The Effects of Gender on Serial Murder
The car slowly makes its way to the side of the nearly empty road. The middle-aged man rolls down his window, knowing exactly why a woman would be on the side of the highway dressed in barely anything in the middle of the night; however, the man does not know what will become of this encounter, but he is anxious at the prospect of her services. The woman gets into the vehicle, and together they go to a hotel with a sign that only partially lights up. When they enter the room they are welcomed warmly by a few dozen cockroaches. He argues about the price and is met with a handgun. Eventually, his body is found in a junkyard without a wallet or a watch. This man is Richard Mallory, and the killer is Aileen …show more content…
Kaplan discovered, “While most murders by male serial killers tend to involve sex in some way -- a 1995 study found that male serial killings are characterized by desire for domination, control, humiliation and sadistic sexual violence” (Kaplan). Male serial killers want to be worshiped by their victims, usually in a sexual manner. The men want to be in charge of the sexual situation and they need the victim to fulfill a need for them, a need that can never be fully fulfilled. This is why the men are killers, when they do not attain fulfillment, they punish the victim. The victim is the one at fault. Gooch, Meyers, and Melroy report, “ Unlike their male counterparts, who usually kill for sexual reasons, most female serial murders either kill for money e.g.”black widows” killers, or for excitement and power and institutional settings like hospitals, and nursing homes, this letter group earning the sobriquet “Angel of Death” (652). Black widow killers marry a wealthy man, who is typically substantially older than her. She stays a while and basks in the fortune of her supposed true love. A short period of time passes, and the man is found dead for unknown reasons. Since she is the wife, she receives a decent amount of money and assets. Six months later, the process begins once more. Men do not put this much time into a kill, they are impulsive …show more content…
“Female serial killers gather and male serial killers hunt.” This is what Sarah Kaplan, a psychologist at Penn State, noted when asked to differentiate between a male and a female serial killer. Sequential killings are often thought only to be performed men, but this is hardly the case. Women are not as innocent in the act as many believe. Even if female serial killers kill in what is deemed a more humane manner, they are still responsible for taking the lives of innocent people. A serial killer, no matter the gender, commits the same crime--murder. Serial killers come from all walks of life, and even though the difference between the sound of heels and the sound boots are easy to distinguish between, they both leave bloody
The car slowly makes its way to the side of the nearly empty road. The middle-aged man rolls down his window, knowing exactly why a woman would be on the side of the highway dressed in barely anything in the middle of the night; however, the man does not know what will become of this encounter, but he is anxious at the prospect of her services. The woman gets into the vehicle, and together they go to a hotel with a sign that only partially lights up. When they enter the room they are welcomed warmly by a few dozen cockroaches. He argues about the price and is met with a handgun. Eventually, his body is found in a junkyard without a wallet or a watch. This man is Richard Mallory, and the killer is Aileen …show more content…
Kaplan discovered, “While most murders by male serial killers tend to involve sex in some way -- a 1995 study found that male serial killings are characterized by desire for domination, control, humiliation and sadistic sexual violence” (Kaplan). Male serial killers want to be worshiped by their victims, usually in a sexual manner. The men want to be in charge of the sexual situation and they need the victim to fulfill a need for them, a need that can never be fully fulfilled. This is why the men are killers, when they do not attain fulfillment, they punish the victim. The victim is the one at fault. Gooch, Meyers, and Melroy report, “ Unlike their male counterparts, who usually kill for sexual reasons, most female serial murders either kill for money e.g.”black widows” killers, or for excitement and power and institutional settings like hospitals, and nursing homes, this letter group earning the sobriquet “Angel of Death” (652). Black widow killers marry a wealthy man, who is typically substantially older than her. She stays a while and basks in the fortune of her supposed true love. A short period of time passes, and the man is found dead for unknown reasons. Since she is the wife, she receives a decent amount of money and assets. Six months later, the process begins once more. Men do not put this much time into a kill, they are impulsive …show more content…
“Female serial killers gather and male serial killers hunt.” This is what Sarah Kaplan, a psychologist at Penn State, noted when asked to differentiate between a male and a female serial killer. Sequential killings are often thought only to be performed men, but this is hardly the case. Women are not as innocent in the act as many believe. Even if female serial killers kill in what is deemed a more humane manner, they are still responsible for taking the lives of innocent people. A serial killer, no matter the gender, commits the same crime--murder. Serial killers come from all walks of life, and even though the difference between the sound of heels and the sound boots are easy to distinguish between, they both leave bloody