difficult, indeed, sometimes impossible. Therefore whilst women make up a small percentage of serial killers, the significance may have increased over the years sufficiently to warrant this publication and classification devoted solely to the phenomenon of the female serial killer. Is There a Need for a Multidisciplinary Approach? According to Mitchell, (1996) serial murder is a crime that has failed to secure a much needed multi disciplinary research program. There are various theses on the etiology of serial murder most of which choose to align with the psychiatric, sociological or biological explanation. Rarely has connections been made between theories in unrelated academic areas and thus no coherent multidisciplinary model to drive research into serial murder has been forthcoming. According to Holmes and Holmes (1996) the reason for the interest in serial murder is due to the fact that the prevalence of serial crime seems to be on the increase. Contrastingly, Fox and Levin (1999 cited in Smith and Zahn) state that there may actually be more scholars studying serial murder than there are offenders committing it. Hickey (1997) estimates that 2526 to 3860 victims of 399 serial killers exist between the years 1800 and 1995. He further notes that between 1975 and 1995 there were less than one hundred victims of serial murder a year, and that serial homicides make up less than 1% of US homicides. With such contrasting figures it must be the intention of aspiring criminologists to further review data and continue research in the area .