According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary the word monster is defined as an imaginary creature that is typically large, ugly, and frightening. But is that what our modern day society really believes a monster is? Through time what people expect to see in a monster has changed. When you think of how people originally thought of aliens and vampires, you realize it’s a lot different than what we think of them today. Originally vampires were thought of being a corpse that would leave its grave at night and feed off the living by biting their necks. They weren’t able to be exposed to the sunlight or be in the sight of garlic. The idea of vampires have been around for millions of years and they have always represented something very horrifying.…
Serial killers. Numerous books, movies, and video games revolve around this subject. There seems to be an obsession with these crimes and those that commit them.…
At one time he opened up a camera shop in Stevens Point, Wisconsin and began doing freelance photography for the newspapers all around the state. Eventually he moved his shop to the first level of their two story home where he could keep an eye on Jean and the four children. Lou was very distrusting of Jean, he always was accusing her of cheating on him. The back room of the camera shop that was converted into a darkroom and he would develop all of his own photographs. He had taken photographs of murder scenes where women had been chopped into many pieces and those pieces were scattered around in a field. He showed these photographs to his daughters to frighten them into submission. Lou would tell his daughters that if they talk to anyone about anything or if they would be bad they would get cut up just like that woman did. Violence daily was Lou’s method of control within the home and fear controlled Jean and the children. For Lou it was do as I say and I will not beat you…
Luis Garavito, who I will describe as a human animal on my research is the worst serial killer in the world. His full name is Luis Alfredo Garavito, born on January 25, 1957 Colombia, this animal serial killer was convicted of the horrible killing 189 boys in the 1990s. He is also known as “la bestia” the beast, this animal mainly focused on very poor neighborhoods and looks for kids at the age of six to sixteen. He choose poor kids because he knew they will never be reported as missing because they will never pay no attention if they were missed or just runaways to their own families.…
In today's society, people are selfish and don't do anything unless it benefits themselves in one way or another. The reason why I like a good monster story is because they are based on our everyday society. All of the stories we have gone over this far throughout the year are for the most part have some connection with the real world. Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein, and serial killers are all monsters that have a special connection to everyday society.…
It was January 1974, and the people of Wichita, Kansas were staying up all night, with their guns in their hands, ready for the unthinkable to happen. Four members of the Ortero family had just been brutally murdered in their own home, in the middle of the day. Julie and Joseph, the mother and father, had been found tied at the hands and wrists, strangled, in their bedroom. Beside them lay their nine year old son Joey, who had been murdered the same way. Even after the police discovered their bodies they were still not prepared for what they found in the basement. The Orteros' daughter, Josie, had been stripped and hung from a sewer pipe. This was just the very beginning of the serial killer career of…
Throughout the history, authorities have made an effort to identify the serial killers’ life, define the explanation of them and also seek either what lead or encourage them to become a serial killer so that many studies are still conducted for the purpose of reaching these questions’ answers. Moreover, the topic of the serial killer is at all times found interesting by means of the people, so many films or series have made such as Dexter or Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Additively, thanks to the investigations of The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the serial killer has categorized into 3 different types which are medical, organized and disorganized serial killer.…
When thinking of someone to write about I preferred to research a rapist or killer of women. (You could say, “When thinking of someone to write about I prefer to research a murderer that preyed upon women.”) (Also could think about revising this statement to make it smoother) I felt I could relate to these innocent victims because I am a woman myself. The mind of a serial rapist and a murderer is something one that is sane may not be able to comprehend. A serial rapist and murderer that intrigues me is Gary Heidnik. His brutality and the way he showed no apparent remorse is beyond me. It takes someone to really look within the mind of a deranged killer to ever understand them, though I never fully will. It is important to look at all aspects of Heidnik’s life to gain knowledge of his pasts (past) and what made him notorious. For a preview of this notorious serial rapist and murderer this next sentence (the following) explains it all. “ In essence, Gary Heidnik ran a mini-slave colony of African American women in his basement, keep (keeping) them chained, abusing and beating them, and feeding them a blend of dog food and human flesh,” (Philbin & Philbin).…
One of the most famous questions of all time asks, “Why do serial killers, kill?” Everyone is different in their own way, so no one can really answer that question specifically. Dr. Helen Morrison, author of “My Life Among The Serial Killers” interviewed ten famous serial killers to try to answer this question. She found that almost all of them had similar characteristics besides killing. Unlike what most people believe, she surprisingly found that these characteristics did not include insanity, child abuse, or drug abuse. Instead she explains that their most common trait is that they have an emotional age of an infant. Other characteristics include fluent lying, the lacking ability to comprehend that they did anything wrong, and no memory of the murders however when they do remember they show no mercy.…
According to Foucault “starting in the nineteenth century, […] monstrosity is systematically suspected of being behind all criminality. Every criminal could well be a monster (Foucault, Abnormal…
When Carl hears this he claims he will kill his wife without thinking about the…
I feel that this estimation is too low. I think that one of the most difficult aspects of serial crimes is determining whether or not a new crime has been committed by a random killer, a new serial killer, or a serial killer already in the system. With the popularity of crime shows on television, from the unrealistic solve the crime in an hour with little to no evidence, to true crime shows, criminals are able to easily see techniques that law enforcement use. While some serial killers are completely ritualistic and will not change techniques regardless of the fact that this can and has led to detection, I feel that there are many killers out there that are willing and able to adapt their killing style in order to avoid detection. I feel…
So it's only slightly ok to agree if its happened to you? Rape, serial killers, and child molesters/convicted pedophiles/ sex offenders, these people are not human, they are MONSTERS, Some with not even the slightest sympathy to what they've done. They ruin the lives of the victims and it ripples across the entire family and people around them. It effects EVERYONE. I see all these stories on the news about these horrible beasts. My heart breaks completely not even imagining the pain. If that happened to my loved ones, I cant even imagine what my rage would lead me to do. Knowing that they were hurt in the worst way possible, and not being there to hurt the savage that would such a thing in the first place. The victims lives are changed completely,…
After World War two was over, a lot of things changed for the Germany. Nobody trust them anymore, people blamed them for everything, and also nobody was willing to help them. Everything was ruined and destroyed, and so they needed to build everything from the start. Also now there was two Germanys. GDR and FRG. They were all Germans, but they had different beliefs. Their idea about who was responsible for the war and everything else was different. The difference is obvious in The Murderers Are Among Us and The Bridge. In The Murderers Are Among Us, most of them were guilty somehow. While in The Bridge, the idea is that all the Generals and Hitler were responsible for anything that happened, and the rest of them had no power or guilt about anything…
I enjoy reading your post. More often than not, mass murderers tend to target particular victims to avenge perceived injustices. There are also, of course, random and indiscriminate patterns. In almost all cases, innocent bystanders get caught in the crossfire. The more random the pattern, the more likely the perceived injustice is small and insignificant. What can be done to protect society completely from mass murder?…