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While the article is interesting, I think it fails to defend its own thesis.

While animal cruelty is a component of the Macdonald Triad (along with arson and bedwetting) which supposedly indicates sociopathy (the rigor of the triad as a predictive tool has been seriously questioned) I don't think there's much evidence that the zoosadists consuming this content are would be serial killers. The profile of the average consumer given, of largely middle aged and older women, is also very much not the profile of serial killers, usually men that begin killing in their late 20s-early 30s.

And though the article does make an argument for a link between zoosadism and pedophilia, serial killers are not statistically more likely to be pedophiles than other men. John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer both targeted teenage boys but they're arguably famous because of how abnormal this is/was among serial killers.