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How to Profile a Serial Killer David Berkowitz was an infamous serial killer of the 1970s. He is also known as the “Son of Sam.” Berkowitz was a sociopathic, satanic serial killer. Serial killers must commit two or more murders in repeated incidents. He received commands from Satan to target single women and couples. Although he was adopted at birth, he believes he killed his mother and is carrying out these deeds by Satan as a punishment for killing his mother. David Berkowitz acted alone…

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Female serial killers have shared some common characteristics. Many of the killers are difficult to identify because of the different methods they use to kill their victims. For Belle Gunness, she is known as one of many America’s female serial killer. Being a Norway immigrant and traveling to the U.S. at age 21, Gunness came in search of wealth. It is believed that Guinness's motives were to promptly collect life insurance policies from the people she murdered. According to Papazian (2001), a…

TWENTY YEARS LATER: THE DIRTY TRUTH ON JOHN WAYNE GACY, THE SERIAL KILLER By: Vaithiegaa Mathanarajan Even twenty years after the death if the notorious serial killer, John Wayne Michael Gacy, people still tremble when they hear his name. Gacy, an American serial killer was found guilty of killing thirty-three boys and young men (Berry-Dee, 2007). Biographical Information Gacy was born on March 17th, 1942, and died on May 10th, 1994 by lethal injection (Greig, 2010). John Wayne Gacy did…

BEHAVIOURAL ASPECTS OF A SADISTIC SERIAL KILLER AND A SADISTIC RAPIST’ Ashley Brosnan 23869534 Unit Code: AZA3468 Due Date: 12 September 2014 Tutorial: Friday 11:00- 12:00 TABLE OF CONTENT Cover Page Pg 1 Table of Content Pg 2 Introduction Pg 3 Definitions Pg 3 Behavioural Characteristics of a Sadistic Serial Killer Pg 4 Behavioural Characteristics of a Sadistic Rapist Pg 7 Similarities between a Sadistic Serial Killer and a Sadistic Rapist …

Article Review: The insanity Plea in the Case of a Serial Killer What is this article specifically addressing? This article, “The insanity Plea in the Case of a Serial Killer” By George Palermo and Richard Khnudten explains the case of the infamous serial killer Jeffery Dahmer and his attempt to request the insanity plea to get out of his crimes he committed. Mr. Dahmer killed seventeen men, and when asked about his crimes his responses where clear and coherent. Yet, he pled not guilty by…

Dr. Aamodt (2014), author of Serial Killer Statistics, reports that in 2013, there were 40 known serial killer victims in the United States. Serial killers have walked the streets of our nation, being a threat to all who surround them. Many people believe that they are safe from these corrupt human beings, but little do they know, serial killers can seem as normal as your next door neighbor. Theodore Bundy, one of the most significant serial killers of all time, lived a complicated and vulgar…

Libertucci 1 According to the FBI, “serial murder can be defined as a series of three or more killings, not less than one of which was committed within the United States, having common characteristics such as to suggest the reasonable possibility that the crime was committed by the same actor or actors” (Federal Bureau of Investigation). Killers such as Henry Howard Holmes often display similar traits that can also identify them as serial assassins. These people are often master manipulators who…

Ted Bundy is one of the most famous serial killers as of 2016. His crimes span from 1974 to 1978. He sexually assaulted and murdered at least thirty young women, specifically with the women with dark, parted down the middle hair. His childhood was not like most. He started off living in a home for unwed mothers. Later on, he moved in with his grandparents. Bundy also became a boy scout at this time. His mother eventually took custody of him, remarried, and raised Bundy as her younger brother,…

Hamilton “Albert” Fish was a cannibalistic serial killer that lived from 1870 to 1936. He was a sadomasochist and suffered from mental disorders that weren’t properly diagnosed. Fish was the youngest boy of four children and lived with his parents until the age of five. When his father died, his mother brought him to an orphanage so she could find work. This is where it is believed that his masochistic behavior began. Fish was beaten at the orphanage and this psychological trauma could be one…