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Serial killers have most likely been around as long as people have, long before we had the term. In fact, some scholars believe that the early stories about vampires, werewolves, and other such creatures were actually created to explain the kinds of violence people didn\u2019t have any other way to explain. The kind of violence perpetrated by what we now call \u201cserial killer.\u201d Ugh. Even that term is chilling, isn\u2019t it? This is the first time we\u2019ve told the story of one of these killers, and we\u2019ve chosen one who\u2014although his crimes aren\u2019t that different from those of BTK or some of those other infamous names\u2014is unique in at least one aspect. He was the first serial killer to find his victims via the brand-new internet. And the way he wooed them was so methodical, so cold, so premeditated, that we struggle to imagine what it would be like to live inside a mind like that. He was a consummate scammer, too, a criminal to the core.