Serial

Capote explores multiple aspects of a killer's psychology and attempts to tell Dick and Perry’s side of the story while exploring what led them to kill the Clutter family. Capote gave the readers an extensive backstory in an attempt to explain their psychological states, but as a result he also created relatable characters that sympathy from the readers. From a reader’s perspective this gives another dynamic to the story, but for the living Clutter family this made the killers relatable which…

you think of some shaggy and crazy man jumping around with a knife slicing and dicing his victims, before finally eating them. No. That's not true in every case. There are also serial killers who most of the time have great lives, but kill and eat people for fun. Neither of those is me. I guess technically, I'm a serial killer. But, I don't count myself as one of them. I am a cannibal because I would've starved to death if I wasn't one. You may also be thinking, why didn't you just eat the cat…

Jeffrey Dahmer was a convicted serial killer and sex offender; he murdered 17 males between 1978 and 1991. He was killed by a fellow prison inmate in 1994. He committed his first murder in 1978, and was arrested multiple times before claiming his second victim, in 1987. Supposedly, it seems that the breakdown of his parents' marriage and their acrimonious divorce a few years later may have been the catalyst for turning these thoughts into actions. Jeffrey's killing spree lasted for more than 13…

In 1888, the infamous serial killer, Jack the Ripper, terrorized Whitechapel, a town in East London, for eleven months with a series of five, possibly eleven, murders. There were six other horrendous murders that came before the official five victims of Jack. There were many suspects during the Ripper investigation, but the police believed that either Joseph Barnet or Robert D’Onston was responsible. Jack was never identified or arrested because a year later, the murders stopped suddenly. The…

mentally ill and is a serial killer? The answer could never truly be told. Mental illnesses are defined as the change in one’s mood, thoughts and actions, while a serial killer looks for the indulgence of killing multiple people. Even though some cases of serial killers were known to have a mental illness that doesn’t mean everyone who is mentally ill is a serial killer. Even though most people think that having a mental disability makes some crazy and more likely to become a serial killer, I…

Doctors are people who you generally trust with your life. Dr. Harold Shipman may change your mind about this thought. One of the most prolific serial killers in history, having killed over 200 people in three decades, all of them his patients. Giving them fatal injections of morphine, more specific than morphine, he injected them with medical heroin (Bunyan). What made him want to kill his patients? Was he trying to kill them, or take away their pain? January 14, 1946 seemed like a normal day…

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…

favorites are Kurt Sutter’s: Sons of Anarchy and HBO’s Dexter. Both of the shows depict its main character involved in intense lives of crime. The overall connection most people have to the protagonist of both, is fascinating on account of they are both serial killers. The prime objective of my analyzation is to study…

uncomfortable smile, quickly and with slight hesitation explained his sudden appearance and pulled a small slip of paper from his back pocket. He then quickly introduced himself. The man’s name was Jeffrey Brown and described the suspicions of me being a serial kidnapper or even possible killer. “It’s should be fine as long as you are innocent, though,” he said quickly reassuringly. I was compelled to slam the door on his face. Not because…

Herbert Baumeister, also known as The I-70 Strangler, was a serial killer in Westfield, Indiana who murdered at least 11 men between 1980 and 1996. Baumeister had a fairly normal childhood as the oldest child of four raised by his mother Elizabeth, and his father Dr. Baumeister, a very successful anesthesiologist. Despite having the privilege of growing up in a somewhat wealthy home and facing no abuse or neglect, Herbert struggled with many different social defects and frequently showed no sign…