Yes, he was notorious at the time, and he would be so today. There's only a given percentage of psychopaths in society at any one time, which will not vary much, and few of them are sexual killers and fewer still are serial sexual killers The fame they acquire, when they do, is usually because they put a whole area of the country in fear of when they will strike next and are proving difficult to catch,.like the "Yorkshire Ripper", or because, like Heath and Haig, their murders are ones in which the general public can identify with the victims; there is a definite "it could have been me" aspect for ordinary women.