Killer

of fish. SeaWorld is known for having killer whales perform shows for you with their brave trainers. Blackfish shows a completely different side of SeaWorld. Killer whales are known to be at SeaWorld, doing tricks and jumps as their trainer instructs them to. Whales, just like humans, don’t always response like they should. This movie is about a women whom was killed by a killer whale while performing a show. This movie is very eye-opening to the lives of killer whales in captivity…

John Wayne Gacy, just some of the most infamous serial killers of the 21st century and yet oddly enough, are household names as well. The world is terrified of these names and sometimes shutter at the sound of them, yet fascinated all at the same time. We like to watch their trials and listen to their victims side of the story on the news and even base shows, movies and books featuring their lives and deeds (Why do Americans idolize serial killers?, 2006, para. 4). Unfortunately, these…

Serial killers are individuals that murder many people over a period of time with the interval between victims varying. These criminals have different motives in targeting people and usually have similar characteristics: male and Caucasian. There have been many classification systems made by criminologists to classify serial killers. These typologies are used as aid to help law enforcement find and imprison them. Holmes and DeBurger (1988) designed a four- category typology based on method,…

Throughout the history of time, there have been many different types of serial killers and psychopaths. They have ranged in age, location, gender, religion, and upbringing. The great debate of nature vs nurture always arises when asked what caused the people to do it. Was it because of nature of the beast, or did the person have a traumatic up bringing? Nature vs nurture is not a black and white statement, it is a combination of both that makes the person do and act out the way they did.…

INTRODUCTION Traditionally the actions and behavior of individuals that fall under the category of serial killer has been derived from factors such as an immoral upbringing or even past physical, sexual or mental abuse from their early childhood experiences. Serial murder is a term that describes an individual that has committed over four murders in a relatively short time frame. Serial murder has plagued the criminal justice system with a number of the worst offenders in human history. These…

The U.S. holds 67.58% of all serial killers (Aamodt). The FBI hopes to catch all of them with the process of behavioral analysis. Behavioral analysis was introduced by Harold Teten in 1969. He had been recruited by the FBI and became a lecturer for criminal psychology. He taught the four hour lecture in one session at a police academy in New York and received full praise for the class. Therefore, Teten went on to teach the lecture to a criminal psychology class, but split it into four days of…

captivity truly is. Killer whales are taken from their homes to be placed in the equivalent to a bath tube. While many view this as harmless, we know that captivity of animals in zoos is wrong, so why do we stand for this? Kidnapped Amusement Where do these creatures come from? They certainly didn't go out of self will to a small confinement and a life of mindless tricks. No, these innocent creatures are taken from their pods. According to Seaworld of Hurt more than 90 killer whales were…

Ted Bundy Christopher Gregory Community College of Aurora Theodore Robert Bundy, AKA Ted Bundy, is one of the more well-known serial killers in this nation. Before his death in 1989, he had confessed to thirty-six murders, but the number is likely much higher and some estimate it’s likely in the hundreds. Bundy was a serial rapist and killer, he raped his victims before beating them to death, that had a tristate murder spree. Bundy had escaped prison twice, before he was eventually caught and…

or he would use chloroform soaked rags and suffocated them to death. After he murdered his guests, he would then burn their bodies at the bottom of the hotel’s basement. From these crimes, Holmes is said to be one of America’s first known serial killers (Larson, 2003). Furthermore, building the fair was a long and brutal process since it had to be completed in a short about of time. Daniel H. Burnham, one of Chicago’s talented architects, was the exposition’s director of works. Him and his team…

Serial Killers: Behind the Mind In order to solve murders and catch killers there has to be some research behind what makes them commit terrible acts. Without the research we have today criminal profilers and detectives would have a much harder job of determining the criminal’s next move or where they are hiding out from the police. People like Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacey, or Jeffery Dahmer could have claimed more victims if it weren’t for the research behind the criminal mind. “Statistically…