Brought up by her grandparents, she found herself the victim of rampant childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her grandfather. She never knew any normal familial relations and became pregnant as a result of rape when she was just 14—she claimed that her brother was the father of her child. Exposed to sexual activities at a very tender age she began providing sexual favors in exchange for food, drugs, and cigarettes when she was nine years old. Thrown out of her grandparents’ home as a teenager she began eking out a life as a prostitute. She later started robbing and killing men sequentially earning the notoriety of being the first female American serial killer.
It is all about women to murder their husbands and try to get away with it. The show gives the motives of why these women kill their husbands, it’s either because they have another lover, they want his life insurance, or custody of their children. Although it’s an interesting show, what does it teach or show the individuals that are watching it? That people in the world can commit such a horrific crime, just for money or an unsatisfying relationship? For me, I find it terrifying that someone could murder another human being so gruesomely, such as poisoning them, shooting, or hitting them repeatingly over the head with a baseball bat.
Murderers are the modern day villains. They relate to Grendel in many ways because they go around killing innocent people for their own selfish reasons. Grendel has a lot of jealousy and resentment in his heart so he took it out on other people. Most murderers have felt some sort of pain in life so they choose to take it out on the world they live in by killing
Jerome Brudos: The Shoe Fetishist When dealing with the cases of serial killers, one must expect strange and disturbing motives and methods. Unsettling sexual aspects are common, but there have not been many cases so bizarre as that of Jerome Brudos. Jerome, or Jerry, Brudos earned the names the “Shoe Fetishist” and the “Lust Killer” for his peculiar murders. He attacked women in parking garages, strangled them to death, and then took their undergarments and shoes for his own personal use. The case of this twisted man is very complex and full of strange and practically unheard of acts.
This belief helps Roskolnikov justify his behavior for eliminating her from society. First Roskolnikov plots his murderous act by going to Ivanovna’s apartment, which was also a pawnshop. Roskolnikov went there scoping the safety box where the items of monetary value were kept. While there he asked Alyona Ivanovna if her younger sister was always there. After scoping the pawnbrokers daily environment he went to a tavern to think more aggressively about the murder plan that he was not even sure he could commit.
Meliek Whitsett Dr. V Forensic Science 4 November 2013 Serial Killer Project Most serial killers that we know of today often showed signs of becoming a psychopath as a young child. They would start fires, burn things, torture animals, and have fantasies of sexual control. This perfectly matches Dennis Raders childhood. Dennis Rader used to torture animals, by binding them and then hanging them. He also dreamed about sexual fantasies and stole woman’s panties and wore them.
It makes children be down on themselves and think it is ok to abuse someone smaller than them. The effect of child abuse on children is really horrible and stays with them all their life. Children who experience child abuse & neglect are 59% more likely to be arrested as juveniles, 28% more likely to be arrested as adults, and 30% more likely to commit violent crime. Child abuse causes all kinds of problems for children that they have to live with all their life. It does something to their mind and makes them depressed, stressed out, scared and number of other things.
There may seem to be many motivations for villains throughout the times but as we study these scoundrels we find that generally they are motivated by pure jealousy, or a need of superiority. They utilize manipulation, both physically and mentally in order to achieve their goals and show a lack of remorse. Stephan King’s “Misery”, provides us with a very graphical depiction in Annie Wilkes a sadistic, mentally unstable retired nurse, who has a desire for power and control. Annie goes to tortuous extremes on her captive Paul Sheldon to realize this. Iago from Shakespeare’s play Othello is also a power hungry villain who enjoys having people under his control, he is driven by extreme jealousy and the motivation, revenge.
Child abuse has created massive sufferance of children and can cause negative outcomes through emotional instability in the mind and heart, painfulness of physical wounds, and can cause traumatic distress in the future. Although each parent and child may have their own problems, it is not fair if we let child abuse to happen because it can create senseless and complicated issues. Child abuse has created invisible pain to children’s emotions. According to the National Child Abuse Statistics in 2006, “80% of children getting abused can easily develop psychiatric disorders at the age of 21 such as depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.” The outcomes of a child being abused can create profound sadness, attempts of suicide, and can affect on his/her social life with others. “In Los Angeles 2003, Richard Jr. suffered abuse during high school at Don Boscov Technical Institute and resulted in depression and suicidal.” (Quinn) As a result, child abuse can bring down children’s self-esteem low and emotional instability in the mind and heart.
Statistics such as this combined with the alarming use of child soldiers made people examine how the war was touching children. The children who survive the extreme conditions of war, eventually grow up to be real adults. Meanwhile, the outlook of these children turned adults on life is different due to early exposure of devastating images. The outlooks on life held by these children are usually negative and can often be attributed to different mental disorders. Anne Frank is a classic example.