To help explain their reasoning of a serial killers mind, Wolf and Lavezzi provide two cases of serial killers to analyze. Case one describes the serial killer Gary Evans, a white 43 year old man. Out of South Troy, NY, Evans had a bad reputation with law enforcement. Evans’ main priors had to do with the robbery of antiques, a small offence compared to serial killing. He had a group of close friends that he would commit robberies with, and when three of them went missing in 13 years Evans was thought to be involved with their disappearances.
As he grew older, he had gained more experience after finding love, losing love, being betrayed and abandoned by his college lover Stephanie Brooks, finding out the truth of his family, and developed a dangerously charming, charismatic persona that which he used to abduct over 30 documented women, and then proceeded to murder and rape them (sometimes in that order). He was a cited sociopath, rapist, murderer, and necrophiliac. He managed to get away with murdering over 30 women from 1974 to 1978, and the reason is because he managed to reconstruct himself so efficiently, that nothing seemed psychologically off about him. He
“He said that the ‘hard-core’ pornography that he was exposed to could take responsibility for the murders. However, it is believed that he may have been in denial and refused to admit to family issues to protect them (Psychology of Psychopaths)”. No matter if the case was the hard-core pornography or his family, these are both components found within society that nurtured him into what he was later on in his life. Having troubled parents will lead to improper behavior and conduct, also being shown explicit videos such as porn at such a young age does affect the child's actions. In fact, whether it was the pornography or his family he would’ve been socialized by the same person and that would be his grandfather, an abusive racist who showcased the pornography to Ted at his developing years as a child.
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.
Case Study: Robert William Pickton October 10, 2010 Introduction Serial killers have long astonished people throughout history with their sadistic and disturbing behavior. Academics have researched and theorized the question of what factors or influences foster individuals to become serial killers. In the following paper I will do a case study of Robert William Pickton who faced twenty-six-murder charges in 2002. I will analyze the case of Robert Pickton using a different theory in the areas of sociology, psychology and anthropology. Criminology can be used to reveal how society, police and the media all created a vulnerability that gave Pickton the opportunity to carry out his killings.
THE PERSONALITY OF A SERIAL KILLER [pic] [pic] [pic] Jeffery Dahmer John Wayne Gacy Theodore Bundy [pic] [pic] [pic] Kristen Gilbert Velma Barfield Albert Fish Mary Chandler 19 February 2007 Wow, where to begin. For many years I have been so intrigued with profiling serial killers, it’s not even funny. I read only true crime novels and mainly watch crime shows and anything that has to do with understanding the criminal minds. Serial killers become celebrities instantly because it points to a fascination we have with the dark, violent places in the human mind. This infatuation is because nearly every serial killer that has been identified is just the guy next door, intelligent, well spoken and/or described as a very nice boy.
The investigated violent crimes that came came under the jurisdiction of the FBI. As they both progressed in their career they began to study why some offenders committed violent crime and some who became serial killers. In the Ressler book “Whoever Fights Monsters” the violent offender was wrote about. Ressler wanted to show the offenders make-up of why they committed violent crimes, how their family dynamics at their early ages might have caused their violent behavior. Ressler focused a majority of his writing around some of the well known serial killers and violent offenders with such names as Manson, Bundy, and Kemper.
He has odd obsessions and habits, which in turn allows the audience to somewhat comprehend the motive for the crime. He fits the mold for the typical crime fiction criminal. * There is no formal detective, but the father (Jack), and daughter (Lindsey) take this role. * One questions the real criminal, when multiple moral crimes come to the surface. * The ‘detectives’ (Jack & Lindsey), are far from the conventional detective, and hence allows the audience to only be subconsciously aware that the text revolves around a crime and that of the crime genre.
For nearly 30 years, Helen Morrison has probed the brains of serial killers, she has found what she calls "a cookie-cutter syndrome," a striking similarity in serial killers: They tend to be hypochondriacs, chatty, remorseless men who are addicted to the most brutal acts -- stabbings, strangulation, rape -- and see their victims as inanimate objects. She has study brains of serial killers and what causes them to be the way they are, but with this brain that she had study, she couldn’t find anything wrong. So she sent it away for more test to be done, and when it came back she wasn’t surprised that it was a normal brain. So now the question is what caused this man to be a serial killer? For three months, people watched, Kevin Kadamus, live with the guilt of killing his 17-year-old son, Jacob, in a hunting accident.
Avery and his sister got caught by Charlie and Lono. Charlie ended up killing the both of them and left with their money. Charlie is the ex-mobster who is the boss or what I would call a gangster. Charlie is the tough guy who isn’t afraid of anything or anyone. He has a good connection with other people to figure out everything’s he needs to know.