Ted Hughes

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…

Vlad the Impaler and H H Holmes had the same tactics but were not the same person. Vlad the Impaler was someone who impaled people, and H H Holmes was someone who was a thief, committed a bunch of frauds, and he was also a murderer. The reasons that I think Vlad the Impaler and H H Holmes had the same tactics but were not the same person is because Vlad the Impaler had a dark childhood but H H Holmes was a privileged child and was very intelligent, Vlad the Impaler impaled people while H H…

killer Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy was well known to Rule as she was quite close to him in several series of murders he committed. The reason for choosing this book is that it provides detailed explanation about how and when was the wrongdoings were committed against the law. It describes how the serial killer, Ted Bundy, executed those crimes, what was going on in his mind during all this period and what was the reason behind his evil nature. Anne Rule was a writer and she was, while staying with Ted,…

Serial killers are as fascinating as they are horrifying. As much as we fear them, we are intrigued in learning about them and knowing their story. Today our society is filled with shows like “Dexter” and “Criminal Minds” that gives a glimpse of serial killers. We enjoy watching it on television or reading about it in books or on the internet. Scholars take hours out of their day to studying these murders and crimes. When we watch these shows we are filled with these fantasies of killings and…

A murderer always has a motive for killing someone. Everyone is different which means there 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…

The Zodiac Killer The Zodiac Killer took blame for many murders in the San Francisco Bay area in the late 1960s. To this day he has not been caught. The Zodiac Killer has been directly connected to five murders at the least, he is likely responsible for more (Biography.com). On October 30 1966, Cheri Jo Bates was at riverside College coming from the library. Bates got in the car and it would not turn on. Police think Bates’s killer approached her with an officer to help. The killer drug Bates…

Historically, the identity of the infamous killer of more than five prostitutes in the East End of London during 1888 remains a mystery (Jack the Ripper Bio). Evidence suggest, that the person behind these “Jack the Ripper murders was either a doctor or butcher. Based on the findings the weapon used on the bodies showed knowledge of understandings of the human anatomy. For instance, George Hutchinson, who witness the interaction of Mary Kelly and Jack the Ripper’s shortly before her killing.…

Former LAPD, Greg Kading, belives that Sean (Diddy) Combs had Tupac Shakur murdered for 1 million dollars. There are other accusations such as The Illumanti had him killed because of his power, or the Jewish Defense League made death threats towards Tupac and wanted him dead. There are a lot more accusations that could or could not be true. However these have been the most popular. A lot of people are still wondering what happened to Tupac Shakur. Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight went to see an MMA…

Freud in his 1919 essay, The ‘Uncanny’, offers us an explanation of ‘uncanny’. According to him, ‘uncanny’ is the experience of dread which returns to what is already known and familiar. In other words, he investigates how the familiar returns as a lingering, uncertain dread. For the purpose of this paper, I will look at the film, The Cure (1997) to explore the concept of Freud’s ‘uncanny’. I intend to look at how the film deploys the concept of ‘uncanny’ in a two-pronged approach: how the…

How can two children be so different when they grow up in the same family, with the same economic and social disadvantages as each other? This question, along with many others about Canadian society, are examined through the often satirical lens of author Mordecai Richler, in the novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. During their childhoods, Duddy, and his brother Lennie, are born into a dysfunctional family. This dysfunction is a result of a lack of a motherly presence. Additionally,…