Discuss the differences in motive, victim selection, and method of killing between male and female serial killers

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• The great majority of identified serial killers are male adults.
• Males almost invariably killed strangers; about 2/3 of victims of female serial killers were acquaintances (such as persons they were caring for).
• Most victims of female serial killers are husbands or ex-spouses or intimate partners.
• Female serial killers also often killed vulnerable victims, such as children, the elderly, or the sick or incapacitated.
• Motives of female serial killers predominantly financial.
• Motives of male serial killers need for control, media attention, sexual excitement rather than financial.
• Studies of female health care workers suggest motives such as power, revenge, relieve tension, occasionally putting patients out of misery.
• Male serial killers typically began killing at later ages, often do not have juvenile records or had records for petty offenses, not violence.
• Male killers typically reared in neglectful or abuse households.
• Male killers killed strangers, including transient juveniles.
• Female serial killers may remain active longer than male killers; both begin killing later in life, however.
• Males tend to kill in brutal, demeaning manner; females tend to use poison or methods against vulnerable individuals such as strangulation or suffocation.