Serial Killers - Have they lost their Fame?

I have been researching serial killers for twenty years. I have spoken to some of the most heinous humans across the world. There was a time when serial murder was a main focus of pop culture.  With killers such as Dahmer, Gacy and Bundy taking up news space, many people could not get enough of hearing the gruesome details of murder. Yet I am finding that slowly, the interest has waned. Yes there are prime television shows such as Dexter and The Following that still propagate the serial killer genre, but killers themselves have fallen from the news.

Serial killers are being recognised and/or caught often, yet the interest in such cases is no longer there. Recently the next big thing in crime circles has been the locked away woman, taken as children by their fathers or strangers they were hidden from the world and raped for decades.

Serial murder is not what it once was. Of course this is a good thing, but one has to wonder about what else is happening out there when a multiple murderer no longer shocks.

08.08.08 We welcome the Olympics

Finally after more than four years we welcome the next olympic games. I have a tradition of waiting to see the Australians before I fall asleep in boredom. Tonight I had to wait until the third last team. Usually we are about the third team to come out.


It was a close kept secret what the Australian team would wear tonight. And then at after 1.30am I got to see a pathetic tracksuit in a faded, ink blue colour. Gone was the Uluru red of the Drizabone, or the tradition green and gold.

I was severely disappointed. This was a team ready to warm up, not to meet the international competition. At least PM Kevin Rudd had the decency to wear a green and gold tie.

Who designed these tracksuits? Kath and Kim?