Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson, David Berkowitz, John Wayne Gacy, just some of the most infamous serial killers of the 21st century and yet oddly enough, are household names as well. The world is terrified of these names and sometimes shutter at the sound of them, yet fascinated all at the same time. We like to watch their trials and listen to their victims side of the story on the news and even base shows, movies and books featuring their lives and deeds (Why do Americans idolize serial killers?, 2006, para. 4). Unfortunately, these individuals committed very serious and heinous crimes that have helped law officials develop techniques and methods to track down these killers so that they do not become another character in a movie based on their
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Ressler was one of the first criminal investigators to interview Bundy and found him to be the most “charming” and “intelligent” murderer he has ever faced. Bundy kidnapped, raped and murdered as many as 36 young woman within the span of 4 years in the 1970’s. Robert Ressler reported he felt uncomfortable in the presence of Ted Bundy and always felt like Bundy knew what he was going to say before Ressler said a nything, he was always one step ahead. Ressler realized the insanity that Ted Bundy seemed to have and relating this back to his serial ways (Guy, …show more content…
Jim Fallon, a neuroscientist and professor at the University of California has been studying the brain for more than 35 years. He did research on the brains of psychopathic killers that lead him to the reason why serial killer are serial killers. He studied the brain of killers like Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and John Wayne Gacy. Fallon first looks at things theoretically through three factors: genetics, brain damage, and the interaction within an environment and acknowledges how that specific brain would function. He then does the same for a psychopathic killer’s brain. His results showed that there is a specific difference in brains of serial killer and normal human beings. All of the serial killers’ brains he observed had severe damage to the orbital cortex, the visual processing, as well as the interior part of the temporal lobe, involved in primary auditory perception. (Fallon, 2009). Through this, Fallon goes more into detail and states, “It all has to do with too much brain serotonin during development, which is kind of interesting because serotonin is supposed to make you feel calm and relaxed. But, in utero your brain is bathed in this, so your whole brain becomes insensitive to serotonin, so it doesn’t work later on in life (Fallon, 2009,
Ressler was one of the first criminal investigators to interview Bundy and found him to be the most “charming” and “intelligent” murderer he has ever faced. Bundy kidnapped, raped and murdered as many as 36 young woman within the span of 4 years in the 1970’s. Robert Ressler reported he felt uncomfortable in the presence of Ted Bundy and always felt like Bundy knew what he was going to say before Ressler said a nything, he was always one step ahead. Ressler realized the insanity that Ted Bundy seemed to have and relating this back to his serial ways (Guy, …show more content…
Jim Fallon, a neuroscientist and professor at the University of California has been studying the brain for more than 35 years. He did research on the brains of psychopathic killers that lead him to the reason why serial killer are serial killers. He studied the brain of killers like Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and John Wayne Gacy. Fallon first looks at things theoretically through three factors: genetics, brain damage, and the interaction within an environment and acknowledges how that specific brain would function. He then does the same for a psychopathic killer’s brain. His results showed that there is a specific difference in brains of serial killer and normal human beings. All of the serial killers’ brains he observed had severe damage to the orbital cortex, the visual processing, as well as the interior part of the temporal lobe, involved in primary auditory perception. (Fallon, 2009). Through this, Fallon goes more into detail and states, “It all has to do with too much brain serotonin during development, which is kind of interesting because serotonin is supposed to make you feel calm and relaxed. But, in utero your brain is bathed in this, so your whole brain becomes insensitive to serotonin, so it doesn’t work later on in life (Fallon, 2009,