We live in a society obsessed with monsters. Monsters are real, and human beings can be the scariest of them all. It’s an unfortunate fact that real life is sometimes even more twisted than the worst horror writer can imagine. Nowhere is this seen more than when discussing these slayers. There are people who genuinely believe that killers are a strictly contemporary phenomenon, a symptom of something horribly amiss in the moral fabric of modern society. Killers have always existed. I think that the quality and depth of the research will enable all groups to benefit from it. Having the benefit