Serial killer

Suspect - Montague John Druitt. By Luke Ryan "Jack the Ripper" is the popular name given to a serial killer who killed 5 prostitutes in the East End of London, in the district of Whitechapel, in 1888. The 5 prostitutes were Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly. The name “Jack the Ripper” originates from a letter written by someone who claimed to be the killer published at the time of the murders. He was also referred to as the Whitechapel…

Committing a heinous crime, such as murder, does not necessarily make someone evil. Sometimes limits can be pushed and lines will get crossed causing lives to be cut short. A person can murder someone due to self defense, jealousy, revenge or some type of mental illness. In this case, insanity played a major role for the main character in, The Tell-Tale Heart, when he killed a man due to the fact that he was obsessed with his old neighbor’s eye. Although some may think that people who commit…

The act of mass murder is described as the killing of several victims at one time and in one place (Crocker). In the novel, And Then There Were None, Justice Wargrave had many characteristics of a mass murderer. Justice Wargrave was a methodical killer, a mastermind of planning the killing of the nine guilty murderers. Wargrave said from a young age, he always had the “lust to kill” (Christie 235). Wargrave had delight in seeing death, which led him to his profession of a judge. Wargrave had a…

The case in interest is commonly known as “The Night Stalker” case. Involved in the case is Richard Ramirez, a serial killer -- convicted of 13 murders, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries. At a young age, Ramirez was exposed to satanic worship by a cousin (who was a soldier, discharged from Vietnam). The cousin had filled his head with stories of mutilation and torture of the woman along with graphic pictures from the war. This led him to commit petty crimes and form a…

Jeffrey Dahmer, or better known as the milwaukee cannibal has committed many unimaginable crimes. With 16 life sentences in jail, he is one of the most well known serial killers in America. Dahmer's neighbors have all heard the noises coming from his home at night, but never expected the horror behind his doors. Between 1978 and 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer has dismembered, raped, murdered and eaten 17 young men in the quiet of the night. When Dahmer was finally caught, officers walked into his apartment…

her family. She was born in October of 1932, and she was executed in Durham jail in March of 1873 (Hartlepool 1). She is said to have murdered up to twenty one family members and friends (Wilson 19). Mary Ann Cotton, Great Britain’s first female serial killer, was responsible for those devastating events (Wilson 19). Mary Ann Robson was born in the English mining town of Low Moonsly in October of 1832 (Hartlepool 1), (Hale 45). Her parents were Margaret and Michael Lonsdale (Hartlepool 1). Many…

Infamous serial killer John Wayne Gacy was born on March 17, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of John Stanley Gacy and Marion Elaine Robinson. Gacy and his siblings grew up with a drunken father who would beat his children if he believed they had misbehaved in someway. Gacy's father also physically assaulted his mother, the only person that truly showed affection for Gacy. Gacy's sister Karen, when interviewed on Oprah, said that the siblings learned to“toughen up against the beatings”…

Serial is a 12 episode podcast based around the murder of Hae Min Lee and her alleged killer Adnan Syed who was convicted for it. In this shocking podcast there was a view into the prosecution’s tactics and actions that shocked many listeners; even the narrator of the podcast itself, Sarah Koenig. The prosecution relied primarily on one witness for a majority of their case, due to an absence of evidence. As well, they also used Adnan’s relationships against him. Overall the prosecution’s actions…

Alexus Van Helmond Final Case Study CSI Spring 2017 Ted Bundy By far one of the most scariest serial killers in the world, Ted Bundy “charmingly” killed over 30 women within 4 years. Grown up in our local college town Burlington, Vermont, Bundy lived a life that he didn’t know was a lie. A few years later moving to Philadelphia and living with his grandparents is when Bundy found out the truth. He never met his real father and his mother was brought up to him as his sister. His mother had…

leaving naked bodies around his apartment so he could sodomize them and showering with dead victims. He depended on the dead bodies for companionship. Necrophilia is when an engages in sexual activity with the deceased. When looking at other serial killers, there have been three other who engaged in necrophilia and each had a history of abuse, anti-social behavior, and trauma, just like Dahmer. Thus, his necrophilia is probably related back to his emotional…