But the much more conservative calculations of victim numbers that followed were also inaccurate, she said, because they were based on incomplete data. In research published in 1990, she debunked wildly inflated claims about the number of serial killer victims that had been circulated by special interest and advocacy groups and in the news media.
ARE SERIAL KILLER VICTIMS USUALLY WOMEN PROFESSIONAL
The article marks a return to a subject of early professional interest for Quinet, who is also a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment at IUPUI, teaches a course each spring titled, "Murder in America," and is a member of the Indiana Violent Crime and Homicide Investigator's Association. "And this is not new - these are victims that we've always been not counting."
"We're talking about a factor of two clear up to a factor of 10," she said. Quinet's analysis, based on conservative extrapolations from existing data, would add at least 182 and possibly as many 1,832 victims. Recent academic estimates of the average number of serial killer victims each year range from 67 to 180. Quinet writes that a lack of reliable data about the "missing missing" - including marginalized groups such as prostitutes, transients, gay street hustlers, foster children and "thrown-away" teens - is likely to contribute to undercounting of the victims of serial killers.
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