Evolution of an American Serial Killer Cruelty towards animals, arson, and enuresis. These three factors contribute to what is known as the MacDonald Triad. A method that was used to determine a serial killer in the making (Beck). Though this theory had been disproved, others have taken its place and evolved alongside the serial killer themselves. The first documented American serial killer dates back to the eighteen hundreds, or more specifically eighteen ninety-three, in Chicago, Illinois. Herman Webster Mudgett or known better by his more common moniker, doctor H.H. Holmes, was a medical student who thrived on abducting bodies from graveyards to study. Holmes was first intrigued by human death from a hung display of a human skeleton that
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Ranging from killer clowns to more cannibals, the nineteen seventies held a plethora of noteworthy serial murders. Therefore, in chronological order, the Zodiac Killer is first. Although his killings started in the sixties, it bleed over into the seventies where it eventually stopped in seventy-four, claiming five confirmed victims, but writing about thirty-seven in his letter to the police. The Zodiac targeted young couples in the San Francisco Bay area. The Zodiac killer was never caught, even though two of his victims survived his attack and the majority of his cryptic letters were never properly deciphered. Another killer that was never caught was the Alphabet Strangler, who targeted three adults that had the same first name letter and last name letter in Rochester, New York during the early nineteen seventies …show more content…
The most significant were the Cleveland Strangler, Anthony Sowell, who murdered eleven people in Ohio by strangulation in two thousand and eight and the infamous Long Island Killer whose identity remains unknown. The Long Island Killer murdered an approximate seventeen people he or she found off of Craigslist. Their killing span supposedly dates back to ninety-six and continues to two thousand and eleven.
From H.H. Holmes to The Long Island Killer, serial killers evolved the way they choose to initially kill their victims from stabbing, which indicates rage, to strangulation which is a more intimate way to kill. They evolved in how much longer they could evade the police and their body count. From the average person that walks by you and local restaurant you attend every Wednesday, let's hope no one is lurking in the shadow preparing to
Ranging from killer clowns to more cannibals, the nineteen seventies held a plethora of noteworthy serial murders. Therefore, in chronological order, the Zodiac Killer is first. Although his killings started in the sixties, it bleed over into the seventies where it eventually stopped in seventy-four, claiming five confirmed victims, but writing about thirty-seven in his letter to the police. The Zodiac targeted young couples in the San Francisco Bay area. The Zodiac killer was never caught, even though two of his victims survived his attack and the majority of his cryptic letters were never properly deciphered. Another killer that was never caught was the Alphabet Strangler, who targeted three adults that had the same first name letter and last name letter in Rochester, New York during the early nineteen seventies …show more content…
The most significant were the Cleveland Strangler, Anthony Sowell, who murdered eleven people in Ohio by strangulation in two thousand and eight and the infamous Long Island Killer whose identity remains unknown. The Long Island Killer murdered an approximate seventeen people he or she found off of Craigslist. Their killing span supposedly dates back to ninety-six and continues to two thousand and eleven.
From H.H. Holmes to The Long Island Killer, serial killers evolved the way they choose to initially kill their victims from stabbing, which indicates rage, to strangulation which is a more intimate way to kill. They evolved in how much longer they could evade the police and their body count. From the average person that walks by you and local restaurant you attend every Wednesday, let's hope no one is lurking in the shadow preparing to