[Haunted]

I stand somewhere in with Urge and Vod's statements. It's true that most of us will never encounter a serial killer, however, for the people that do it's horribly unimaginable. No one should have to go through that.

I try really hard to be compassionate, but Urge made a good point when he said, "...send them back to the store." With antisocial personality disorder (which is the clinical problem you're dealing with here) that's pretty much all you can do other than permanent hospitalization and added to isolation from other patients, because these people cannot and/or will not acknowledge that they have a problem. Also there is no chemical problem, so medication doesn't work short of sedation.

If you look at other animal species on this planet, when they have a member of their pack, family, pride, etc, that doesn't not function in such a way that promotes survival or endangers them, they will kill that member of the group. It happens.

The hard part is figuring out the personality type/traits before one developes into a sociopath. Usually they start developing these traits in childhood, but parents miss them and the developemental problems get worse.

Instead of studying serial killers themselves, it might be more beneficial to study the psychiatry/psychology behind them. That way, we as a society divert our attention from the people and towards the problem. It's like warning systems for weather, if we see the patterns we have enough time to react with little to no casualties.