... This approach, represented by works like those of Arndt, Hietpas, and Kim (2004), Burgess, Prentky, Burgess, Douglas, and Ressler (1994), Hickey (2016), Rossmo (2000) and Vincent, Williams, Huff-Corzine, and Corzine (2022), is underscored by the perception that the number of victims directly correlates with the magnitude of societal threat posed by these offenders. Factors such as the killer's motivation (Holmes & Holmes, 1998;Ressler, Burgess, Douglas, Hartman, & D'Agostino, 1986), premeditation (Adjorlolo & Chan, 2014;Brantley & Kosky, 2005;Dietz, Hazelwood, & Warren, 1990), and victimology (Godwin, 2008;Quinet, 2011;Rossmo, 2000) have been analyzed to assess the variance in victim count across different serial killers. Factors such as time, location, premeditation, arousal, cognitive state (Stefanska & Tehan, 2022) as well as victim selection patterns have been used to explain the variance in time intervals between homicides and are thought to have implications on behavioral consistency and change (Sorochinski, Salfati, Libretti and Gupta, 2023). ...