American serial killers

R.K. Ressler, a former FBI agent and author, wrote in his book Whoever Fights Monsters that “100 percent [of serial killers] had been abused as children, either with violence, neglect, or humiliation.” Though not every case consists of extremes like serial killing, a harmful home life can cause in children the inability to make lasting friendships, depression, and the high risk of participation in criminal activity. A lack of parental support during the childhood years prevents children from…

Think of the words “serial killer.” Who comes to mind? Many have left an undesirable impression on the world, but some tend to stand out from the rest. One in particular seems to be especially unique against the others: Richard Kuklinski. Standing at six and a half inches at three hundred pounds and nicknamed “The Iceman,” Richard Kuklinski was a brutal and cruel man known for killing more than one hundred men in his lifetime. Most people who knew of Kuklinski’s background would not be surprised…

For example, if their parents were serial killers, the child would most likely develop the same deformities in their brain that lead to traits similar to their parents. In the show Dexter, Dexter’s father shows his son that his brain is the same as the famous serial killers. In the show, Dexter is a serial killer who goes after criminals as a way of karma for their actions. However, this fact does not render any of the children…

Jeffrey Dahmer was a convicted serial killer and sex offender; he murdered 17 males between 1978 and 1991. He was killed by a fellow prison inmate in 1994. He committed his first murder in 1978, and was arrested multiple times before claiming his second victim, in 1987. Supposedly, it seems that the breakdown of his parents' marriage and their acrimonious divorce a few years later may have been the catalyst for turning these thoughts into actions. Jeffrey's killing spree lasted for more than 13…

Mercades Axton Serial Killer Project 5/15/17 My serial killer's name is Hamilton Fish, but he went by the name of Albert, the name of his dead sibling. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, The Boogey-Man and possibly the Brooklyn Vampire. Biological Information Birth and death date He was born on May 19th of 1870. Fish died on January 16th, 1936. Place of birth The city my serial killer was born in is Washington D.C. Childhood Albert was raised by his mother and father…

convicted of prior criminal activity. The second murder offense characteristic was that most murderers who commit these crimes have experienced some type of physical or psychological abuse during their childhood. According to Gerber, nearly half of serial killers have experienced some type neglect or emotional abuse. The third characteristic of murderers is that the offender is typically male (2014). According to Canter, nearly seventy-two percent of murderers are male and they are often around…

The psychodynamic theory focuses on the theory that psychological problems could be a reason for criminals to commit crimes caused by unconscious conflicts, defences, anger, sexuality, low self-esteem or underdeveloped id/ego. The Jeffrey Dahmer case is an example looked by different psychiatric though the psychodynamic perspective, where between 1978-1991 seventeen men and boys were sexually assaulted and murdered by Dahmer, who was diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder(SPD),…

The photographs taken from the Franklin home were released by the Los Angeles Police Department last week. The women’s faces in the photos looked like they were unconscious, asleep, or dead. These women were mothers, daughters, and sisters who had families that will never get their loved ones back. It was a abhorrent case that is part of history today. Women left behind children, spouses, and families. I cannot imagine what the women who were captured by this Lonnie Franklin. At this time the…

task of making the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago stand out with an attraction to rival the Eiffel tower. The second central character, and serving as the other side of the coin to Burnham, is Dr. H.H. Holmes; a career criminal, pharmacist and serial killer who designed elaborate traps and mechanisms designed to increase the ease of his kills and disposal of bodies. The lives of these two men are told as two separate stories until they quickly become intertwined, when Holmes arrives in Chicago in…

Herman Webster Mudgett, better known by his alias Dr. Henry Howard “H.H.” Holmes, was one of the first publicized serial killers in American history. Called a “blood-thirsty demon” in an 1896 New York Times article, Holmes was convicted and hanged for the murder of Benjamin F. Pietzel, but he confessed to 27 murders and his body count has been estimated to be nearer 200. Holmes, who started out his life of crime with insurance fraud when he was just out of college, eventually confessed “I was…