Kristopher Omberg
CJ 490
Research Paper
The Rainbow Maniac People die every day, perhaps by natural causes such as old age or sickness, or unnatural instances such as murder. Because of our innate desire to preserve our own existence, we have designed procedures and repercussions to help keep untimely deaths from occurring. For murder, we have a police force and laws that are backed up by the police force and the judicial system. However, sometimes a murder can occur and these preventative forces have a hard time figuring out who did it to deliver proper repercussions to the offenders. Having not been apprehended in a timely manner, those offenders then have a chance to murder again; this makes them a serial killer and much more dangerous …show more content…
All the victims were part of the LGBT community which means that the killer either has a grudge towards the LGBT community or is himself part of that community. If it was the former, then he was like the police were saying, trying to do the world a service by cleansing it of gay men. However, in my opinion it is far more likely that the killer himself is gay and trying to repress those feelings and using murder as an outlet for his pent up sexual tension. Which leads to murder based on power and some crooked sense of authority. Or maybe he is just trying to hide the fact that he is gay by getting rid of his partners soon after sexual gratification. As we have discussed in class, most serial killers relate murder to sex in some form or fashion. Also, we know that the killer used a gun for most of the murders and it was to the back of the head. Meaning that the killer did not want to originally see the victim die leading back to my Homosexual killer theory. He might have had a hard time performing the murder but didn’t want to get caught being gay so he had no other choice. It could also mean that the killer had some sort of training because he executed his victims Boondock Saints style. It is probably safe to assume the one that got shot in the back was trying to escape which kept Mr. Rainbow from getting the headshot. However, the last murder is a little different. In this one, the victim was beaten to death, which could imply several different things. First, the killer probably had some rage built up for this one. Second, it could also mean that there was a different killer for this one. It is extremely odd that every murder by this guy was the exact same except this victim. Maybe the victim knew Mr. Rainbow or he just
CJ 490
Research Paper
The Rainbow Maniac People die every day, perhaps by natural causes such as old age or sickness, or unnatural instances such as murder. Because of our innate desire to preserve our own existence, we have designed procedures and repercussions to help keep untimely deaths from occurring. For murder, we have a police force and laws that are backed up by the police force and the judicial system. However, sometimes a murder can occur and these preventative forces have a hard time figuring out who did it to deliver proper repercussions to the offenders. Having not been apprehended in a timely manner, those offenders then have a chance to murder again; this makes them a serial killer and much more dangerous …show more content…
All the victims were part of the LGBT community which means that the killer either has a grudge towards the LGBT community or is himself part of that community. If it was the former, then he was like the police were saying, trying to do the world a service by cleansing it of gay men. However, in my opinion it is far more likely that the killer himself is gay and trying to repress those feelings and using murder as an outlet for his pent up sexual tension. Which leads to murder based on power and some crooked sense of authority. Or maybe he is just trying to hide the fact that he is gay by getting rid of his partners soon after sexual gratification. As we have discussed in class, most serial killers relate murder to sex in some form or fashion. Also, we know that the killer used a gun for most of the murders and it was to the back of the head. Meaning that the killer did not want to originally see the victim die leading back to my Homosexual killer theory. He might have had a hard time performing the murder but didn’t want to get caught being gay so he had no other choice. It could also mean that the killer had some sort of training because he executed his victims Boondock Saints style. It is probably safe to assume the one that got shot in the back was trying to escape which kept Mr. Rainbow from getting the headshot. However, the last murder is a little different. In this one, the victim was beaten to death, which could imply several different things. First, the killer probably had some rage built up for this one. Second, it could also mean that there was a different killer for this one. It is extremely odd that every murder by this guy was the exact same except this victim. Maybe the victim knew Mr. Rainbow or he just