Serial Killers
"God, I've never done anything. Help me, help me! God, why is this
happening? Help me!" Robert Violante screamed as the Son of Sam's .44 caliber
bullet tore through his temple (Eyes of a Killer, http.//www.serialkiller.com).
are the most famous of all murderers because of their mass
numbers of victims and their odd rituals of killing. What is a serial killer?
A serial killer falls into two categories: psychotics and psychopaths.
Psychotics are clearly insane, they fail to perceive reality correctly. A
minority of serial killers are psychotics. Psychopaths, also known as a
sociopaths, do not suffer from a mental illness, but from a character flaw.
They are in touch with reality, and ...
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they just don't go out and kill anyone (the majority). A serial killer
will plan out where, when, why, and how before they actually kill. Ted Bundy
used to lure his victims with a phony cast on his leg. Others lured with the
promise of sex or porno movies. When they kill they usually have their own
style. The Son of Sam used a .44 Cal, Dahmer killed various ways and then
hacked his victims into several pieces, dumping the bodies into vats of acid,
and Gacy molested little boys before strangling them and dumping them into the
crawl space under his home.
What makes a serial killer? A serial killer tends to be white, male,
and middle aged. There are other races, sexes, and ages, but the majority fit
the description I've just given. Their character flaw seems to come from their
childhood. Ted Bundy grew up in a male dominated family, so Ted grew up to kill
women. John Wayne Gacy was sexually molested by a man and accused of being a
"queer" by his father, so John ...
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things that the normal person
doesn't. Schizophrenia is a common source are associated with psychotics.
Schizophrenics will hear voices in their head and will ultimately make them go
insane. Often the voices will make these people kill to appease them or to kill
for a cause. Psychotics will most likely have a normal childhood unlike the
psychopath. Although there are cases were psychotics have had a rough childhood
as in the case of Ed Gein. The number of psychotics compared to the psychopath
are minimal. Psychotics have a mental disease unlike the psychopaths which have
a character flaw. To show what a psychotic actually is, the following are two
profiles on psychotics with ...
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