Introduction With the evolution of media from the late-19th century onwards the ‘spectacle’ of serial killing (MacDonald, 2013; Seltzer, 2013 [1998]) has moved beyond the realm of ‘one-to-many’ media such as print newspapers and broadcast television. Serial killing is now also distributed across the contemporary ‘many-to-many’ interactive digital environment (Boczkowski and Mitchelstein, 2021).