Homical Triad Character Analysis

Mind of Death: A Look inside the Mentality of a Serial Killer It’s a chilly fall night in London 1888. There is something strangely off, as the wind whistles through the dark and damp alley ways. London is a dark and dangerous place at night but Catherine Eddowes decides to take her chances in Whitechapel. She has heard the stories of young women being mutilated near the very streets she walks, but she thinks that could never happen to her. As she walks she can feel the hair on the back of her neck stand on end as if she is being watched. Faintly she can hear someone laughing maniacally. She moves more quickly as she hears the slightest sound of footsteps behind her. She begins to run as the footsteps get closer and closer. She whips around but no one is in sight as the fog obstructs her view. She breathes a sigh of relief, and turns back around. That is when she sees
If the characteristics display themselves the odds are overwhelming to the fact that the person most likely will become a serial criminal. This is referred to as the MacDonald Triad, or Homicidal Triad. As summarized from John Macdonald, associate professor of Psychiatry at the University Of Colorado School Of Medicine, in The Threat to Kill, if the stages of the triad are complete the tendency for a child to become a criminal is almost definite. The first stage in the triad is bed wetting (also called enuresis). The cause of this is unclear but it is thought to humiliate the child especially if the child is belittled by a parent. Many times serial killers as children will torture animals, usually birds at first and continuing this pattern of violence with other animals before killing a pet; be it their own or a neighbor’s. The final part of the triad is the tendency to set fires (125-130). As the child grows the release of rage and hostility will present itself in a variety of ways, and in most cases the release of rage will