crimes committed by female serial killers. In their book Murder Most Rare, Michael Kelleher and C.L. Kelleher define a female serial killer as “a woman who commits the act of murdering three or more individuals in separate incidents in a period of thirty days or more”. They organize female killers into nine categories. Many in the field consider this typology to be the basis for understanding the complexities of female serial killers. The most lethal female serial killer according to Kelleher…
dressed in a clown costume. Being pinned to the ground, you feel the blade of his knife enter your chest as the life leaves your body. This gruesome scene is similar to some of John Wayne Gacy’s victims. What can cause someone to go on a ravenous murder spree? Serial murders are not indigenous, nor are they a new phenomenon. Ted Bundy,…
) However Dame Janet Smith, the judge who led the official inquiry in the General Practitioner crimes, said that the “underlying problems” which sparked his history of drug abuse were also likely to have led to his embarking on his 23-year killing spree (Montgomery, 2002.) The judge’s report published gives the closest explanation yet as to his motive for murder and possible “addiction to killing” (Montgomery, 2002.) The judge looked at the serial killer’s history of drug abuse during the early…
Serial killers. When brought up the same questions are always asked from the curious: how they did it? But what people need to be asking is why they did it? At first it may be a hard to answer question, but in reality, by putting together different past events, scenarios can be created that can be related to popular theories that can explain that it is due to how a person is raised that can affect whether or not they become a serial killer. Three serial killers that this is applicable to are Ted…
Kuklinski-Iceman The typical serial killer in today’s world is born with these twisted genes that make them this way. Not in Richard Kuklinski’s case. In the documentary, “Conversations with the Iceman,” Kuklinski is interviewed about his life and all of the crimes he committed over the years. He was a hit man who has supposedly killed over 100 people while feeling no remorse doing this things. This essay will talk about how he compares to other serial killers, his childhood, and his brother…
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, more infamously known as the “Milwaukee Cannibal”, is considered one of the America’s most notorious lust serial killers. Dahmer spent over a decade terrorizing the city of Milwaukee with his horrendous killings. Because of the torturous manner in which he committed his murders, Dahmer landed himself a spot at the highest level on Dr. Michael Stone’s Gradations of Evil Scale ("On The Scale of Evil, Where do Murderers Rate?", n.d.). He not only murdered 17 men, but also…
pleasure really that important? These questions are popular when it comes to understanding the brain of serial killers. A serial killer is someone who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with a cooling-off period between murders (“56”). Your brain is literally the “master mind” when it comes to the things you do, say, or feel, but, what makes a serial killers brain think differently than ours? Often, the fear of rejection causes us to miss opportunities we…
Community College of Aurora Theodore Robert Bundy, AKA Ted Bundy, is one of the more well-known serial killers in this nation. Before his death in 1989, he had confessed to thirty-six murders, but the number is likely much higher and some estimate it’s likely in the hundreds. Bundy was a serial rapist and killer, he raped his victims before beating them to death, that had a tristate murder spree. Bundy had escaped prison twice, before he was eventually caught and put on his final trial when he…
Into The Chaos A serial killer can be defined as someone who kills three or more people over more than a month (7). The actions and backgrounds of serial killers are closely studied for many reasons such as criminal investigations. These people kill without remorse and never stop until the law takes action on them. Every action they do is closely studied to find familiarities and predict their actions. Every serial killers life tells a story that reveals more information to investigators about…
Serial killers, A serial killer is a person who kills multiple people in their life. Serial killers can be misleading like they look normal, but ounces you get to know their deep dark past you would want to run. the killers that i did is Ted bundy and Donald “ pee wee” gaskin. Thesis killers are the most dangerous killers that i can find. What got me instead in thesis killers and their crimes is their backstory like they…