Childhood/ Background To begin, some background on Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer. According to biography.com, he was born on May 21, 1960 in West Allis, Wisconsin. He had a mother, father, and two younger brothers. While Dahmer was in elementary school, his mother became very ill, which affected Dahmer tremendously. He was known to be shy and very timid due to the neglect from both of his parents.…
A lot of people want to blame the parents of the offenders, asking “what did you turn your child into?” 36% of serial killers were physically abused, 26% were sexually abused, and 50% were psychologically abused (Mitchell and Aamodt 45). Many people have logically come to the conclusion that just because someone is abused, it does not mean that they will become a serial killer; or even a murderer; which is true. In the general population (people who have never committed murder) only 6% are physically abused, 3% are sexually abused, and 2% are psychologically abused (Mitchell and Aamodt 45). The dramatic difference of abuse frequency between people who are serial killers and people who are not seems evident enough to support that serial killers are created.…
The FBI suspected him in 1983, 1984 Gary took a polygraph test and passed it. The test was later turned over as a failure because of failed protocols. 1985, Gary married Judith Mawson and she noticed that there was no carpet in the house. The FBI claims that Ridgway had it removed because a body was wrapped in it. In 1987 the police took hair and saliva samples from Ridgway.…
Arthur Shawcross is a serial killer that murdered eleven women and kidnapped/raped, two children. Shawcross was described as an individual that had a troubled childhood because his mother sexually assaulted him as a child. This type of abuse traumatized him throughout his life, which led him to have an abnormal brain. Every time that Shawcross murdered a woman, a psychologist stated that he had no conscious control because of suffered from a mental seizure. Police and FBI officers had a difficult time pinpointing whom the individual was because Arthur Shawcross was capable of blending in with people.…
Jeffrey Dahmer was born in West Allis, Wisconsin on May 21, 1960. He had one brother, David born December 18, 1966. He had some friends, but most felt he was a loner.…
Dahmer had tried to preserve the body parts as a type of trophy, but also to satisfy his cannibalistic cravings. His last way of killing was done in the same way as above, luring people to his house with the promise of money in exchange for pictures, but this time he tried to turn his victims into a submissive puppet. On April 7, nineteen year-old Errol Lindsey was the next person to fall into Dahmer’s hands. The difference between Lindsey and Dahmer’s other victims was that Lindsey was straight.…
fascinated with necrophilia while listening to his father’s stories about working at the mortuary, he loved the idea of having sex with a dead female. “Having sex with someone who is dead because you wouldn’t get caught no feelings. She wouldn’t feel it.” (Reichert, 2004, p274) stated by Gary’s father. After Gary graduated high school he proceeded to go into Vietnam.…
Introduction What makes a murderer? How does one decide to take the life of another person/persons? No one wakes up one day and just decides that they want to go out and kill. There is a build up to that person deciding to kill, they are not simply “born to kill”.…
Neighbors described his third marriage as great, they were always together and…
Nannie Doss A criminal psychologist studies the thoughts, behaviors, and intentions of criminals on a day-to-day basis, trying to crack the code of what causes these criminal behaviors. Serial killers present a specific challenge because they often kill large amounts of people one at a time. Many of these killers have distinct characteristics, circumstances, and conditions that increase the likelihood of this behavior. Nannie Doss, also known as “Giggling Grandma”3 killed a dozen family members within her lifetime.…
Gary Ridgway was arrested in 2001 for four murders. He later confessed to killing at least 70 women along Route 99 in south King County, Washington State throughout the 1980’s and the 1990’s. He avoided the death penalty by providing detailed confessions and leading police to the dumping sites of his victims, five whom he dumped in the Green River. Gary Ridgway would bring many of his victims to his home strangled them, and then left them in woodsy, remote sites. His first victims were found near the Green River.…
Judge Ito reluctantly allowed the defense evidence, this decision opened the door for the defense to offer its fantastic theory. That being Mark Fuhrman took a glove, put it in Nicole’s blood and took it to Rockingham, where he left it outside of Kaelin’s bedroom to frame Simpson. Mark Fuhrman may not have been the reason Simpson was aquitted. A man named Henry Lee, had solid credentials and provided what seemed to…
This serial killer who is committing these crimes in a similar, limited location appear to be well thought out. I know that as a serial killer, he is going to partake in organized murders. In turn, he is not going to random locations to rape and murder his victims, instead he is carefully choosing the location where he will commit each crime. His reasoning for committing the crimes in a similar manner can be explained by categorizing him as a hedonistic and/or power-oriented serial killer. I would say that this individual might possibly be the type of serial killer who is doing it for the thrill of it and by taking advantage of his victims before he kills them, categorizes him as a power-oriented murderer.…
Serial Killer, Gary Ridgway. Biographical information Gary Ridgway was born on February 18, 1949 and he is currently still alive. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.…
The investigators then questioned the two friends Hansen was with. The stories of the two men where relevant to Hansen’s. Police officers were concerned if Cindy had been lying. Murderpedia.org, “It was Cindy’s refusal to take a lie detector test that convinced William Dennis that she was lying, and he closed the case. Officer Greg Baker, the policeman who had taken…