Serial Killer Influences

Serial killers often take over the media when they first appear. Many people wonder what can lead someone to do such a horrific act to another person. New studies have been taking place to understand if the brain damage and or mental illness has something to do with a person becoming a serial killer. Scientists and psychologists are still doing many experiments and studies to better understand the brain. A traumatic childhood is also being brought into the discussion about how influences serial killers. The psychological abuse that serial killers endure when they are young is often so traumatic that it negatively impacts the development of the brain so severely that it can cause a higher risk for them killing.
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“The Freeway Killer” also known as William George Bonin was a known serial killer. When he was only eight years old he was kicked out of his home by his mother, which he was later taken to the detention home. During this time a boy approached Bonin tied him up and proceeded to have sexually intercourse with him. This is a technique Bonin later used on his victims. Bonin was also physically harmed in the detention home he received threats while a knife was point directly at him. Bonin admitted all of this to a victim of his James Munro. Munro later escaped from Bonin but was charged with aiding and abetting due to escaping and not turning Bonin in. When Bonin was 18 he joined the Air Force. When he was in the Air Force he was showing signs of how much he enjoyed killing and harming others. The first time Bonin was caught sexually abusing children he was sent to Atascadero State Hospital which he was diagnosed with a manic-depressive disorder. After he was release from the hospital he raped attempted to strangle another boy and was arrested, he was put into prison for three years. After being released from prison he began to work as a truck driver. This was how he got most of his …show more content…
During Bonin’s childhood he encounters three forms of abuse, physical, sexual and neglect. The life he endorses as a young boy had an impact of how he interacts with others, also what he believes to be right or wrong. Bonin expresses aggression through the killings of his victims. This is present in the strangulations, rapes and overall killings. He also experiences trouble with school officials and school itself. Undergoing sexual abuse during his childhood also helps determine what kind of killer he turns out to be. Bonin is a lust killer, this means engaging in sexual intercourse before, during or after the killing. Bonin is considered a lust killer because he would rape his victims to get sexually aroused throughout the killing of his victims. Bonin had a rough childhood, but no one knows if it was directly due to that, but it is referred from Bonin himself due to admitting to one of his victims that got