The English term and concept of "serial killer" are commonly attributed to former FBI Special agent Robert Ressler in 1974.[8][9] Author Ann Rule postulates in her book Kiss Me, Kill Me (2004) that the English-language credit for coining the term serial killer goes to LAPD detective Pierce Brooks, who created the ViCAP system in 1985.[10] However, in his book Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (2004), criminal justice historian Peter Vronsky argues that while Ressler might have coined the term serial homicide within law, at Bramshill Police Academy in Britain, the terms serial murder and serial murderer appear in John Brophy's book The Meaning of Murder (1966).[7] In his more recent study, Vronsky states that the term "serial killing" first entered into American popular usage when published in the New York Times in the spring of 1981, to describe Atlanta serial killer Wayne Williams. Subsequently, throughout the 1980s, the term was used in the pages of the New York Times on 233 occasions, but by the end of the 1990s, in the publication's second decade, the use of the term escalated to 2,514 times in the nation's "newspaper of record".[11] The German term and concept were coined by the influential Ernst Gennat, who described Peter Kürten as a Serienmörder (literally "serial murderer") in his article "Die Düsseldorfer Sexualverbrechen" (1930).[12] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the specific term "serial killer" first arose abroad in a 1960s German film article written by Siegfried Kracauer about the film M (1931), a German expressionist film about a pedophilic Serienmörder
The English term and concept of "serial killer" are commonly attributed to former FBI Special agent Robert Ressler in 1974.[8][9] Author Ann Rule postulates in her book Kiss Me, Kill Me (2004) that the English-language credit for coining the term serial killer goes to LAPD detective Pierce Brooks, who created the ViCAP system in 1985.[10] However, in his book Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (2004), criminal justice historian Peter Vronsky argues that while Ressler might have coined the term serial homicide within law, at Bramshill Police Academy in Britain, the terms serial murder and serial murderer appear in John Brophy's book The Meaning of Murder (1966).[7] In his more recent study, Vronsky states that the term "serial killing" first entered into American popular usage when published in the New York Times in the spring of 1981, to describe Atlanta serial killer Wayne Williams. Subsequently, throughout the 1980s, the term was used in the pages of the New York Times on 233 occasions, but by the end of the 1990s, in the publication's second decade, the use of the term escalated to 2,514 times in the nation's "newspaper of record".[11] The German term and concept were coined by the influential Ernst Gennat, who described Peter Kürten as a Serienmörder (literally "serial murderer") in his article "Die Düsseldorfer Sexualverbrechen" (1930).[12] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the specific term "serial killer" first arose abroad in a 1960s German film article written by Siegfried Kracauer about the film M (1931), a German expressionist film about a pedophilic Serienmörder
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