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Serial Killers

Focus: Abuse, genetics, chemical imbalances, traumatic events

and societal injustices led to serial killing

What do Ed Given, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayce Gacy, Ted Bundy, Albert Desalvo and Jack the Ripper all have in common? They are just six among the hundreds of known serial killers. Every day people try and look at these people and figure out why they do what they do. Unanswered questions float around, and the families of victims may never find out why their loved one was killed. The truth of the matter is serial killers are insane. Many factors add up to show the motives behind serial killers. On a crime Web site (www.crimelibrary.org), author Shirley Lynn Scott blames abuse, genetics, chemical imbalances, exposure to traumatic events and perceived societal injustices for motives behind killing. All of these will be closely looked at to find out why serial killers kill.

Child abuse can be the cause of therapy for the victim later in life. Usually, we don't think of abuse leading to serial killing. Albert DeSalvo, better known as the "Boston Strangler," was actually sold as a slave by his alcoholic dad. Many sadistic murderers portray their childhood as an endless chain of horrifying sexual abuse, torture and mayhem.

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So why can't we claim insanity and go around killing the masses? There is something much deeper that no amount of research can find that makes serial killers tick. Due to the poor relationships with their parents, killers usually begin or end their reign of terror by killing their parents. " The list of possible prey includes runaways, prostitutes, drug addicts, and the poverty-stricken. Psychopathic Mind; Origins, Dynamics, and Treatment

Norris, Joel. Some thought it “was a fantasy attempt to reclaim a parent/child identity that had been crushed in real life. "It was like I hit a brick wall," Bundy said. True Crime: Serial Killers

Jennifer Furio The Serial Killer Letters: A Penetrating Look Inside the Minds of Murderers. Sexual Homicide: Patterns, Motives & Procedures for Investigation

Seltzer, Mark. Although studies have been done to prove that children who play violent video games are more likely to become violent at recess, nobody thinks the violence actually goes as far as serial killing. It had a lot of information from other sites as well. Serial Killers

Richard Tithecott Of Men and Monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Construction of the Serial Killer. Whether it be violence in video games or too much sex on TV, people constantly find something wrong with society.

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