The Silence of the Lame: Serial Killers Aren’t ‘Evil Geniuses’

Yep, Ted Bundy was… kinda dumb.

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of serial killer literature. In the 1990s, such novels dominated the bestseller lists; you couldn’t walk into a bookstore without spying titles by Dean Koontz, Thomas Harris, Patricia Cornwell, and their contemporaries on the front shelves.