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    Cannibal or The Milwaukee Monster are names for the man who terrorized Milwaukee from 1978 to 1991. He was a serial killer that raped, murdered, and dismembered 17 men and boys. Who is this mad man you ask. This man was Jeffrey Dahmer, convicted serial killer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He eventually turned into a cannibal, eating some of his victims. Dahmer is one of the most well known serial killers whos killing spree lasted several years Jeffrey Dahmer was born May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee,…

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    can’t. I’m too easy-going sometimes. Then again, while anger and hate are two things some people can cope with, I cannot. My anger and hate grow to a level that I cannot live comfortably with it.” - (Richard Ramirez/The NIghtStalker)(1). Most serial killers kill because of the rough and unpleasant childhoods, others kill for enjoyment and the desire to kill. In this paper, we have researched about these two’s childhoods. Why they became murderers, how they got caught and what were there…

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    kill his last victims. He says that he was mistakenly identified but he was charged with 14 murders and 31 felonies and after 23 years on death row Ramirez died June 7th, 2013 at the age of 53 from complications related to B-cell lymphoma. The Clown Killer, John Wayne Gacy born March 17th, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois parents Danish and Polish. Gacy and his siblings grew up with a drunk of a father who would beat them with a razor strap if HE thought they misbehaved. He would physically beat the…

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    the most violent malevolent crimes which society has to bear in their every day life. There is a myth, which our society believes in “murderers are both not made”. I believe our society makes a person who he or she will be. No one is born a killer. Serial Killer Ted Bundy is the man who is considered as one of the most notorious criminals in the history of the United States. He described himself as the most cold-blooded criminal: one would have to dig deep in the annals of crime to find someone…

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    place, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was around 75 the time of the trial. He founded The Center for Forensic Psychiatry and Risk Assessment. He is also a)neurologist. He attended University Di Bologna, in Italy, in 1951. He later was certified with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology…

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    Today, December 21st, 1978 the most vicious serial killer in American history was arrested in his home in Illinois, charged with the murder of 33 adolescent males that he buried under his house. On December 11, 1978, John Gacy visited a pharmacy in Des Plaines, Illinois, to discuss a potential remodeling deal with the store’s owner. While at the store to discuss the potential deal, Gacy spoke to a 15 year old store employee about hiring him to do construction work. After Gacy left the store,…

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    There is no pattern to how the fitful, abominable man known as Buffalo Bill, chooses his victims. But one thing is clear, all his victims, women, are found dead with their skin peeled of their bodies. Clarice Starling, who is just a behavioral science trainee now has to track down this awful man, but not without having to ask for the help of the renowned Doctor Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter who ate nine of his physcology patients before being arrested . The filmic version of The Silence of The…

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    Homicide. Assassination. Serial Killer. Murderer. These words captivate american audiences generation after generation. The picture painted in our heads upon hearing these words may be those of Ted Bundy, Jack the Ripper, or H. H. Holmes, the notorious serial killers of the last two-hundred years. These people are seen as the fore front of killers and murderers, but in David M. Buss’s book, “The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill”, he illustrates his new theory on how everyone,…

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    Theodore Robert Bendy (born Theodore Robert Cowell ; November 24, 1946 - January 24, 1989) was a murderer , hijacker , rapist and American, convicted of being a dead university and had assaulted and killed many women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. [1] [2] [3] Shortly before his execution, after more than a decade of exile, he admitted 30 of the murders committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978. The real casualty number is still unknown and can be much higher. Bindi and…

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    The idea of criminal profiling dates to the 1880’s. George Phillips and Thomas Bond used evidence from a crime scene to describe the Jack the Rippers personality. In this case, Jack the Ripper, murdered five prostitutes and disfigured their bodies in different ways in the Whitechapel District in London. This lasted from August 7 to September 10, 1888. From the way he destroyed the bodies, criminal profilers, Bond and Phillips could tell that he had some background knowledge of human autonomy.…

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