In 1990, after fifteen years of marriage, Jesperson got divorced and saw his dream to become a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman. He was unable to follow his dreams due to an injury during training. That same year he returned to truck driving and began to kill. Jesperson is known to have killed eight women over the course of five years. Strangulation was his preferred method, the same method he often used to kill animals as a child.
Kemper’s mother had sent him to live with his grandparents because she was tired of his eccentric behavior. Edmund Kemper, seventeen at the time, decided to shoot his grand mother “just to see how it felt” and eventually shot his grandfather when he returned home. He was sent to a mental asylum later for his actions but proved to his psychologist, through assistant work and studies, that he was deemed normal enough for release including expunging his juvenile records. However, he was still fascinated with killer which began his murder campaign around the age of 24. Edmund worked for the department of transportation in Santa Cruz and began to pick up hitchhikers, bring them to deserted areas, and brutally rape and kill them.
This “rage” is when a non-violent person has an outburst of anger and cannot control it or do not know what they are doing. “ Preston Collins played football at age 15 for his high school football team. He was an honor student who did not like the thought of getting in trouble. Then he started taking Anabolic Steroids to start for his football team. On the morning of July 3, 2001 Preston woke up and stormed into his mothers bedroom where he stabbed her to death.” “ Ray McNeil was a prominent body builder along with his wife, Sally McNeil.
A short time before his fourth birthday Dahmer had a double hernia operation, which seemed to affect him in many ways. He became highly narrow-minded and lacking in self-confidence (Biography, 2010). During Dahmer’s early childhood, his father changed careers resulting in the family moving to from Iowa to Bath, Ohio (Biography, 2010). At school, Dahmer’s classmates considered him the classic “geek” erging for attention. On many occasions, he acted out in rages (Frasier, 1996).
Aileen Wuornos without a doubt is one of the most interesting, animated, and sickly entertaining serial killers of modern times. Wuornos also happens to be one if not the first female serial killer sent to death row and executed. She was held responsible for the murder of 8 men found in central Florida around I-75. Aileen was known as a street walker, a hitchhiking hooker, but yet had a romantic relationship with a Tyra. Serial killers usually have a traumatic childhood, so it must be apparent that something went tremendously wrong with Aileen as a child that led her to be a psychotic serial killer.
James Minor Mr. Jones English 1420 22, June, 2014 Making the decision to put a person to death for a murder he/she committed can be very serious. That is why when I read the article about a 16 year old boy who had killed his mother, had a party and sold items from the house, I was in total disbelief. This behavior is totally unacceptable. The boy, whose name is Kitt, and his 3 year old brother were both in the home when the murder had taken place. According to relatives who lived nearby, Kitt had been upset because his mother had sent him off to boot camp weeks prior.
In the ides of March of 1942, John Wayne Gacy was born in Chicago, Illinois to a loving mother and a drunken father who would beat Gacy and his siblings. Dealing with a series of health and heart issues Gacy was isolated and rejected during his early childhood years resulting the homosexual feelings that Gacy later realized. Due to his urges and his homosexual feelings Gacy sexually assaulted two boys and was convicted for a ten year span in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. In 1970 Gacy was granted parole for the sexual assault after serving 18 months of a ten year sentence. After his release Gacy was able to obtain a job as a short order cook for a brief time before starting his company.
He had surgery on his spine, and then again when he was a couple of pounds heavier, he had surgery on his brain to prevent hydrocephalus. But that surgery did not help at all. As he grew older, we found out that fluid was building up in his skull. He immediately went to emergency surgery, and he now carries a tube in his brain and goes down to the bladder area. Some symptoms of spinal bifida affects quality life include Weakness or pain in the lower half of the body, and paralysis of legs.
Biological Criminal Behavior Lori Labrecque/Team C CJA/314 August 10, 2015 Darrell Cook Ian Brady Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are two of the most notorious killers in British history (Agency Staff, 2012). Ian Brady was born Ian Duncan Stewart in the Glasgow, Scotland ghetto of the Gorbals on January 2, 1938, he was the illegitimate son of a waitress (Hardman, 2013). He never knew his father, and not able to have the capacity to care for him, his mother Margaret Stewart, placed him in the foster care system. Ian Brady exhibited bad behavior and a bad temper, he would often bang his head against a wall, he also exhibited a sadistic streak which he showed later in life. He began torturing animals at an early age and beating up children
A Series of Unfortunate Events It has been almost a year since a mentally ill youth took the life of twenty innocent children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. Last week, the latest news reported a military man, who went on a shooting rampage in Texas at Fort Hood. Other memorable tragedies such as the murders at the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises movie in Aurora, the Columbine high school massacre, or even the Virginia Tech massacre bring back to light a highly debated issue, guns and who should possess them. Despite these tragedies, deep division has kept new gun safety laws from passing in congress. A stricter mental and criminal background check system should be put in place before gun purchase to