Serial killers. When brought up the same questions are always asked from the curious: how they did it? But what people need to be asking is why they did it? At first it may be a hard to answer question, but in reality, by putting together different past events, scenarios can be created that can be related to popular theories that can explain that it is due to how a person is raised that can affect whether or not they become a serial killer. Three serial killers that this is applicable to are Ted Bundy, Ed Gein and Pedro Lopez, all having past events that explain their actions.
To start off, Ted Bundy’s source of hate came from the copious amount of betrayal he had received for a long period of time. His story started off with his mother, Louise …show more content…
At one point Ted Bundy did discover who really was his mother, causing his mind to go into a frenzy of negative thoughts, but that was not after he had gone through another traumatic moment (Ted Bundy’s Childhood, 2007). At some point of Ted Bundy’s college life he fell in love with his love of his life; a girl with dark long hair with a slight resemblance to his mother (Biography.com Editors, n.d). However, even though Ted Bundy loved her; she did not have the same mindset. She merely thought of their relationship as nothing more than a simple college romance (“Ted Bundy’s Childhood”, 2007). For Ted Bundy experiencing two traumatic moments was enough to cause him to go through a few psychological changes. The Most prominent change that Bundy went to is that he started to justify himself that it was okay to kill other people (specifically women) because he was betrayed by two other women before; this is called rationalization a defense mechanism thought up by Sigmund Freud. It can be put …show more content…
The previously stated actions seem nothing more than a product of insanity, but in reality Gein’s childhood is what caused Ed Gein to go on his spree. Ed Gein’s childhood consisted of having a very religious, power wielding mother and a non-caring drunk father. Having a father that did not care for Ed Gein, most of his teachings consisted of constant religious teachings from his mother. One of the most life changing lessons Gein was thought by his mother is that women are evil, and that premarital sex is wrong (Blanco,n.d) . It is how Ed Grin took this information is what caused him to change. During his time as a child; he was very sheltered by his mother and most of his time was spent in his house with his brother, mother and father. In his household, Gein observed and saw that it was his mother that was the one controlling everyone and everyone being dependent on her (Blanco,n.d). Through this Gein had developed the idea that women are powerful because that is all he saw in his household and human nature made him want that power (2007). However the obvious fact is that Ed Gein was a male and there was nothing he could about his gender; this caused his mind to slowly descend into
To start off, Ted Bundy’s source of hate came from the copious amount of betrayal he had received for a long period of time. His story started off with his mother, Louise …show more content…
At one point Ted Bundy did discover who really was his mother, causing his mind to go into a frenzy of negative thoughts, but that was not after he had gone through another traumatic moment (Ted Bundy’s Childhood, 2007). At some point of Ted Bundy’s college life he fell in love with his love of his life; a girl with dark long hair with a slight resemblance to his mother (Biography.com Editors, n.d). However, even though Ted Bundy loved her; she did not have the same mindset. She merely thought of their relationship as nothing more than a simple college romance (“Ted Bundy’s Childhood”, 2007). For Ted Bundy experiencing two traumatic moments was enough to cause him to go through a few psychological changes. The Most prominent change that Bundy went to is that he started to justify himself that it was okay to kill other people (specifically women) because he was betrayed by two other women before; this is called rationalization a defense mechanism thought up by Sigmund Freud. It can be put …show more content…
The previously stated actions seem nothing more than a product of insanity, but in reality Gein’s childhood is what caused Ed Gein to go on his spree. Ed Gein’s childhood consisted of having a very religious, power wielding mother and a non-caring drunk father. Having a father that did not care for Ed Gein, most of his teachings consisted of constant religious teachings from his mother. One of the most life changing lessons Gein was thought by his mother is that women are evil, and that premarital sex is wrong (Blanco,n.d) . It is how Ed Grin took this information is what caused him to change. During his time as a child; he was very sheltered by his mother and most of his time was spent in his house with his brother, mother and father. In his household, Gein observed and saw that it was his mother that was the one controlling everyone and everyone being dependent on her (Blanco,n.d). Through this Gein had developed the idea that women are powerful because that is all he saw in his household and human nature made him want that power (2007). However the obvious fact is that Ed Gein was a male and there was nothing he could about his gender; this caused his mind to slowly descend into