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    Serial killers have many distinctive characteristics about themselves. The killer can be male or female. Arthur Shawcross is one of the famous male serial killers. Researchers study Arthur Shawcross in three areas: personality profile perspective, serial murder profile, and the serial killer’s seven rituals of murder. Criminal personality profile is identifying the offender’s characteristics and infers personality and physical traits based on the crime scene and victim interaction. Profiling is…

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    not always true. Serial killers, what goes on in their heads, and their decisions intrigue not only investigators and policemen, but the media. The Jack the Ripper murders began the bad news revolution of the media. There are basic requirements to qualify as a serial killer. Jack the Ripper was the first sensationalized serial killerThe Jack the Ripper killings brought awareness to society’s darkest issues and has started a worldwide obsession with the disturbed. There are many cultural…

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    Criminal Profiling is a technique whereby the probable characteristics of a criminal offender or offenders are predicted based on the behaviors exhibited in the commission of a crime. The job of a criminal profiler is very crucial in homicide cases. It helps the law enforcement to find and arrest the killer by knowing little details that determine possible suspects for the crime. Criminal profilers investigating serial killers have always tried to formulate some idea of the characteristics of…

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    at Wexford University. It is always raining and is not very nice. In the book it takes place in present time. The narrator of the story is the main character. Her name is Rory. In the preceding book in the series she was attacked by a ghost, Jack the Ripper, and survived but is now way behind in all of her classes, she has to keep many secrets, and she has to lie to the people she loves. I think that if she were…

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    H.H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil/ By: Adam Selzer Skyhorse Publishing, 2017, 430 pages The book I chose was The True History of the White City Devil. In this book the author describes the many scandals and murders H.H. Holmes was involved in in the late 1800's. In this report I'm going to explain some of the crimes Holmes committed and some of the reasons I enjoyed this book Throughout this book the author tells about the life of Herman Webster Mudgett who later became…

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    A murderer always has a motive for killing someone. Everyone is different which means there could be billions of different scenarios, none of which having the exact same outcome. In the hit crime investigating show Criminal Minds, Season 5 Episode 21 tells the story of a BAU investigation team working to find a man who has gone on a killing spree, murdering five people the team believes to be all connected. The murderer of this episode is discovered to be a young sixteen year old boy whose only…

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    The Zodiac Killer The Zodiac Killer took blame for many murders in the San Francisco Bay area in the late 1960s. To this day he has not been caught. The Zodiac Killer has been directly connected to five murders at the least, he is likely responsible for more (Biography.com). On October 30 1966, Cheri Jo Bates was at riverside College coming from the library. Bates got in the car and it would not turn on. Police think Bates’s killer approached her with an officer to help. The killer drug Bates…

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    The murder of Hae Min Lee has always been a very mysterious case that leads to millions of dead ends. There is few evidence of anyone doing it, but Adnan Syed was ultimately convicted for the murder of Hae Min Lee. Adnan Syed was the ex-boyfriend of Hae and some say he wanted revenge by killing her with his bare hands, but Adnan can’t defend himself because he has no recollection of that day. They are all wrong, because Adnan Syed is innocent. First of all, Adnan does not have a good motive for…

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    The murder of JonBenet Ramsey is a famous unsolved homicide where the evidence leads nowhere, the suspects are her own parents or a mystery intruder, and the crime scene is tampered with in every aspect. Six year old JonBenet Ramsey was a beauty pageant queen murdered in cold blood by a murder who was only in it for the money. This case ultimately stands as one of the most important since it was one of the most tampered with. The case takes place in the Ramsey’s house of Boulder, Colorado where…

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    Serial crimes have been on the ascent over the recent years. The quantity of reported cases of individuals found to have been killed in puzzling ways has commanded news headlines around the world. Serial offenders have a propensity of redundancy of the same crimes. There are certain factors which are believed to be the motivating variable of serial offenses. Gary Leon Ridge who is also known as the Green River Killer is an American serial killer. It is assumed that Gary could have murdered more…

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