Between 1974 and 1978 the United States was in a state of terror as the country’s most prolific serial killer, Ted Bundy, was on the loose wreaking havoc. Bundy raped and killed women in Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Utah, and Florida. Bundy eventually confessed to 40 murders [ (Lohr, 2002) ], but others estimate that he was responsible for many more deaths, starting as early as 1961 [ (Shadow, 2008) ]. The biggest question that many people pondered was how someone as intelligent, as highly accomplished, and as praised as Bundy could commit such atrocities. Although some people believed that Ted Bundy was born evil, he became a sociopathic murderer of women due in part to his antisocial personality disorder, his failure to form bonds that would encourage conformity to societal norms and his viewing of violent pornography which stimulated his aggression against women.
And after every murder he would just think back about how the gentle man with gentle thoughts and struck. This feeling made him feel good, it gave him great strength in his own mind. As he would laugh at the authorities trying to hunt the offender down. But of course like all cases they must come to a close, the offender gets caught and just is served but no in jack the rippers case, he was never caught. Because Unlike today, with DNA evidence, and other forensic tools, made famous by current TV shows, there was little to go on except the 'gut instinct' of the police, testimony of witnesses, etc.
Gary Ridgway-Essay #1 Sacha R Gary Leon Ridgway, also known as the Green River Killer (McCarthy, 2002), is known as one of the most infamous and notorious serial killers to have prowled the United States. Gary Ridgway killed at least 49 women, and some investigators believe he killed up to 90 (McCarthy, 2002). Gary’s preferred method of killing was through strangulation, often using his hands, or sometimes using ligatures. How did a boy named Gary come to become the highly feared and very hard to trace Green River Killer? This essay will describe and assess Gary Leon Ridgway’s story, from childhood to his darker days.
Even though Michelle concocted the plan, it was Byrom Jr. who actually committed the murder. Byrom Jr. admitted to committing in several jailhouse letters and, according to court documents, in an interview with a court-appointed psychologist” (cnn.com). In one explicit confession letter to his mother, he detailed how he killed his father in rage after a fight. Because Byrom’s defense attorneys never had the confession letters entered in as evidence, a jury never heard any of Edward Byrom Jr.’s confessions. This meant that without the confessions, Michelle was going to be convicted of the murder.
Truman Capote explores the idea of victimization in his renowned American novel In Cold Blood. The Clutters are the most apparent victims, in which they all were brutally murdered in their own home. Without Capote’s depiction of the events that let up to that heinous crime, they would be known as the only casualties. In writing this novel, Capote portrays the two murders, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, as victims as well; not of a homicide, but of life’s circumstances. Dick was born mentally handicapped and Perry was physically abused as a child.
What Mother would have thought that she would be given birth to an intelligent young man, who would grow up to be a serial killer? Charles Manson was conceived Charles Milles Maddox on November 12, 1934, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Kathleen Maddox, a 16-year-old young lady who was both a heavy drinker and whore. Kathleen later wedded William Manson, Charles was given his last name Manson, His biological father appears to have been Colonel Walker Scott (May 11, 1910 – December 30, 1954 yet the marriage finished rapidly and Charles was sent to a young men school. Regardless of running over to his mother, she didn't want anything to do with him. Charles was soon living in the city and getting by through negligible crimes.
This shows his morality. Also from the Crucible, the Deputy Governor Danforth is a good example of a person with no integrity because he has no loyalty towards himself or his beliefs. Danforth refused to pardon any of the accused because twelve people have already been hanged for the same crime and he doesn’t want to tarnish the court’s conviction record. There are also many real world examples of people with integrity. For example the McMartin family; Ray Buckey, Virginia McMartin and Peggy McMartin Buckey, all of whom were put on trial for allegedly molesting children at a California preschool in the 1980’s.
The Psychology Serial Killers He is a 32 year old white male. He lived an unstable childhood filled with child abuse and an alcoholic mother. His childhood hobbies included the torture of animals, which he later dismissed as “nothing major”. Growing up, he abused drugs and alcohol and also accepted homosexual tendencies. He currently has a long criminal history that includes serial murder… Nowadays, the media has sensationalized the idea of a human being capable of serial murder and academia has scrutinized the phenomenon of serial murder.
Psychology of a Serial Killer Ted Bundy was an American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper and necrophiliac who assaulted and murdered at least 30 women, and most likely many more, in a number of states between 1974 and 1978. Bundy employed two separate and very distinct modi operandi. In both scenarios his assault methods of choice were blunt force trauma and strangulation as every recovered skull, bar one, showed evidence of blunt trauma, often with broken front teeth. Every cadaver on which an autopsy was possible exhibited evidence of strangulation. He purposely avoided firearms as murder weapons due to the noise they made and the ballistic evidence they left behind.
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.