serial killers do what they do are traumatic experience in childhood, desire for power, and personality disorders. According to Jenkins (2014), the earliest serial murder ever documented happened in AD 69, when “Locusta, a Roman woman hired by Agrippina the Younger, the mother of Nero, to…
transforming her into something animal-like, describing her as a tigress or a hyena, plotting the deaths of the French people. They progressed into turning her into the supernatural and the mythical, comparing her to ancient wicked women such as Agrippina as well as the mythical monster known as the harpy. This was intended to dehumanize Marie Antoinette and give a symbol for the Revolution to rally against. In the same strand of thought, the event that became known as the Diamond Necklace…