Spree killer

The Brain Network of Serial Killers and Psychopaths A Serial Murder Symposium was held where all the attendees discussed and agreed that there was no generic profile of a serial murderer. How a serial killer commits a crime depends on a lot of different aspects including motivation, his behaviour, how he was raised and what circumstances he had faced in childhood. How are they identified and arrested? A police officer should be trained, how exactly to decipher one from another? The Behavioural…

Jack the Ripper was a serial killer from Whitechapel, London, known for the brutal murder of five prostitutes in 1888. He has become known as the first serial killer. His murders are probably the most reputable crimes in history. The killer has yet to bet identified and the case is a still a mystery to this day. Multiple witnesses have stated that they have seen him, although he was never been captured. His crime spree was unprecedented in Britain and nothing like it had ever happened. Police…

Ted Bundy born Theodore Robert Cowell; November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989 was an American Serial Killer, Kidnapper, Rapist, and Necrophilia, who assaulted and murdered numerous young women’s and girls’ the 1970’s and possibly earlier. Shortly before his execution, after more than a decade of denials, he confessed to 30 homicides committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978. The true victim count remains unknown and could be much higher. Born out of wedlock, Ted Bundy was given to his…

At the end of 1970 until 1997, Dennis Rader, otherwise known as the BTK killer terrorized the Wichita Kansas area. Rader was convicted of killing 10 people over a 27 year period. The Otero family were the first victim of Rader’s reign of terror. (Chu, Sieger, and Thigpen, 2005). In 1974, Rader strangled Joseph, Josephine, Julie, and Joseph Jr, Otero. Left at the crime scene was semen as a result of Rader masturbating over the body of 11 year old Josephine (Chu et al., 2005). At the time, DNA…

“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.…

“You always knew it would Mark, ever since you felt the joy of being able to play god.” “But I never thought I would be here, laying on the floor of this old dump. I wanted the rein of The Phantom Killer to end on a high note “To end on a high note?!” the voice laughed. “You messed up, now you’re dying. Explain to me how we even got here.”…

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…

country. Serial killers have been the center of it all by taking other innocent lives in their own hands. Psychologically there’s always a motivation behind every action. Rejection, physical and sexual abuse motivates a serial killer to kill. The fact of slaughtering a human being is an addiction to them, it’s like their drug that they can’t leave or stop using. As I further my research and findings of serial killers and their motivation I will enhance my knowledge on famous serial killers…

could be billions of different scenarios, none of which having the exact same outcome. In the hit crime investigating show Criminal Minds, Season 5 Episode 21 tells the story of a BAU investigation team working to find a man who has gone on a killing spree, murdering five people the team believes to be all connected. The murderer of this episode is discovered to be a young sixteen year old boy whose only motive to kill was because he had felt abandoned when he was a young child. Much like…

To further understand how serial killers are created by their upbringing, we must first get to know what a serial killer does, and the different types of serial killers there are running around. Many psychologists have classified that serial killers are sociopaths and or psychotic. Under the psychological microscope, Sociopath and psychopaths are considered to be the same by nature, they both exhibit antisocial behavior, but they’re both extremely different. Psychopathy, used to describe a…