Serial

Serial killers, we have all seen them on TV and heard of them, but now we get to go in depth and learn about their life and I am excited. I love watching shows like ncis and stuff like that and I am thinking about becoming a forensic psychologist so this is right up my alley. Now I have put a lot of thought into which killer I am going to choose and I decided to pick john Wayne gacy. He was one of the most psychotic killers of his time and probably the scariest. John was born on March 17, 1942…

“We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere” (“20 Famous”). Ted Bundy is notorious for being a charming and intelligent serial killer who would manipulate women and gain their trust so he would have the opportunity to kill them. In Bundy’s lifetime, he confessed to killing over twenty-five women. Several other cases were attributed to Ted Bundy after his death. Bundy killed these women in a very despicable way, almost like a machine or a wild beast.…

Jeffrey Dahmer, the infamous serial killer, was born on May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, although he grew up in Ohio. His childhood was not anything too out of the ordinary, except for a few incidents; one of which was him being molested at the age of eight. Dahmer grew up in a house with his father, mother and his brother, Lionel Dahmer, Joyce Dahmer and David Dahmer, listed accordingly. When he turned ten, Dahmer was supposedly experimenting with dead animals, although his parents just…

Identifying the Markings of a Killer Richard Tithecott, an expert on Jeffrey Dahmer and the modern serial killer who wrote Of Men And Monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer And The Construction Of The Serial Killer, inspires the reader to imagine a young boy born in a small New Hampshire town with a population less than that of the average college campus. His mother, a devout Methodist, preached Scripture to him whenever she got the chance. His father, a “devout” alcoholic, yelled at and beat him every time…

The concept of serial killers seems to draw tons of attention from the public eye. One of the reasons why it intrigues numerous people is because no one truly comprehends the reasons as to why the serial killer kills. Nevertheless, there are many case studies and research to attempt to explain this phenomenon. The reasons as to why John Wayne Gacy, one of the most notorious serial killers, murdered and raped 33 young boys can be explored. Some of them being: his abusive father, trouble with his…

Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as H.H.Holmes, was known as one of the first serial killers in the states or some could even say he was one of the first killers that genuinely defined the word. Holmes was at large around the same time as Jack The Ripper. He committed his crimes on all people regardless of age, gender, relationship status or status in life. No one was safe from the acts he committed in the mid 1800’s. To give a little light on who Holmes is, He was born in New Hampshire in…

been his motive? Why did he choose to kill? When was his point of no return? How can he live with himself knowing he had blood on his hands quite literally? These are the questions that captivates my mind for hours on end after researching infamous serial killer throughout history. I’ve always had a mediocre life; my parents are still happily married at twenty-five years, we have up and downs with a few vices from the Earth, but we live in a middle-class neighborhood in a standard community and…

Most serial killers do not start killing until something bad happens in their life, however, negative life changing experiences such as losing a love one or failing at something you do can change your life in ways you wouldn’t expect. It could make you think things you wouldn’t normally think, or make you do things you probably wouldn’t do also. Things like this could set off an emotional trigger. Ted Bundy, was one of those people who lost a loved one and had a negative life changing…

Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer 1. Please include an overview of the documentary and the crime. This should be a thorough explanation of the documentary including all individuals involved and a detailed account of what happened as well as the final outcome of the case. Aileen Wuornos is known as the first female serial killer in the United States. Wuornos was a prostitute in Florida. Through 1992 and 1993, Wuornos confessed to six murders, and received six death penalties. The…

Captured in the 1930s before the words psychopath and pedophile were part of common vernacular, notorious serial killer Arnold Sodeman murdered four young girls with little thought of remorse. Without guilt, the evil serial killer strangled them to death with their own clothing and left their small bodies alone in the Australian brush, earning himself a chilling position in the annals of Australian crime. The first victim in his child murder spree, 12-year-old Mena Griffiths, showed signs of…