. We conclude that it is less important how different scholars define cooling-off periods; the important thing is that this phenomenon exists and has meaning for understanding, profiling, and even forecasting the time of the next murder.

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Перепелиця, М. М. "ОПЕРАТИВНО-РОЗШУКОВА ПРОТИДІЯ СЕРІЙНИМ УБИВСТВАМ, ВЧИНЮВАНИМ СЕКСУАЛЬНИМИ МАНІЯКАМИ." Наукові праці Національного університету “Одеська юридична академія” 14 (May 23, 2019): 347–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.32837/npnuola.v14i0.345.

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У статті проаналізовано особливості оперативно-розшукової протидії серійним убивствам, які вчиняються сексуальними маніяками. Наведено визначення серійного вбивства та класифікацію осіб, які їх вчиняють. Охарактеризовано типову поведінку сексуальних маніяків, надано їх психологічний портрет. Запропоновано комплекс заходів, які потрібно вживати оперативним підрозділам для протидії серійним убивствам. Проаналізовано відповідні попереджувальні механізми оперативно-розшукового характеру. Обґрунтовано потребу в додаткових функціях аналітичних підрозділів щодо протидії серійним сексуальним убивствам. In the article features are analyzed of operatively-search counteraction of serial murders, committed by sexual maniacs. The meaning of serial murder and classification of persons which are committed them is resulted. The typical conduct of sexual maniacs, their psychological portrait, is described. The complex of measures which must be carried out by operative subdivisions for counteraction ot serial murders is ottered. The proper preventive mechanisms of operatively-search character ore analyzed. The necessity of additional functions for analytical subdivisions is grounded on counteraction of serial sexual murders.

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Wattis, Louise. "Revisiting the Yorkshire Ripper Murders." Feminist Criminology 12, no. 1 (July 24, 2016): 3–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557085115602960.

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Between 1975 and 1980, 13 women, 7 of whom were sex workers, were murdered in the North of England. Aside from the femicide itself, the case was infamous for police failings, misogyny, and victim blaming. The article begins with a discussion of the serial murder of women as a gendered structural phenomenon within the wider context of violence, gender, and arbitrary justice. In support of this, the article revisits the above case to interrogate police reform in England and Wales in the wake of the murders, arguing that despite procedural reform, gendered cultural practices continue to shape justice outcomes for victims of gender violence. In addition, changes to prostitution policy are assessed to highlight how the historical and ongoing Othering and criminalization of street sex workers perpetuates the victimization of this marginalized group of women.

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Sane, Mandar R., Anand B. Mugadlimath, Jamebaseer M. Farooqui, Anand B. Janagond, and Pradeep K. Mishra. "Serial murder: An unusual stereotype." Medico-Legal Journal 85, no. 4 (February 13, 2017): 190–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0025817217693129.

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Serial murders attract attention from the media, mental health experts, academia, and the general public. We present a case of serial murders that took place in a limited area and which caused public anxiety and anguish in central India. All the victims were homeless beggars, who were bludgeoned to death (crush injury). Individual murders were initially investigated by different police stations; fortunately, since they sent all the bodies to a common autopsy centre, a forensic pathologist was able to link all the cases, the first person to do so. This emphasises the need for sharing information among police stations and autopsy centres.

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Reavis, James A. "Serial Murder of Four Victims, of Both Genders and Different Ethnicities, by an Ordained Baptist Minister." Case Reports in Psychiatry 2011 (2011): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/163403.

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A case of a 61-year-old African-American male who sexually assaulted and murdered four individuals, of different ethnicities and both genders, is reported. The subject additionally engaged in sexual activity with each victim postmortem. Each murder is reviewed in detail, and the subjective state of the offender during the murders is commented upon. Psychological test data are reviewed. The subject met criteria for several Axis I disorders, including Bipolar I Disorder, Pedophilia, and Sexual Sadism, and met criteria for Axis II diagnoses of Narcissistic and Antisocial Personality disorder. He was additionally classified as a Psychopath, which, in combination with his Sexual Sadism, general psychiatric state, and exquisite sensitivity to humiliation, led to his decision to murder.

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García-Baamonde, María Elena, Macarena Blázquez-Alonso, Juan Manuel Moreno-Manso, Eloísa Guerrero-Barona, and Mónica Guerrero-Molina. "Youth Serial Killers: Psychological and Criminological Profiles." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 9 (April 28, 2022): 5359. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095359.

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Serial murder is a specific type of violent crime that falls into the crime category of multicide. According to the nomenclature of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Violent Crime Classification Manual and Academic Researchers for the Classification of Violent Crimes, most serial killers are adults. However, serial murder is also committed by young people, although to a lesser extent. Young serial killers are a topic of relevance in areas such as psychology, criminology, and the justice system. Given that the study of the variables that could be the basis of such multicide criminality is not conclusive, the need for further research is evident. The homicides perpetrated by children and young people point to a social panorama that is alarming due to their young age. This issue is prevalent enough to conduct a review. The performed review concludes the importance of psychosocial factors to better understand the process by which children and young people commit crimes as serious as serial murders. The scope of the problem of serial murders perpetrated by minors is controversial because it often depends on how the number of real cases is counted. Although official statistics indicate the low prevalence of juvenile serial killers, childhood is a period in which antisocial behaviour can have its beginning. Some authors consider that it is not uncommon for the first murder of this type to occur in adolescence. It is important to consider psychopathy as an influential factor in the various forms of serial criminal conduct committed by children and young people. The research works consulted provide evidence of the special relevance of psychopathy in the generation of serious juvenile delinquency.

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Пимакова, Ольга Геннадьевна, and Валерия Руслановна Волкова. "Criminological characteristics of serial murders." Вестник Московской академии Следственного комитета Российской Федерации, no. 1(31) (March 25, 2022): 96–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.54217/2588-0136.2022.31.1.013.

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Феномен серийных убийств на протяжении последних ста лет привлекает особое внимание ученых всего мира, в том числе в области судебной психиатрии, психологии, криминологии, виктимологии и других наук. Данные преступления всегда признаются резонансными, так как характеризуются особой жестокостью, агрессией и держат общество в страхе. Отсутствие развернутых характеристик серийных убийств подчеркивает их высокую степень латентности. Цель статьи - анализ и описание свойств, закономерностей, причин и условий совершения преступлений данного характера, а также свойств личности преступника. Методологическую основу исследования составляет диалектический метод научного познания, отражающий взаимосвязь теории и практики. При подготовке работы использовались также следующие частнонаучные методы: биографический - изучение личностных качеств серийных убийц, статистический анализ - оценка количественно-качественных признаков серийных преступлений, анализ документов - использование информации, зафиксированной на бумажном и электронном носителе. В статье рассматриваются вопросы криминологической характеристики серийных убийств: анализируется понятие серийных убийств, рассматриваются количественно-качественные показатели, определяются основные детерминанты, изучается виктимологический аспект. The phenomenon of serial murders over the past hundred years has attracted the special attention of scientists around the world, including in the field of forensic psychiatry, psychology, criminology, victimology and other sciences. These crimes are always recognized as resonant, as they are characterized by special cruelty, aggression and keep society in fear. The lack of detailed characteristics of serial kills emphasizes their extremely high degree of latency. The purpose of the article is to analyze and describe the properties, laws, causes and conditions of committing crimes of this nature, as well as the properties of the person of the offender. The methodological basis of the study is the dialectical method of scientific knowledge, which reflects the relationship between theory and practice. The following private scientific methods were also used: biographical - the study of the personal qualities of serial killers, statistical analysis - the assessment of quantitative and qualitative signs of serial crimes, document analysis - the use of information recorded on paper and electronic media. The authors consider issues of criminological characterization of serial murders: the concept of serial murders is analyzed, quantitative and qualitative indicators are considered, the main determinants are determined, the victimological aspect is studied.

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Ryan, Bill, and Richard Walter. "Serial murders in Nowra, Australia." Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine 5 (March 1998): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1353-1131(98)90301-7.

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Munster, Ann. "Serial murders and their victims." Journal of Criminal Justice 20, no. 4 (1992): 373–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0047-2352(92)90022-2.

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DeHart, Dana D., and John M. Mahoney. "The Serial Murderer's Motivations: An Interdisciplinary Review." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 29, no. 1 (August 1994): 29–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/75bm-pm83-1xee-2vbp.

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A serial killer is defined as an individual who murders two or more victims over an extended period of time, ranging from days to years, with the crimes often being sexually motivated. Although there is a growing popular emphasis on the phenomenon, there is a paucity of rigorous research in the area. The present article reviews existing motivational theories of serial murder and proposes additional explications from a range of disciplines. Suggestions for future research are presented and integrational approaches are encouraged.

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Makca, Cemalettin, Erol Yıldırım, and Bulent Şam. "Perpetrator and victim profile on serial murders." Turkish Journal of Forensic Medicine 35, no. 3 (2021): 186–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.5505/adlitip.2021.53765.

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Layder, Derek. "Serial Murder: Power, Control and Social Domains." Journal of Forensic, Legal & Investigative Sciences 9, no. 3 (October 19, 2023): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.24966/flis-733x/100084.

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Malanchuk, P. M., and O. I. Datsenko. "Forensic Characteristic of the Methodic of Serial Murders." Legal horizons 19, no. 6 (2017): 49–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/legalhorizons.2017.i6.p49.

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Davydov, Artur Borisovich. "Determination of motive of serial invaders as a stage of serial murders investigation." Humanitarian, no. 2 (3) (May 5, 2017): 29–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.21661/r-130030.

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Mondal, Subarna. "Dead but not gone: Female body, surveillance and serial-killing in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy." Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook 17, no. 1 (November 1, 2019): 85–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/nl_00007_1.

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Abstract Alfred Hitchcock in Psycho (1960) makes the corpse of an ordinary woman both an object of surveillance and a source of active watching. Mrs Bates and Marion in Psycho, Brenda and Babs in Frenzy (1972) may be seen as predecessors to the series of dead women figuratively staring back in films such as The Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991) and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tykwer, 2006). The corpses do not merely offer themselves up as ciphers to be decoded. They reveal the lack in the perpetrators. Hitchcock's Frenzy relies on female bodies for clues to the murders. Hitchcock plays the vital role of bringing about a transition in the way in which women's bodies are to be treated in films, a transition from bodies shrouded by mist and darkness of the noirs to the exhibitionism of naked corpses in brightly lit settings. This article shows that abandonment of the usual tropes of visual impediments such as darkness and fog in Hitchcock's later films suggests a continually developing process of urban surveillance that aids in dehumanizing the victims. Further the post-murder masculinist investigative gaze forces a kind of mock-life on the victims through the relentless search of a killer's live signs on their dead flesh.

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Choo, Tae Myung, and Young-Shik Choi. "Defining and Explaining Serial Murders in the United States." Korean Journal of Legal Medicine 44, no. 1 (2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.7580/kjlm.2020.44.1.1.

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Rothwell, Bruce R., William Haglund, and Thomas H. Morton. "Dental identification in serial homicides: the Green River Murders." Journal of the American Dental Association 119, no. 3 (September 1989): 373–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.14219/jada.archive.1989.0059.

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이봉한. "The Theme and Characteristics of Serial Murders in Korea." Korean Journal Of Criminology 21, no. 2 (December 2009): 217–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.36999/kjc.2009.21.2.217.

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Williams, D. J. "Is It Time to Revisit the Definition of Serial Homicide? New Evidence and Theory." Forensic Sciences 3, no. 1 (March 6, 2023): 120–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/forensicsci3010010.

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Historically, serial homicide has been defined in various ways by experts. Recently, there have been renewed efforts to arrive at a consensus definition, yet these efforts have not yet been resolved. At the heart of the controversy appears to be the prioritization of either qualitative definitional features, such as offenders’ intentions and motives, or more observable quantitative features, specifically a minimum threshold of completed murders. The present technical note briefly summarizes this controversy before considering new empirical and theoretical research developments. These developments support a definition that includes a three-victim minimum threshold of forensically linked murderers by the same person(s), occurring in separate events over time, wherein a primary motive is often personal gratification (leisure experience).

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Gill, Richard D., Norman Fenton, and David Lagnado. "Statistical Issues in Serial Killer Nurse Cases." Laws 11, no. 5 (August 23, 2022): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/laws11050065.

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We study statistical aspects of the case of the British nurse Ben Geen, convicted of 2 counts of murder and 15 of grievous bodily harm following events at Horton General Hospital (in the town of Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK) during December 2013–February 2014. We draw attention to parallels with the cases of nurses Lucia de Berk (the Netherlands) and Daniela Poggiali (Italy), in both of which an initial conviction for multiple murders of patients was overturned after the reopening of the case. We pay most attention to the investigative processes by which data, and not just statistical data, is generated; namely, the identification of past cases in which the nurse under suspicion might have been involved. We argue that the investigation and prosecution of such cases are vulnerable to many cognitive biases and errors of reasoning about uncertainty, exacerbated by the fact that fact-finders have to determine not only whether a particular person was guilty of certain crimes, but whether any crimes were committed by anybody at all. The paper includes some new statistical findings on the Ben Geen case and suggests further avenues for investigation. The experiences recounted here have contributed to the writing of the handbook Healthcare Serial Killer or Coincidence? Statistical Issues in Investigation of Suspected Medical Misconduct, Royal Statistical Society, London, 2022.

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Dogra, T. D., Antoon A. Leenaars, R. K. Chadha, Mehta Manju, Sanjeev Lalwani, Mamta Sood, David Lester, Anupuma Raina, and C. Behera. "A Psychological Profile of a Serial Killer: A Case Report." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 65, no. 4 (December 2012): 299–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/om.65.4.d.

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Serial killers have always fascinated society. A serial killer is typically defined as a perpetrator who murders three or more people over a period of time. Most reported cases of serial killers come from the United States and Canada. In India, there are few reported cases. We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first Indian case in the literature. The present case is of a 28-year-old man, Surinder Koli. The Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delphi handled the forensic study. We present a most unique psychological investigation into the mind of a serial killer.

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SHAMURZAEV, T. T., and R. G. ARDASHEV. "Prompt disclosure of serial murders as an indicator of professionalism." EURASIAN LAW JOURNAL 6, no. 157 (2021): 374–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.46320/2073-4506-2021-6-157-374-376.

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NORVELL, NANCY K., CAROL E. CORNELL, and MARIAN C. LIMACHER. "Emotional and Coping Responses to Serial Killings The Gainesville Murders." Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 181, no. 7 (July 1993): 417–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00005053-199307000-00003.

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McLean, Lesley, and Jenny Wise. "Charles Manson and his Family: ‘Human monsters, human mutants’." Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 11, no. 1 (December 1, 2022): 179–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ajpc_00058_1.

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Joan Didion famously described the 1960s as ending abruptly on 9 August 1969 when word spread of the murders of seven people including Hollywood actor Sharon Tate. Fifty years on and the ‘Manson murders’ remain a focal point of interest in American popular culture and media. Netflix’s recent true-crime drama Mindhunter (2017–19) and Quentin Tarantino’s Once upon a Time in Hollywood () represent but two popular examples invoking the crimes. What is consistent across most popular renderings of the murders is the representation of the Family, and of their leader Charles Manson especially, as monstrous, warranting investigation. Utilizing both Jeffrey foundational text ‘Monster culture (seven theses)’ and Natasha Mikles and Joseph Laycock’s () ‘Five further theses on monster theory and religious studies’, this article examines the creation and representation of Charles Manson as a serial killer, a cult leader, but especially as a monster, in the popular culture context.

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Lebedeva, Irena V. "Review of the Book “Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myths and History”." Corpus Mundi 4, no. 1 (July 10, 2023): 110–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.46539/cmj.v4i1.80.

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Serial killers have been a popular topic in literature for centuries, appearing in works of fiction, non-fiction, and even poetry. In literature, serial killers often represent the dark side of human nature, and their stories often explore the depths of depravity and the psychological motivations behind their heinous acts. Examples of serial killers can be found throughout history and mythology. With all that the public’s attention is usually focused on the serial murders of the latest decades, with the historical cases still generally remaining in the obscure. The reason for that lack of publicity is that serial killers in antiquity are difficult to identify, because the concept of serial killing is a relatively modern one. One of the pleasant exceptions is a book by Debbie Felton “Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myths and History” published by University of Texas Press, 2021, 235 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4773-2357-1 (paperback edition). This article reviews the book and comments on its contents and style.

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Bessonov, Aleksey. "Artificial Intelligence against Serial Offenders." Artificial societies 18, no. 3 (2023): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207751800027535-7.

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The article deals with the use of artificial intelligence algorithms in the investigation of serial crimes committed for sexual reasons, including murders. Based on a database of 1100 serial crimes (Chikatilo, Popkov, Makarenkov, etc.), the author has built their digital model containing information about their typical features and regular relationships between them. Based on this digital model, using artificial intelligence methods, it is possible to build a search portrait of a serial offender, establish a connection between unsolved crimes for seriality and identify the involvement of persons previously prosecuted for similar acts. In working with the data, a number of artificial intelligence algorithms were used: logistic regression, decision trees, random forest, gradient boosting, clustering, neural networks. The results of the study allowed us to draw conclusions about the possibility of using artificial intelligence in the study of crimes, the formation of their digital model, the construction of decision support systems for scientific and practical problems.

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Kádár, Hunor. "Aki vallási motivációból ölt – a nădragi sorozatgyilkos." Erdélyi Jogélet 2, no. 3 (January 10, 2022): 87–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.47745/erjog.2021.03.07.

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The present study is intended to illustrate the activities of a serial killer who committed a series of crimes in a small village. During the investigation, the police interrogated several suspected candidates but excluded them from the list of potential perpetrators due to lack of motive. Finally, by narrowing down the investigation to include psychiatric patients, the perpetrator, who was member of an aggressive religious sect, was identified. The serial killer testified that he had planned to commit further murders and showed no remorse at all, but instead he regretted killing so few unbelievers.

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James, Veronyka. "Denying the Darkness: Exploring the Discourses of Neutralization of Bundy, Gacy, and Dahmer." Societies 9, no. 2 (June 11, 2019): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc9020046.

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This exploratory study analyzed how three serial killers (i.e., Bundy, Gacy, and Dahmer) potentially rationalized and justified their murders by applying techniques of neutralization. This paper discusses how the use of these neutralizations also functions as a form of stigma management assisting in the maintenance of a positive presentation of self, thus mitigating responsibility for their crimes. This study conducted a content analysis of data comprised from interviews and case histories of these three serial killers. Based on these analyses, the impression is conveyed that these killers used neutralizations to manage their identities (i.e., present “normal” selves), mitigate responsibility for their actions, and minimize the stigma associated with being labeled a serial killer.

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Bjelajac, Željko, and Aleksandar Filipović. "Modus of Killer Profiling in Nordic Crime Series." International Journal of Cognitive Research in Science, Engineering and Education 10, no. 1 (April 20, 2022): 117–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.23947/2334-8496-2022-10-1-117-125.

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Criminal investigators, scientists, mental health experts, and the media have always studied serial killings. Since Jack the Ripper in the late 1800s, and even today, attempts have been made to understand the complex issues surrounding the investigation of serial murders and the motives for these horrific acts. The topics of serial killings are attracting too much attention from the media, academia, and the general public. Nordic crime series make a special contribution to identifying and analyzing many issues related to serial killings including common myths, definitions, typologies, pathology and causality, media role, prosecution issues, organization of investigations, and especially through the affirmation of forensic psychology and criminal profiling. We believe that scientific papers dealing with this topic can be useful in generating an effective response in identifying, investigating, and reaching verdicts, and strengthening the collective ability to understand, respond and act preventively to prevent these violent and serious crimes.

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Dr. Simon, Gabriella Ürmösné. "Portrayal and Attributes of Serial kKllers and Some of the Most Notorious Ones." Internal Security 12, no. 2 (December 30, 2020): 46–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.6699.

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Serial killers have always been in the centre of interest for the reason why they murder umpteen victims without self-control, remorse or a sense of guilt. They stalk stealthily and have the capacity to continue their massacre for ages via diverse countries and states. In this study, I intend to widen my previous study on serial killers with more cases and more background information about the roots of their amok from both the psychological aspect and from the aspect of the damage to the frontal lobe, the role of the hypothalamus, the limbic system, and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex as well as the size of the amygdala which enhance the aggressive behaviour and contribute to uncontrolled sadism. I highlight the vital impact of childhood traumas, humiliation, neglect and the principal elements of family history. I comprise some of the most notorious psychopaths and cluster the common traits of these perpetrators. The role of superiority, maintaining power, manipulation, disability in physical characteristics, profit-making, sensation-seeking, deficiencies in empathy, pathological need to control others and attention-seeking are crucial factors as well. According to psychologists, having a grandiose sense of their own self-worth, narcissistic attitude, and addictive personalities may all contribute to murders.

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Williams, D. J. "Mephitic projects: a forensic leisure science analysis of the BTK serial murders." Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 28, no. 1 (October 19, 2016): 24–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2016.1247187.

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Archer, James. "Campus in Crisis: Coping With Fear and Panic Related to Serial Murders." Journal of Counseling & Development 71, no. 1 (September 10, 1992): 96–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1556-6676.1992.tb02181.x.

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Smith, Melanie Kay, and Titanilla Virág Tevely. "Blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction: serial killers in the context of dark tourism." Tourism and Heritage Journal 4 (January 9, 2023): 53–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1344/thj.2022.4.4.

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Serial killers fascinate people and books, films, TV series and other types of entertainment increasingly cater to this interest providing sensationalized media coverage. The theory suggests that the boundaries are blurred considerably between fact and fiction, even for the serial killers themselves. For many people, serial killers are both frightening and attractive enough to motivate them to go on tours and visit sites, museums and other attractions that are associated with them. This paper explores the motivation for consuming true and fictional crime including murders and serial killing with an emphasis on literature, films, TV series as well as tourism. A content analysis of the websites of walking tours, museums and other attractions connected to fictional and real serial killers was undertaken, as well as a questionnaire with a niche sample of respondents who commented on their experience and perceptions of serial killers within a dark tourism context. The results suggest that while tourists tend to prefer real serial killers to fictional ones, only a small number of tourists actually engage in this form of dark tourism. Their motivations tend to be more connected to education or entertainment rather than a morbid obsession with death or tragedy.

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Sørensen, Anders Dræby. "Den umenneskeligt menneskelige ondskab - Seriemorderen som paradoksal grænsefigur." Slagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie, no. 65 (March 9, 2018): 91–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/sl.v0i65.104131.

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The article discusses the paradoxical role that the serial killer has taken in our present socio-cultural order as a limit figure which at once represents the villain and the hero. In a historical perspective the article examines why the serial killer has been given this role through 5 tracks: First, it is argued that the historical condition of the modern idea of the serial killer is a particular kind of historicalmythologizing of the serial murders. Then it is shown how the idea of serial killer is made widely known because a new type of criminal is introduced by the FBI as an internal enemy of the state. In the third dimension it is shown how this introduction is linked to the conceptualization of the serial killer in criminology and forensic science. The fourth dimension in the history of the idea of the serial killer is the story of how the serial killer is identified as a modern version of a monster by forensic psychiatry and popular culture and is associated with a revitalization of the concept of evil. In the final dimension the spread of the idea of the serial killer is connected to our existential dealing with ourselves.

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Takla, Nefertiti. "Barbaric Women: Race and the Colonization of Gender in Interwar Egypt." International Journal of Middle East Studies 53, no. 3 (August 2021): 387–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743821000349.

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AbstractThis article analyzes the sensationalized media coverage of a serial murder case during the Egyptian revolution of the early interwar era. Despite conflicting evidence, the media blamed the murders on two sisters from southern Egypt named Raya and Sakina. Through a close reading of Egyptian editorials and news reports, I argue that middle-class nationalists constructed Raya and Sakina as barbaric women who threatened to pull the nation back in time in order to legitimize their claim to power. Borrowing from Ann Stoler's analysis of the relationship between race and sexuality and Maria Lugones's concept of the modern/colonial gender system, this article maintains that race was as central to nationalist conceptions of female barbarism as gender, sexuality, and class. The enduring depiction of Raya and Sakina as the quintessential barbaric Egyptian women symbolizes the way in which the modern woman was constructed at the intersection of race and sexuality.

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Hernández, Robb. "Pretty in pink: David Antonio Cruz’s portrait of the florida girls." Journal of Visual Culture 19, no. 2 (August 2020): 232–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470412920941901.

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Roused by the deaths of five African American transgender women in Florida in 2018, artist David Antonio Cruz intervenes in inaccurate media reports about these murders. Painting portrait of the florida girls in 2019, his diptych of significant scale and palette, confronts this senseless violence and challenges sensationalized coverage. This article centralizes his work arguing for the ways in which Cruz innovates transgender of color visibility through a queer of color critiquing of the portrait form and concerted use of a ‘blacktino’ optic. Ruminating on the combined tragedies of gun violence at Pulse nightclub and serial murder of trans femmes, Cruz’s work interrogates the posthumous transgender image with a reversal of digital source material and bodily logics in pose and countenance. By turning to the transnational crossroads shaping these communities’ shared horrors, central Florida, Cruz activates his audience with a sense of urgency in the persuasive power of pink.

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Takla, Nefertiti. "Women and Crime: Exploring the Role of Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Constructions of Female Criminality." International Journal of Middle East Studies 54, no. 1 (February 2022): 124–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743822000022.

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This roundtable on women and crime was inspired by a discussion at a CUNY Dissections Seminar in April 2021, where Gülhan Balsoy presented her work in progress on Ottoman crime fiction in the early 20th century. The focus of her paper was a popular murder mystery series called The National Collection of Murders, which had been published in Istanbul in 1914. The protagonists of this fictional crime series were a mother and daughter known as the Dark Witch and the Bloody Fairy, who led an underground criminal gang living in a secret subterranean world beneath the city of Istanbul. While reading her paper the night before the seminar, I could not help but notice striking parallels between this fictional Ottoman murder mystery and the sensationalized media coverage of a 1921 Egyptian serial murder case, popularly known by the name of its alleged perpetrators, Raya and Sakina. In both the fictive Ottoman story and the Egyptian media coverage of a real crime, two sets of female relatives were presented as the respective leaders of a criminal gang that stole luxury goods from respectable families and turned their homes into human slaughterhouses. In both cases, the female gang leaders used “superstition” to deceive and trap their victims while continually outwitting the police, all against a backdrop of illicit sex.

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Kryukova, Evgenia S. "REGULAR OCCURRENCE OF THE PROCESS OF BODILY INJURY EMERGENCE (AS ILLUSTRATED BY SERIAL MURDERS)." Russian investigator 1 (January 29, 2020): 9–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.18572/1812-3783-2020-1-9-12.

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Dempsey, John M. "The Phantom Killer: Unlocking the Mystery of the Texarkana Serial Murders by James Presley." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 119, no. 1 (2015): 94–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/swh.2015.0066.

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Lubaszka, Christine K., and Phillip C. Shon. "Reconceptualizing the notion of victim selection, risk, and offender behavior in healthcare serial murders." Journal of Criminal Psychology 3, no. 1 (March 15, 2013): 65–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/20093821311307776.

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Vyatchin, D. I. "Features in the organization of repeated yard-by-apartment rounds to solve serial murders." Государственная служба и кадры, no. 1 (2023): 164–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.56539/23120444_2023_1_164.

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Glukhova, A. A., A. A. Iudin, and D. A. Shpilev. "Destructive social movements “Maniacs. Killing cult” and the “World of maniacs and serial killers”: forming a criminal ideology." Russian Journal of Economics and Law 17, no. 3 (September 13, 2023): 602–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.21202/2782-2923.2023.3.602-629.

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Objective: analysis of the semantic field of Internet publics of destructive social groups “Maniacs. The cult of murder” and “The world of maniacs and serial killers”, the reasons for the interest of teenagers and young people in these groups, the techniques used by moderators of social network pages to attract supporters and form a cult of violence among them and stimulate the commission of murders based on the research results (multidimensional content analysis of the social network pages content).Methods: general scientific (analysis, system-structural, comparative-legal) and specific scientific methods (multidimensional content analysis of the social network pages content).Results: based on the analysis of more than 17 thousand fragments of correspondence of participants of the movement “Maniacs. The cult of murder” and more than 34 thousand fragments of correspondence of participants of the movement “The world of maniacs and serial killers”, a semantic field was constructed, including the main topics discussed on the pages of the above-mentioned destructive social groups, methods of involving teenagers in a destructive total ideology modeling the most important spheres of life of the movements’ supporters, leveling the value of human life and turning someone else’s death into an ordinary phenomenon. It is concluded that within the framework of the destructive radical nationalist social movement “Maniacs. The cult of murder” an ideology was formed that has the following features: teleology, scientific appearance, wide audience coverage, presence of symbols and attributes, discussion of topics that have a socially negative character, using the language means that are understandable only to the community members.Scientific novelty: the main topics discussed by participants of destructive social movements “Maniacs. The cult of murder” and “The world of maniacs and serial killers” are described and analyzed. It is proved that as a result of immersion into such content, violence and murder cease to cause natural negative emotions, feelings of disgust and empathy for the victim in teenagers. The study showed that the formation and distribution of content in publics currently takes place on behalf of the users, which, on the one hand, allows removing part of the responsibility from the moderators, and on the other hand, turns the pages of movements into a so-called self-reproducing (by terminology of Niklas Luhmann – autopoietic) system capable of self-production, i.e. its existence is ensured by the activity of the users.Practical significance: the article materials can be useful to federal and regional authorities in implementing various aspects of youth policy, preventing sociopathic behavior of young people, ensuring the safety of educational institutions; to parents and family members of problem adolescents; and to scientists researching destructive youth network movements.

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Sutton, M. R., and David Keatley. "Cooling-off periods and serial homicide: A case study approach to analysing behaviour between murders." Forensic Science International: Mind and Law 2 (November 2021): 100066. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fsiml.2021.100066.

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Ortynskyi, Volodymyr, and Denys Bartusiak. "Feautures of inspection of the place of the event in the process of pre-judicial investigation of certain criminal offenses against personal life." Visnik Nacional’nogo universitetu «Lvivska politehnika». Seria: Uridicni nauki 10, no. 39 (August 22, 2023): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.23939/law2023.39.001.

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The article examines the problematic issues of the criminal process and criminology regarding the organization and inspection of the scene during the investigation of certain types of criminal offenses against a person's life, in particular, serial murders. The legal literature supports the scientific position that the inspection of the scene of the incident is an urgent investigative (search) action that can be carried out until the moment of entering information into the Unified Register of Pretrial Investigations of Criminal Proceedings for the purpose of quick and timely identification and procedural fixation of information regarding the circumstances of the commission of a criminal offense. which must be carried out in a qualified, timely manner and within the limits of the criminal procedural form in order to prevent the irreversible loss (destruction) of traces of a criminal offense. Taking into account the peculiarities of the commission of certain types of criminal offenses, the peculiarities of conducting an inspection of the scene of the incident in the process of pre-trial investigation of certain types of murders as criminal offenses against the life of a person are considered

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Badikov, D. A., and V. R. Volkova. "Some aspects of the initial stage of the investigation of serial murders committed on sexual grounds." Закон и право, no. 1 (2023): 134–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.56539/20733313_2023_1_134.

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Павлюк, О. С. "TACTICAL FEATURES OF THE SUSPECTION OF THE SUSPECT, WHO COMMITTED THE MURDER OF AN ELDERLY PERSON FOR THE PURPOSE OF OWNING IMMOVABLE PROPERTY." Juridical science, no. 1(103) (February 19, 2020): 316–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.32844/2222-5374-2020-103-1.38.

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The issue of interrogation of persons suspected of committing serious crimes, including murder, has been considered and is being considered by many scholars. Each scientific study, directly or indirectly, analyzes the tactics of interrogation, depending on the type of crime, the conditions of its conduct, the time limits of the latter, the amount of forensic information, the purpose of the interrogation (obtaining evidence, exposing lies, in order to prevent further offenses, etc.), the sex or age of the person, social status, mental status, nationality and social affiliation, etc. The purpose of the article is to determine the directions and tactical features of the interrogation of a suspect who committed the murder of an elderly person for the purpose of taking possession of real estate, depending on the investigative stage and the identity of the suspect. The article examines the tactical features of the interrogation of a suspect who committed the murder of an elderly person for the purpose of taking possession of real estate, which is an integral part of a qualified and impartial investigation. Thus, the interrogation of a suspect in this category of criminal proceedings is usually characterized by the conflicting nature of this procedural action, so the process of establishing psychological contact is difficult. It is also difficult to choose balanced and objective tactics for investigators. The investigator’s efforts should be aimed at the confession of the interrogated at least one episode. It is desirable that this be either the first episode of the «series» or one of the last episodes, because the memory of the killer most clearly and vividly reflects the beginning and end of a criminal career. Practice shows that as soon as a suspect confesses to one murder, then after a short period of time, there is a process of confession in all other murders. The choice of tactics for interrogating the suspect largely depends on the information available to the investigator about the psychological portrait of the killer. Thus, the organized non-social type of serial killer during interrogations is focused, considering the line of defense. Can feel open respect for a competent and intelligent investigator, often «play» with him. Disorganized antisocial type of serial killer does not find understanding in society, so seeks to feel understanding and compassion.

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Lynes, Adam, Craig Kelly, and Pravanjot Kapil Singh Uppal. "Benjamin’s ‘flâneur’ and serial murder: An ultra-realist literary case study of Levi Bellfield." Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 15, no. 3 (December 14, 2018): 523–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1741659018815934.

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This article seeks to develop criminological theory with the application of a literary device known as the ‘flâneur’ – an individual described as a ‘stroller’ – to serial murderer Levi Bellfield. With this application of the ‘flâneur’ to the phenomenon of serial murder, this article provides a fresh theoretical ‘lens’, and specifically sheds light on how particular serial murderers operate and evade detection in modern society. The importance of modernity to the phenomenon of serial murder is also considered utilizing Ultra-Realist theory, resulting in both a micro and macro examination into how the modern urban landscape has subsequently created an environment in which the serial killer both operates and comes to fruition. This synthesis between the application of literary devices, criminological theory and socio-cultural concepts not only raises important and previously neglected questions pertaining to serial murder, but also assists in forming the more sinister relative of the flâneur: the ‘dark flâneur’.

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Bennell, Craig, Sarah Bloomfield, Karla Emeno, and Evanya Musolino. "Classifying Serial Sexual Murder/Murderers." Criminal Justice and Behavior 40, no. 1 (December 10, 2012): 5–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854812460489.

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