Serial Killer Patterns

The killings and the minds of a serial killer have long fascinated the public both fictional and non fiction. It gives the public the sense of fear, scaring the population and questions if they are going to get caught while it is also repulsing to think someone has died by a person’s own hand. A serial killer is considered as someone who has committed more than three murders within a certain time frame. They are also usually white male with a high average intelligence. Although serial killers are unique and different in the way they kill, there are similar stances that they all have, or at least a similar pattern they follow. Whether it is a serial killer in real life or in movies, it can be frightening to exam a killer or even know whether
For example, Buffalo Bill’s pattern is choosing women as his victims. He carefully chooses them based on their weight, clothing size, and possible their skin tone. He then tricks them by portraying helpless and captures them by physically hurting them making them unconciousd. Second, he traps them in a well for a couple of days and tortures them until he is ready to kill. Third, he shoots his victim and cuts off their skin, dumping the body in the water. This is his pattern, his fantasy or a ritual performance for him to give self satisfaction. A second character is Norman Bates. He is portrayed in Hitchcock’s film and also is portrayed in a television show as a teenager. Norman pattern is simple yet dangerous. His victims are usually women who he finds attractive, thus giving him a sexual feeling. Because of this sexual feeling, it has been implanted in his mind that it is wrong (the reason will be discussed in the next paragraph) and that he needs to get rid of the source. His next step is forcefully killing his victim either by his own hands or using a weapon that is close by. However, in his case, he blacks out as he does not know or remember committing the act. Third character, Dexter Morgan is a regular person working at a police department during the day, yet kills his victims at night. His selling pattern is picking his victims based on their record. (He has more access for working at a police station, he has files to many different criminals). Second, he gets to know his victims by following and even befriending them by acting as a different person. Third, he captures them by injecting them with animal tranqualizer and wrapping them to a table in his “kill room”. Fourth pattern is talking to hiss victims about their crimes