Editing Serial killer (section)

===Early accounts===
Historical [[Criminology|criminologists]] suggest that there have been serial killers throughout history.<ref name="Waller2011">{{cite book|author=S. Waller|title=Serial Killers – Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EbcTUxIR19QC&pg=PT56|year=2011|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-4443-4140-9|page=56|access-date=August 30, 2020|archive-date=January 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120053158/https://books.google.com/books?id=EbcTUxIR19QC&pg=PT56|url-status=live}}</ref>  Some sources suggest that legends such as [[Werewolf|werewolves]] and [[vampire]]s were inspired by [[Middle Ages|medieval]] serial killers.{{sfn|Schlesinger|2000|p=5}} In Africa, there have been periodic outbreaks of murder by [[Leopard Society|leopard men]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Tanganyika: Murder by Lion |date=November 4, 1957 |magazine=Time |access-date=April 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628222637/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C867859%2C00.html |archive-date=June 28, 2011 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867859,00.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Liu Pengli]] of China, nephew of the [[Han dynasty|Han]] Emperor [[Emperor Jing of Han|Jing]], was made Prince of Jidong in the sixth year of the middle period of Jing's reign (144&nbsp;BC). According to the Chinese historian [[Sima Qian]], he would "go out on marauding expeditions with 20 or 30 [[Slavery|slaves]] or with young men who were in hiding from the law, murdering people and seizing their belongings for sheer sport". Although many of his subjects knew about these murders, it was not until the 29th year of his reign that the son of one of his victims finally sent a report to the emperor. Eventually, it was discovered that he had murdered at least 100 people. The officials of the court requested that Liu Pengli be executed; however, the emperor could not bear to have his own nephew killed, so Liu Pengli was made a commoner and banished.{{sfn|Qian|1993|p=387}} In the 9th century (year 257 of the Islamic Calendar), "a strangler from Baghdad was apprehended. He had murdered a number of women and buried them in the house where he was living."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Al-Tabari |pages=868–879 [123] |title=Al-Tabari's History, vol. 36. |url=https://archive.org/download/tabarivolume36/Tabari_Volume_36.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://archive.org/download/tabarivolume36/Tabari_Volume_36.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live}}</ref>