A Serial Murder Symposium was held where all the attendees discussed and agreed that there was no generic profile of a serial murderer. How a serial killer commits a crime depends on a lot of different aspects including motivation, his behaviour, how he was raised and what circumstances he had faced in childhood. How are they identified and arrested? A police officer should be trained, how exactly to decipher one from another? The Behavioural Analysis Unit of the FBI came up with a Monograph for a Multi-Disciplinary Perspective for Investigators. In the symposium they discussed the various myths as well as the actual reasons, criteria, and differences between psychopaths and serial murders. …show more content…
How can you distinguish one from the other? Are Psychopaths more dangerous than serial killers? They do share some certain basic criteria for example selection, targeting, approach, control, and disposing of the bodies. The continuous killing of three or more people with the same characteristics then that person would be a serial killer. What motivates these murders, number of murders involved, and the temporal aspects of the murders? A break-in time was necessary to distinguish between a mass murder and a serial murder. Federal laws were passed by congress, but they were generic and had to be reassessed, reviewed and discussed about the pros and cons of the variations. If there was a lower number of victims, the law enforcement would be able to financial execute the resources required for a potential serial murder …show more content…
However majority of them were sexually motivated with violence during their childhood and thus most conduct rape as means of happiness and satisfaction. Law enforcement officials had to understand the relationship between psychopathy and serial murder. In serial killers some traits present were sensation seeking, no guilt or remorse, impulse, controlling nature, and predatory. Psychopaths, a personality disorder have used charm, manipulation, intimidation, and violence to control others for mere