N. Victimology
There were no similarities between Ramirez victims as they were random and had no real connection with regards to age, race or gender. The victims were “Jennie Wincow (79), Dayle Okazaki (34), Tsai "Veronica" Lan Yu (30), Vincent Zazzara (64), and his wife Maxine (44) , William "Bill" Doi (66), Mable "Ma Bell" Keller (83), Mary Louise Cannon (75) , Joyce Lucille Nelson (61), Max (68), and Lela Kneiding (66) , Chainarong Khovananth (32), Elyas Abowath (35)” ( Murderpedia.org,2051) The background of the victims that were common was that he did not know his victims and were mainly women who he raped. The type of victims were “family, single women, elderly, no particular preference, however, most victims lived in either …show more content…
There is a need to delve deeper into the minds of a serial killer in order to make some kind of understanding of why a certain person decides to kill and what his or her motivations are. In his book titled “Hunting Serial Predators”, G. Maurice Godwin tries to answer the question of the motivations of serial killers and details extensive research conducted by Jesse in which he believes that there are a number of motives such as “to gain, revenge, elimination, jealousy, lust for killing (no sexual connection with the victim and conviction (sexual gratification with victim).” (Goodwin, p. …show more content…
Goodwin describes Jesse’s types of murderer typologies that a “Sex killer, is a type of murderer that is most likely to display acts, such as cannibalism, postmortem sexual activity, and mutilation.” (p. 4) The motives of serial killers are not easy to distinguish as Goodwin further states “researchers began merging sociogenic, biogenic and psychogenic explanations of crimes with theories of aggression to distinguish between an offender’s level of aggression.” (p. 5) This could explain Ramirez’ motives in regards to aggression that he may have been feeling but does not provide a deeper understanding of why he chose the victims he did and his underlying reasons. Ramirez continued to display arrogance and vented his anger towards law officials after his capture, so it seems that his mental state was not normal. It is a challenging question to answer about why a serial killer commits the crime they do and one can never fully explain the reasons which will truly yield the correct
There were no similarities between Ramirez victims as they were random and had no real connection with regards to age, race or gender. The victims were “Jennie Wincow (79), Dayle Okazaki (34), Tsai "Veronica" Lan Yu (30), Vincent Zazzara (64), and his wife Maxine (44) , William "Bill" Doi (66), Mable "Ma Bell" Keller (83), Mary Louise Cannon (75) , Joyce Lucille Nelson (61), Max (68), and Lela Kneiding (66) , Chainarong Khovananth (32), Elyas Abowath (35)” ( Murderpedia.org,2051) The background of the victims that were common was that he did not know his victims and were mainly women who he raped. The type of victims were “family, single women, elderly, no particular preference, however, most victims lived in either …show more content…
There is a need to delve deeper into the minds of a serial killer in order to make some kind of understanding of why a certain person decides to kill and what his or her motivations are. In his book titled “Hunting Serial Predators”, G. Maurice Godwin tries to answer the question of the motivations of serial killers and details extensive research conducted by Jesse in which he believes that there are a number of motives such as “to gain, revenge, elimination, jealousy, lust for killing (no sexual connection with the victim and conviction (sexual gratification with victim).” (Goodwin, p. …show more content…
Goodwin describes Jesse’s types of murderer typologies that a “Sex killer, is a type of murderer that is most likely to display acts, such as cannibalism, postmortem sexual activity, and mutilation.” (p. 4) The motives of serial killers are not easy to distinguish as Goodwin further states “researchers began merging sociogenic, biogenic and psychogenic explanations of crimes with theories of aggression to distinguish between an offender’s level of aggression.” (p. 5) This could explain Ramirez’ motives in regards to aggression that he may have been feeling but does not provide a deeper understanding of why he chose the victims he did and his underlying reasons. Ramirez continued to display arrogance and vented his anger towards law officials after his capture, so it seems that his mental state was not normal. It is a challenging question to answer about why a serial killer commits the crime they do and one can never fully explain the reasons which will truly yield the correct