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suspects to who it could be, however it has never been narrowed down to one person. After this case it the interest of serial killing calmed down meaning it was not as popular. In the 1970s and 1980s the notorious serial killings of Green River Killer, Ted Bundy, and BTK (Dennis Rader). The film Silence of the Lambs renewed public interest of serial killings. The majority of the public even law enforcement only gets the information about the killings over films. What they do not realize is that…

John Gacy, also known as the killer clown was convicted of 33 murders in 1980. Gacy told police he had an alternate personality which led to his murders. Later, scientist at discovered that there were no abnormalities in his brain. The way gacy lured his victims into his home was by saying he had a construction job and he would like to hire them.Gacy sexually assaulted and strangled most of them with rope. When he killed his victims he sometimes dressed as his alter ego "Pogo the Clown." 15…

Famous Agents Some notable agents from the FBI I found are Melvin Purvis (Little Mel), Theodore Gunderson (Ted Gunderson), Joseph Dominick Pistone (Donnie Brasco), William Mark Felt, Sr. (Mark Felt) Melvin Purvis was born on October 24, 1903 and died on February 29, 1960. He received his degree in law from the University of South Carolina. He joined the FBI in 1927 and had been head of the Investigation Division offices in Birmingham, Oklahoma City, and Cincinnati. He was an FBI agent of high…

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph and Rose Kennedy. John, commonly called Jack by friends and family, suffered from many illnesses as a baby with the worst coming at age three when Kennedy contracted scarlet fever. After about a month, he miraculously recovered. That same year, the Kennedy family moved from John’s birthplace of Brookline, Massachusetts, to a neighborhood just outside of Boston. Like his older brother, Joseph, Jr., Kennedy attended Choate Rosemary…

Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Apprehensions,” details the scariness and darkness of the mind. Through the depressing tone, the use of imagery and color association, the speaker, assumed to be Plath herself, allows the reader to enter her mind and experience her thoughts. At the beginning of the first stanza, Plath presents a calm, peaceful image. The stanza starts with the statement, “There is this white wall, above which the sky creates itself.” This example of color association illustrates that the…

To start with, Joel Rifkin is a serial killer from the New York City and Long Island area who strangled between nine to seventeen prostitutes between the years of 1989 to 1993 but was officially arrested on June 28, 1993. Typically, he would employ prostitutes for the sake of company but when it was "time" and/or when he got tired of them he would strangle them, collect trophies from the event to later reflect on, and finally dump his victims. Before he got apprehended was on his way to dump his…

Bundy. From the looks of it, it was said that Ted grew up in the middle-class working family environment. At an early age Bundy revealed a strange interest in the macabre. When he turned 3 he started to show interest in knives and sharp objects. As a child Bundy was a reluctant, but also a very intelligent kid who did exceedingly well in school, but he did not engage well with students or peers at school. As he got older there was a darker side of him that started to develop. Bundy did strange…

The Immeasurable Impact of Sylvia Plath "Her voice, once she found it, was too strong, too strange, not to have struck a note of challenge, her life too brief and intense not to have been packages as that of yet another doomed female genius." (Katha Pollit) Sylvia Plath is a controversial female writer that is still being speculated over to this day, shrouded in mystery and known to have met an abrupt and painful end. One simple thing cannot be refuted: she continues to offer a voice for women…

Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman), an obsessive worker promoting official, is simply given his organization's greatest new record. Subsequent to going through the night visiting with his manager about taking care of another and vast record, he returns home to discover his significant other Joanna (Meryl Streep) during the time spent abandoning him. Ted is left to bring up their child Billy (Justin Henry) without anyone else. Ted and Billy start to loathe each different as Ted never again has…

Anna Halgren Hoover - Sociology One of the age old questions that plague this earth is the thought that things like murder, corruption, and deviance are coded into the human genome, and that when these genes meet in certain frequencies, coupled with environmental and social factors, it leads to the creation of outliers. Or, in Joel Rifkin’s case, among others, to the birth of a serial killer. Joel Rifkin was born in New York in January of 1959, the adopted son of Bernard and Jeanne Rifkin from…