The Ripper slashed the throat of Elizabeth Stride, 45, only a few minutes before she was found, then disemboweled Catherine Eddowes less than an hour afterward. Stride was found, still warm, in a poorly-lit court around 1:00 A.M. near the raucous late-night partying of a gentlemen's club. Those who found her moved her and saw a lot of blood on the cobblestones. Her throat had been cut, and as the police searched for someone wearing bloody clothing, they heard about a second murder in Mitre Square, Catherine Eddowes. It seemed that the killer had completed with her what had been interrupted with Stride.
Richard Speck Richard Speck killed eight nurses in a senseless slaughter in 1966. On the morning of July 14, 1966 Richard Speck entered a south Chicago dormitory at gunpoint, where he robbed, brutalized, raped and murdered eight student nurses between the ages of 19-24. ("Richard Speck," par.8) During Specks murder spree, he failed to notice that he had missed a ninth girl that lived in the house. (par. 8)Ironically, the girl that Speck missed (twenty-three year old, Corazon Amuraro) is the one that had initially opened the door to Speck when he targeted the townhouse.
Jack the Ripper chose prostitutes as his victims (http://ripper.wildnet.co.uk/ripintro.htm). the prostitutes he preyed upon were primarily over the age of forty and in a drunken state (Begg 32). The killings took place in a one mile radius within the districts of Whitechapel, Spitalfields, Aldgate, and the City of London Proper (http://ripper.wildnet.co.uk/ripintro.htm). the horrendous killing spree heightened the prejudices of the Victorians against the East End and its population (Haggard). Jack the Ripper fed the flames of class hatred and distrust towards the end of the nineteenth century (Haggard).
Henry also developed a shocking amount of brain damage from the abuse (277). The brain damage may have contributed to his behaviors, but he also seemed to just purely enjoy killing and the fame that he gained from killing. Henry once claimed that he killed over 165 women (“Police Check Drifter’s...). Henry Lee Lucas made many false confessions and enjoy the notoriety he received from them (Gudjonsson 557). Although Henry Lee Lucas murdered many innocent people and partook in many disgusting and inhumane practices, he only confessed to the murder of three people- his mother, Becky Toole, and an elderly woman (Hudson n.p.).
Albert Fish is the man who some believe to be the "most deranged killer in American history" (Rampo Catskill Library system, Biography resource center, Albert Fish). So much so, that the character, Hannibal Lector in the movie Silence of the Lambs is partially based on him. Murder was not the only thing that Albert Fish indulged in. He also participated in cannibalism, fetishism, pedophilia, voyeurism, exhibitionism, and masochism. Fish was born on May 19, 1870 in Washington, D.C. and was placed in an orphanage at age five after his father passed away.
The other two were the cause of the murder. The one who pulled the trigger was Wilson. He was in pain because of the murder of his wife. He loved her, and he was completely mad with grief. I also think that Wilson thought that Gatsby was Myrtles lover.
Jack the Ripper The definition of a serial killer is usually an individual who has killed three or more people over a time period of more than a month. Between the murders there have been what is called a down time, "a cooling of period". Often there is a sexual element involved in the killings and the offenders usually act alone and the victims often have something in common such as race, age or similar appearance. I have always been fascinated by the psychology of criminals and chose to write about Jack the Ripper because he does not quite fit the typical profile of a serial killer yet he is one of the most infamous serial killer to this day. The fact that his identity is unknown makes it even more interesting.
Jeffery Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Mark Allen Smith, Richard Chase, Ted Bundy were serial killers during the twentieth century. These five men alone have been responsible for at least ninety deaths, and many suspect that their victims might total twice that number. Serial killers were the most feared and hated of criminals. They are classified as serial killers because they have similar reasons to kill over and over again with no guilt, no remorse, and no hint of human compassion. This caused by violence in society, family atmosphere, and psychological condition.
In this case, Gansberg gives a detailed chronological account of the inexcusable, unimaginable absence of action and/or assistance from several witnesses of this horrific murder of the young woman Kitty Genovese. Gansberg thoroughly reports in his article the negligence of the witnesses and one man told police he simply “didn’t want to get involved” [ (Gansberg) ] Comparatively, in a poem by Edwin Brock,” Five ways to Kill a Man”, Brock poetically rehearses the evolution homicide from barbaric and cruel in the middle ages, to virtually effortless in the twentieth century. By chronologically listing historical events, crucifying, Knightly slaying, to the objectivity of homicide in the game of war, to mass genocide and destruction, he demonstrates quite eloquently the regression of apparent thought and sincerity that was once taken to thought before killing a man. “There are many ways to kill a man [ (Brock) ]” rather nonchalantly recites in his poem, depicting the gradual yet obvious decrease of thought and general morality in regards to homicide. Edwin shows the gradual desensitization of man’s moral conscience, until the twentieth century, when as he puts it, one merely needs to be present
For example, Ted Bundy chose many of his victims based on their resemblance to his former girlfriend who broke an engagement she had with Bundy (Fido M. 300). Another example is Jerome Henry Brudos who never felt accepted by his mother (Hale 39). This caused a feeling of humiliation and rejection for him, leading him to murder many women to transfer his hatred. Similarly, Hale describes how Richard Biegenwald murdered many men and women due to humiliation from his alcoholic father who had no interest in his wife and his son Richard (40). Lastly Robert Hansen, described as a skinny pimply-faced social reject, murdered many women due to his continual rejection in adolescence (Hale