At the height of the 1970's crime wave there were at least 80 active serial killers in the US. There was a tremendous geographical skew in where they operated: very few in NYC (2) or New England (1), tons in California (23) and the West Coast.
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This says more about the victims than the victimizers, many of whom were outsiders who seemed to feel that trusting, sexually liberated California girls were easy pickings. There used to a be a lot of geographical variation in suspicion of strangers; NY was high, California low
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Lots of teen runaways from the rest of the United States headed to the California coast in the 1960s-1970s, attracting predators.
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Joan Didion's 1967 reporting from Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco emphasizes, in her snobby Proper Upbringing way, that the big magnet for the Summer of Love was teenage girl runaways from broken working class homes arriving in San Francisco by bus.
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There were runaways in other major cities and serial killers that preyed on them (Gacy in Chicago/Corll Houston) but I think it was more of a problem in the West partly because it had a culture of hitchhiking and partly because strangers, being so common, were not as suspicious.
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