Ep5 Cradle To Grave Analysis
Criminal Minds Analysis 5
S5, Ep5 Cradle to Grave - a serial killer who impregnates young women and murders them after they have given birth
In this episode of this episode they believed that the killings was done by a single sexual sadist male. The thought this because all the victims were females who was raped and forced to give birth before he killed them. They believed the man went after these girls for a reason and they weren't random because they were all blonde haired blue eyed. They thought that the man may have been going after these girls because they were blonde because possibly a women who rejected him or couldn't bare his children was also the same. The killer would kill the females after they gave birth, so it was believed …show more content…
Many women suffer from postpartum depression after having and or losing children. An article about postpartum depression defined it as, "symptoms of depression occurring from a month to one year following childbirth and thought to be caused in part to dramatic hormonal shifts occurring in conjunction with childbirth" (Piotrowski, 2017, p. 1). Based off of the given information the mother could have been very depressed from losing her child on top of having breast cancer and this was the way the wanted to help her and make her "happy." The fact that the mother had an illness during pregnancy and had lost her child but still had to birth it makes her far more likely to have postpartum depression according to Henninger when she states, "In general, stressful events that occur during pregnancy or delivery (such as illness during pregnancy, pregnancy complications, or a premature birth) increase the risk for developing postpartum depression" (Henninger, 2017, p. 2). Though the reason for the doings of all of these crimes could be for any reason based on evidence given the fact that the wife was 8 months pregnant when she lost her baby and still had to give birth to it must to have had a serious impact on her and could have led to postpartum depression. Causing her to make a deal with her sexual sadistic husband so the both would get something out of it. Although the mother is the one who lost
S5, Ep5 Cradle to Grave - a serial killer who impregnates young women and murders them after they have given birth
In this episode of this episode they believed that the killings was done by a single sexual sadist male. The thought this because all the victims were females who was raped and forced to give birth before he killed them. They believed the man went after these girls for a reason and they weren't random because they were all blonde haired blue eyed. They thought that the man may have been going after these girls because they were blonde because possibly a women who rejected him or couldn't bare his children was also the same. The killer would kill the females after they gave birth, so it was believed …show more content…
Many women suffer from postpartum depression after having and or losing children. An article about postpartum depression defined it as, "symptoms of depression occurring from a month to one year following childbirth and thought to be caused in part to dramatic hormonal shifts occurring in conjunction with childbirth" (Piotrowski, 2017, p. 1). Based off of the given information the mother could have been very depressed from losing her child on top of having breast cancer and this was the way the wanted to help her and make her "happy." The fact that the mother had an illness during pregnancy and had lost her child but still had to birth it makes her far more likely to have postpartum depression according to Henninger when she states, "In general, stressful events that occur during pregnancy or delivery (such as illness during pregnancy, pregnancy complications, or a premature birth) increase the risk for developing postpartum depression" (Henninger, 2017, p. 2). Though the reason for the doings of all of these crimes could be for any reason based on evidence given the fact that the wife was 8 months pregnant when she lost her baby and still had to give birth to it must to have had a serious impact on her and could have led to postpartum depression. Causing her to make a deal with her sexual sadistic husband so the both would get something out of it. Although the mother is the one who lost