Serial Killers are not an anomaly in history, they have existed as far back in history as B.C.E. their charming personalities and intelligence helped prevent detection and make significant stains in history, and the lack of evidence of actual disappearances or sudden deaths of people. In the book “Inside the Mind of Serial Killers: Why they Kill” by Katherine Ramsland states one of the first serial murders in history ever recorded was in 54 A.D., Locusta a female poisoner hired to put Nero on the throne in ancient Rome. This was not her first victim, she was hired by the lords and mothers of royalty to stop oppositions or people who vied for the throne. Many others came after Locusta, slaying children and justifying the murders by stating
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In the book “Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI” written by former FBI Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) agents Robert K. Ressler, Tom Shachtman describes in the very first chapter a disturbed individual in which made Jack the Ripper look like an amateur. Chase was a sick being and his first murder dealt with a pregnant woman that he shoved animal excrements into her mouth, stabbed her repeatedly, slashed her from her chest down to the umbilical, and the finally removed bowels and organs from the victim cut them up and took some with him (Ressler and Shachtman 1992, 2). Of course the killer did not stop here he then collected blood in a yogurt container and apparently drank from the …show more content…
They develop rituals and patterns of behavior leading them to commit the same crime with exact same detail, but with a different victim.
Upon research there is a noted pattern between technology development for investigations and the way serial killers behave and commit their crimes. Before autopsies and medical assessments of death the common weapon for serial murders was poison. It was common to be skilled in poison in those times homes were not properly built and rats were a health concern. Once medical advances were made the poisoners refined their trade to make their poison indictable in the human body, and once that failed the next generation afterwards became more blood thirsty. Mutilations and specific gory rituals started to become a pattern of course it was more work to cover tracks, but majority of serial killers have no remorse nor did they care about being captured their sole motivation being on the hunt for what they considered
In the book “Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI” written by former FBI Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) agents Robert K. Ressler, Tom Shachtman describes in the very first chapter a disturbed individual in which made Jack the Ripper look like an amateur. Chase was a sick being and his first murder dealt with a pregnant woman that he shoved animal excrements into her mouth, stabbed her repeatedly, slashed her from her chest down to the umbilical, and the finally removed bowels and organs from the victim cut them up and took some with him (Ressler and Shachtman 1992, 2). Of course the killer did not stop here he then collected blood in a yogurt container and apparently drank from the …show more content…
They develop rituals and patterns of behavior leading them to commit the same crime with exact same detail, but with a different victim.
Upon research there is a noted pattern between technology development for investigations and the way serial killers behave and commit their crimes. Before autopsies and medical assessments of death the common weapon for serial murders was poison. It was common to be skilled in poison in those times homes were not properly built and rats were a health concern. Once medical advances were made the poisoners refined their trade to make their poison indictable in the human body, and once that failed the next generation afterwards became more blood thirsty. Mutilations and specific gory rituals started to become a pattern of course it was more work to cover tracks, but majority of serial killers have no remorse nor did they care about being captured their sole motivation being on the hunt for what they considered