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It can only be determined by behavior and self-identification.
Some serial killers engaged in sex with both males and females, which would prompt some people to classify them as bisexuals.
According to some sources, whites are over-represented and African-Americans are under-represented among serial killers, but this depends on how one defines a "serial killer." The more celebrated, headline-grabbing serial killers are generally white, but if one counts perpetrators of multiple homicides, including drug- and gang-related killings, then African-Americans account for between 20% to 30% of all multiple perpetrators, according to statistics compiled by the FBI. Asians, who comprise probably under-represented among American serial-killers.
African-Americans comprise about 13% of the total U. Asian serial-killers are extremely rare in the United States, but Asians comprise only about 4% of the U. population so, statistically speaking, one would expect few Asian serial killers.
Given that less than 2% of adults are homosexuals (plus 1 to 2% who are bisexual), there would not need to be very many homosexuals among the total number of serial killers for them to be over-represented.
Suffice it say, all of the individuals listed here as "homosexual serial killers" can be classified as homosexual as the term is generally used.
Homosexual serial killers have most frequently chosen young boys or gay men as their victims, although some have victimized females as well.
Although the proportion of serial killers who are known to have had homosexual experience is high (over 43%), the total number of serial killers is too small to make statistically relevant statements about whether homosexuals are over- or under-represented among serial killers.
[Click here for source, related studies and statistics.] Also, it should be noted that many of the homosexual serial killers on this list were active members of the Gay & Lesbian cultural community.