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====Serial killer trophies?====

{{drop|T|he Crown may}} not have formally advanced the “trophies” line, but is it fair anyway? Look, I am not a serial murderer, so I am not well placed to say, but ride with me a while: ''a shoebox full of your own scribbled notes seems an odd serial killer trophy''. Doesn’t it? The internet tells us:

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Serial killers may take “trophies” as souvenirs or keepsakes from their victims or as a way of remembering to maintain a sense of control over their victims.}}

~~Serial killers may take “trophies” as souvenirs or keepsakes from their victims or as a way of remembering to maintain a sense of control over their victims.~~

But in this way, as in so many others, Ms. Letby just thumbs her nose at what is expected of a self-respecting psychopathic killer.

But in this way, as in so many ~~respects~~, Ms. Letby just thumbs her nose at what is expected of a self-respecting psychopathic killer.

The literature says the most common trophies are underwear or hair. Ed “Leatherface” Gein made furniture and suits out of his victims. Some, such as Jack the Ripper, Charles Albright, Stanley Baker, Jeffrey Dahmer, Alex Mengel and Dennis Nilsen kept severed body parts. Others took jewellery, driver’s licences and personal effects. One took a library card. But all took things that, in some way or another, ''belonged'' to or personified the victim and signified her control and possession of things in the world. These were trophies of conquest: of deprivation of that control.

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 ====Serial killer trophies?====
 {{drop|T|he Crown may}} not have formally advanced the “trophies” line, but is it fair anyway? Look, I am not a serial murderer, so I am not well placed to say, but ride with me a while: ''a shoebox full of your own scribbled notes seems an odd serial killer trophy''. Doesn’t it? The internet tells us:
+{{quote|
+Serial killers may take “trophies” as souvenirs or keepsakes from their victims or as a way of remembering to maintain a sense of control over their victims.}}
-Serial killers may take “trophies” as souvenirs or keepsakes from their victims or as a way of remembering to maintain a sense of control over their victims.
+But in this way, as in so many others, Ms. Letby just thumbs her nose at what is expected of a self-respecting psychopathic killer.
-But in this way, as in so many respects, Ms. Letby just thumbs her nose at what is expected of a self-respecting psychopathic killer.
 The literature says the most common trophies are underwear or hair. Ed “Leatherface” Gein made furniture and suits out of his victims. Some, such as Jack the Ripper, Charles Albright, Stanley Baker, Jeffrey Dahmer, Alex Mengel and Dennis Nilsen kept severed body parts. Others took jewellery, driver’s licences and personal effects. One took a library card. But all took things that, in some way or another, ''belonged'' to or personified the victim and signified her control and possession of things in the world. These were trophies of conquest: of deprivation of that control.