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Do you have a male/female breakdown for your subscribers?

I would hazard a guess that there's more women than men given that your subject is violent crime / depravity :D

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I don't, I fear - but I can tell you that when I teach courses on Criminal Psychology, the students are overwhelmingly female. Take from that what you will!

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Thank you very much for this post about Kürten. His awful criminal journey has inspired the movie "M" by Fritz Lang I believe?

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It did indeed, Sophie - perhaps his only (accidental) contribution to world culture.

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You are right. Something good coming from an awful man. 😌

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"Kürten had apparently committed his first murders before the age of ten. So, at least, he claimed (serial killers, it may not surprise you to learn, have never been renowned for their honesty)."

Thank you very much for this piece about Kürten; and for explicatly pointing out that one should be careful to believe everything he said about himself, since it is known that he also confessed to crimes that he certainly did not commit.

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