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The term "serial killer" originated from earlier uses in Europe but was popularized in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s. While FBI agent Robert Ressler coined the term "serial homicide" in 1974, the specific term "serial killer" had been used decades earlier in Germany and in a 1960s German film review. The term began to see broader American usage in 1981 with the Atlanta murders of Wayne Williams and continued rising through the 1980s and 1990s in publications like the New York Times. Researchers g

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