Serial killer

Analysis of a Female Serial Killer When we read or hear of violent acts, it is socially accepted that they are committed by men, while women and children are the ones who seem to suffer from the violent acts. When women commit violence, we naturally tend to explain their behavior as an act of defense, mental illness or it was involuntary act. The idea of a woman serial killer is beyond the common thought, yet out of every six serial killers, one is a woman, based on American crime statistics…

Ted Bundy was an American serial killer and rapist who was one of the most notorious criminals. Bundy was connected to at least 36 murders, but some people believed that Mr. Bundy had committed more rape and murder crimes during the time he was still a free man. Bundy was executed in Florida 's electric chair in 1989 and he was known somewhat as a celebrity during his trial case during the 80’s because he was rumored to have great charm and was rumored to be very intelligence. In the video…

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…

There are many serial killers in the world, but only some become well known. The serial killer’s that are well known are the one’s that do the craziest things to their victims. The serial I chose to write about is Robert Hansen known as “The Alaska’s Serial Killer”. This man was absolutely crazy and had to have some mental issues. Robert Hansen was a serial killer in Anchorage, Alaska from 1971 to 1983. The articles say that he is one of the country’s worst killers of all time…

Being a Serial Killer is very hard work. There are many things you do to keep it going and things from your past that lead up to it. As we know there are a great number of types of criminals and it is always growing. With all the crimes happening today these types of criminals are quite different. Another surprising thing is that not only do men become serial killers but women do as well. Men do their killing differently from each other but compared to women they do it totally differently. Some…

For my serial killer I chose Edmund Kemper. He is an American serial killer,rapist, necrophile and cannible, who is known for having abducted and murdered several women in the early 1970s in Santa Cruz. He was born in California, on December 18th, 1948. As an American serial killer he was often called “The Co-ed Killer” or “the co-ed butcher.” Some of his background is that he moved to Montana with his mother,Maude, at a young age after his parents separated. Kemper was never that educated and…

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…

Gary Ridgway is one of America’s most prominent serial killers. He killed for 18 years, until physical evidence was able to link him to murder. Over those years here was picked up for other crimes and released. It is because of him and other killers that America must become better at finding physical evidence. Gary was born in 1949, he is the middle child of three boys. His home life wasn’t completely upsetting, just the occasional heated argument between his parents. His IQ was tested at 82,…

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…

Arthur Shawcross is a serial killer that murdered eleven women and kidnapped/raped, two children. Shawcross was described as an individual that had a troubled childhood because his mother sexually assaulted him as a child. This type of abuse traumatized him throughout his life, which led him to have an abnormal brain. Every time that Shawcross murdered a woman, a psychologist stated that he had no conscious control because of suffered from a mental seizure. Police and FBI officers had a…