Monsters Among Us

When one hears of serial killers, one thinks of a good plot in a movie or a juicy plot in a book. One thinks of it as a gruesome phenomenon happening far, far, and far away. When it comes to serial killers, we adopt an ‘out of sight, out of mind’ policy. Sure, when the chilling news first hits, we sympathize with the victims and are shocked at the inhumanity of the killers, but we do all this from afar. Because no one expects a killer so close to them, no one expects one to emerge from their own backyard.

"Every man to his own tastes. Mine is for corpses." - Henri Blot

I doubt any of the Londoners knew or suspected that a modern Jack the Ripper was brewing in their midst. He was a graduate student who was studying the work of serial killers. The police have said he bludgeoned his victims. These murders seem to have links to the standard MO of a number of serial killers, the most prominent being Jack the Ripper. It’s chilling and scary to think that somebody would be so entranced by the work of a murderer that they would carve out a similar legacy for themselves in the most gruesome Hall of Fame.


Once again in Bombay, a serial killer has surfaced. The police suspect one man is behind three murders that took place in Bombay's Kurla area over the last five months. The victims were all young girls, who were raped before being killed. It takes the lowest scum of the earth to prey of defenseless, little girls and kill them. It takes the worst kind of monster to snuff out an innocent’s life on a mere whim of lust or for game.

The Bombay serial killer seems to strike on the sixth of every month since February, taunting the Bombay police. With a death toll of three young, innocent girls, the police are desperate to find him. They launched their biggest manhunt for serial rapist and killer to date. They have announced Rs 2.5 lakh reward for information on the serial killer and have released a sketch to the public. Let’s pray he’s caught before the horrors continue and another life is taken.