: How do you give the murderer away? 'There once was a popular soap opera staged in the southern, modern capital of Imaso in Europe. It had run for 50 years and over time produced new characters;

'There once was a popular soap opera staged in the southern, modern capital of Imaso in Europe.
It had run for 50 years and over time produced new characters; some viewers liked them, but other viewers loathed them.
Then there was a news broadcast breaking the news that the actors who played some characters since the mid-2000s, perished in a blazing building which was the obvious work of arsonists.'

What would the personal characteristics of the culprit be, that could be made obvious to the reader?

The scene in a particular film where a mass-murdering psychopath is looking at a photograph (of one of the families he murdered) when he's alone.
It assures the audience that this isn't a cliffhanger (film or not) it was a teqnique

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Do it any way you want. "He's your psychopath" with apparently a posse. No better way to "give a mass murderer away" than to see how those around him and are part of his gang view him since it would appear he is their leader of some sort. A classic is of course Captain Ahab in Moby Dick. The story is not told from his point of view.

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