Are most if not all serial killers in America white men?

Yep. And most sexual assaults are perpetuated by white men, too, although that seems to be changing.

Contrary to popular mythology, not all serial killers are white. Serial killers span all racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. The racial diversity of serial killers generally mirrors that of the overall U.S. population. There are well documented cases of African-American, Latino and Asian-American serial killers.

African-Americans comprise the largest racial minority group among serial killers, representing approximately 20 percent of the total. Significantly, however, only white, and normally male, serial killers such as Ted Bundy become popular culture icons.

Although they are not household names like their infamous white counterparts, examples of prolific racial minority serial killers are Coral Eugene Watts, a black man from Michigan, known as the “Sunday Morning Slasher,” who murdered at least seventeen women in Michigan and Texas, Anthony Edward Sowell, a black man known as the “Cleveland Strangler” who kidnapped, raped and murdered eleven women in Ohio; and Rafael Resendez-Ramirez, a Mexican national known as the “Railroad Killer,” who killed as many as fifteen men and women in Kentucky, Texas, and Illinois.

The myth that all serial killers are white is related to another commonly held myth that most murders, including serial murders, are inter-racial in nature—that is, the perpetrator and victim are from different races. The reality is that homicides of all types in the U.S. are generally intra-racial in nature.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wicked-deeds/201412/serial-killer-myth-6-they-are-all-white

Female:
We don’t know for sure; according to Mike Aamodt, an impressive serial killer statistician out of Radford University, there have been 514 female serial killers since 1910. Of course, we only know about the ones who are caught. Given the sneaky ways most female serial killers operate, I’m sure this is an underestimate.

The vast majority of murders in the United States are committed by men, and that includes serial murders.; approximately 17 percent of all serial homicides in the U.S. are committed by women. Interestingly, only 10 percent of total murders in the U.S. are committed by women indicating that, compared to men, women represent a larger percentage of serial murders than of any other kind of homicide in the U.S. So, statistically speaking, there are more women in the “serial killer” group than there are in the “killed someone in a bar fight” group or “I beat my spouse to death” cohort. Given the fact that female serial killers tend to get away with their crimes longer, and to kill more victims, suggests that this is a group that deserves some much-needed attention – and detection.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-equation/201803/five-myths-about-female-serial-killers

There have been enough women serial killers that it isn’t all one sex.

But women kill multiple people usually for money, like Dorothy Puente who killed her boarders and then kept the Social Security checks rolling in. Same with the Black Widow, Blanche Taylor Moorw.

There have been Hispanic serial killers, like Juan Corona and Richard Ramirez.

We female serial killers are “sneaky?” Or just smart. :D

The majority of U.S. residents are white. Whites form the majority 49 of the 50 states (the exception is Hawaii). So, yes, more white people means more white serial killers, but not all serial killers are white.

As @KNOWITALL discusses, the news media perpetual the misconception that most/all serial killers are white men. Sadly, it’s simply more newsworthy when a homicide involves a white killer and victim (killers statistically murder within their own ethnic groups), and such stories get more attention and enter the public consciousness more readily.

@Dutchess_III I mean I would consider that smart, to not get caught….lol

Look at this one:
In 2013, in 19-year-old Miranda Barbour suggested to her new husband that they kill someone together, assuring him that she had gotten away with murder before. He agreed. They used a Craigslist ad to meet and lure a 42-year-old man named Troy LaFerrara with the prospect of a sexual encounter. Miranda was clearly the leader; she drove to the mall to pick up their first victim, she stabbed him, and she was the one who picked out subsequent targets.

Oh yes, and Aileen Wournos, the one in Monster with Charlize Theron.
http://www.realclearlife.com/crime/notorious-female-serial-killers/#1

No. Most likely an even amount, percentage wise, of each.

I believe most of the mass killers in the US have been white which is different from serial killers.

“Just realized whether in the world of fictional movies and in real life, I couldn’t think of any non-white male or female serial killer.”

Richard Ramirez and Aileen Wuornos send their regards.

^^Wuornos, white serial killer.

^^^

Yes, and female, not male.

^^Read your quote on me please? Lol

Your question, clumsily worded as it is, seemed to imply that you could not think of any non-white male serial killers. Looking at the thread evidently I’m not the only person who read it as such. Perhaps next time you can be a bit more clear in your wording.

@Darth You are so snarky, it truly makes me lol.

No snark intended there.

I could be wrong, but I think Fluther has a virtual storm cellar to protect us snowflakes from Snarknadoes. ;-p

^^I did mention nor can I think of non-white FEMALE SERIAL KILLERS. And yet you still mentioned Wuornos. Now can you finally see what I have been pointing out?

Yes, I saw that the first time when I read your initial post. Like I said, it’s clumsily worded and I wasn’t the only one confused by it.

^^Ok. So you read it.

That confused me a bit enough to google whether Wuornos wasn’t white. Lol