"The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight"
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Pat Brown’s line has the chilly efficiency of a TV-ready “pattern” meant to cut through chaos. It takes a terrifying, messy subject and distills it into something that sounds almost statistical, almost solvable: look for small bodies. As an entertainer working the true-crime ecosystem, the intent isn’t just to inform, it’s to deliver a clean hook that audiences can retain, repeat, and feel newly alert because of.
The subtext is where it gets thorny. By calling short height and low weight the “one noticeable similarity,” the quote quietly shifts attention away from the harder, less telegenic drivers of victimization: access, isolation, poverty, addiction, unstable housing, racism, misogyny, predatory institutions, bad policing. “Not noticeable” becomes “not important.” That’s how media logic works: what’s easiest to picture becomes what feels most true. It’s a form of narrative triage that keeps the story moving, even if it flattens the real risk landscape.
Context matters because true crime often borrows the authority of behavioral science while serving the demands of entertainment. This sentence reads like expertise but functions like a warning label: simple, portable, slightly alarmist. It also risks implying that victim selection is a kind of natural sorting by physical weakness, when many serial offenders hunt vulnerability in broader terms - people less likely to be missed, believed, or protected. The line “works” because it’s concrete. It’s also dangerous for the same reason.
The subtext is where it gets thorny. By calling short height and low weight the “one noticeable similarity,” the quote quietly shifts attention away from the harder, less telegenic drivers of victimization: access, isolation, poverty, addiction, unstable housing, racism, misogyny, predatory institutions, bad policing. “Not noticeable” becomes “not important.” That’s how media logic works: what’s easiest to picture becomes what feels most true. It’s a form of narrative triage that keeps the story moving, even if it flattens the real risk landscape.
Context matters because true crime often borrows the authority of behavioral science while serving the demands of entertainment. This sentence reads like expertise but functions like a warning label: simple, portable, slightly alarmist. It also risks implying that victim selection is a kind of natural sorting by physical weakness, when many serial offenders hunt vulnerability in broader terms - people less likely to be missed, believed, or protected. The line “works” because it’s concrete. It’s also dangerous for the same reason.
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