Men Who Kill: Serial Killers
Men Who Kill: Serial Killers
Gwen Morse
University of the Rockies
Abstract Previous research results regarding the characteristics of male serial killers has long been inadequate and unstable at best. Although there has been little agreement amongst researchers, limited recognition has been given to the Hickey Trauma-Controlled Method (2002) as it pertains the sexual motivations of serial killers. As a result, in 2004, Dr. William Amdt, Dr. Tammy Hiepas, and Dr. Juhu Kim conducted a quantitative study, attempting to address known past difficulties and inaccuracies. They hoped to provide additional solid data and a conceptual framework, while also focusing on providing other strong, measurable data. The study used the HTCM (Hickey, …show more content…
These ritualized re-enactment fantasies, usually sexual in nature and extremely aggressive, are the common thread connecting serial killers (Amdt, Hiepas, & Kim, 2004). There are also facilitating factors that drive the urge to kill such as alcohol and drugs. The fantasies become addictive. Even as they escalate, causing the killer to change behavior to accommodate the fantasy, they eventually become unsatisfying. This prompts even more deviant and violent behavior, pushing the killer into phase two (Amdt, Hiepas, & Kim, …show more content…
He was responsible for 36 known rape and murder victims, but he professed to over a hundred. Ted was the illegitimate son of a young unwed mother and raised by his religious grandparents. He began life thinking his mother was his "sister". At a young age, he went to live with his "sister" in Washington, where she married Ted 's stepfather, John Bundy. Ted showed signs of socio-pathology, and a "dark side" (Amdt, Hiepas, & Kim, 2004) as young boy of 3 years. As a child, then teenager, he graduated to "window peeping" and stealing. Ted Bundy was intelligent and handsome man. He completed a Bachelor 's Degree in Psychology and started law school in Utah. He was also without a conscience and manipulative (Ted Bundy, 2014). Mimicking Hickey 's Trauma Controlled Model, Bundy experienced cumulative rejection by women, first from his mother and the religious grandparents. Later when his fiancée, who he deeply loved, abruptly ended their engagement, he became more angry and bitter towards women. Shortly after the end of this relationship, Bundy began his reign of murder and terror spanning several states, and leaving dead bodies in his wake. His first arrest and conviction in 1975 was for kidnapping and rape. He escaped during transport, but after only eight days of freedom, he was apprehended and returned to custody. In 1977, he convicted of another rape and murder. He escaped custody once again killed several female college students in Florida before
Gwen Morse
University of the Rockies
Abstract Previous research results regarding the characteristics of male serial killers has long been inadequate and unstable at best. Although there has been little agreement amongst researchers, limited recognition has been given to the Hickey Trauma-Controlled Method (2002) as it pertains the sexual motivations of serial killers. As a result, in 2004, Dr. William Amdt, Dr. Tammy Hiepas, and Dr. Juhu Kim conducted a quantitative study, attempting to address known past difficulties and inaccuracies. They hoped to provide additional solid data and a conceptual framework, while also focusing on providing other strong, measurable data. The study used the HTCM (Hickey, …show more content…
These ritualized re-enactment fantasies, usually sexual in nature and extremely aggressive, are the common thread connecting serial killers (Amdt, Hiepas, & Kim, 2004). There are also facilitating factors that drive the urge to kill such as alcohol and drugs. The fantasies become addictive. Even as they escalate, causing the killer to change behavior to accommodate the fantasy, they eventually become unsatisfying. This prompts even more deviant and violent behavior, pushing the killer into phase two (Amdt, Hiepas, & Kim, …show more content…
He was responsible for 36 known rape and murder victims, but he professed to over a hundred. Ted was the illegitimate son of a young unwed mother and raised by his religious grandparents. He began life thinking his mother was his "sister". At a young age, he went to live with his "sister" in Washington, where she married Ted 's stepfather, John Bundy. Ted showed signs of socio-pathology, and a "dark side" (Amdt, Hiepas, & Kim, 2004) as young boy of 3 years. As a child, then teenager, he graduated to "window peeping" and stealing. Ted Bundy was intelligent and handsome man. He completed a Bachelor 's Degree in Psychology and started law school in Utah. He was also without a conscience and manipulative (Ted Bundy, 2014). Mimicking Hickey 's Trauma Controlled Model, Bundy experienced cumulative rejection by women, first from his mother and the religious grandparents. Later when his fiancée, who he deeply loved, abruptly ended their engagement, he became more angry and bitter towards women. Shortly after the end of this relationship, Bundy began his reign of murder and terror spanning several states, and leaving dead bodies in his wake. His first arrest and conviction in 1975 was for kidnapping and rape. He escaped during transport, but after only eight days of freedom, he was apprehended and returned to custody. In 1977, he convicted of another rape and murder. He escaped custody once again killed several female college students in Florida before