The Making of a Notorious Serial Killer July 7th‚ 2012 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
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Edmund Kemper was one of the most gruesome serial killers in American history. He was born on December 18‚ 1948 in Burbank‚ California. At a young age Kemper was already showing signs of sociopathic behavior‚ he would torture animals and killed 2 of the family’s cats. Kemper had two near death experiences when his sister pushed him in front of a train that nearly ran him over another sister had pushed him at the deep end of a swimming pool nearly drowning him. Being traumatized and showing signs
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Ottie Toole‚ a serial killer from Jacksonville‚ Florida‚ was an accomplice of Henry Lee Lucas‚ who was also a serial killer. They met at a soup kitchen in Jacksonville‚ Tennessee‚ where they began a sexual relationship and crime partnership. “Toole later claimed to have accompanied Lucas in 108 murders‚ sometimes at the behest of a cult called “The Hands of Death”. Lucas later recanted his confessions‚ saying he made such statements only to improve his living conditions in jail.” (Newton‚ 2015)
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Every day is filled with death. A human‚ a dog‚ a bird‚ a mouse‚ a bee. Which life is worth more? Do they even have any worth? It is estimated that every second two persons die somewhere in the world. Every minute someone is expected to die of cancer in the U.S alone. There are over seven billion humans alive today. Seven billion. What would that number look like if you took away one‚ or two‚ or ten? Still pretty similar. It is this fact that makes me wonder whether any human death is meaningful
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because‚ as a serial killer‚ there’s a lot more to him than what his crimes told. Something that sets him apart from most was his sadistic tendencies‚ meaning he received sexual pleasure from inflicting pain and other brutal acts on someone. While in mid brutality‚ Kürten would reach a climax in his sexual excitement‚ this lead some to go as far as identifying him to have been a psychopath. Kürten’s unusual obsession with bestiality sets him in a specific category from other sadistic killers. The slitting
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Tom had been on the go since six O’clock that morning‚ had confirmed that a brutal rape and murder of a woman was the work of a serial-killer‚ had interview the victims friends and acquaintances‚ and spent hours going over phone and computer records‚ without coming up with one damn piece of evidence‚ or anything he believed had led him closer to finding a direction in which to turn. The only break‚ and the only food‚ he’d gotten all day was the quick lunch with Lila‚ that had been mostly business
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Why Ted? Theodore Robert Cowell‚ better known to the world as Ted Bundy‚ was a serial killer in the United States during the 20th century. It is unknown exactly the number of victims Ted had during his killing spree but himself has been quoted as admitting to at least 30 murders crossing seven different states. Authorities ae under the assumption that Ted could be responsible for over a hundred murders during his life. To this day‚ it puzzles authorities as to how Ted could continue his heinous crimes
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motive‚ but who needs one? There are 10‚000 abandoned houses here and some still hold the remnants of their previous owners. What can a politician do for a town so messed up that thousands of abandoned houses are simply part of the scenery‚ where a serial killer can dump bodies at random without the fear of being caught? The answer is nothing‚ and they know it but will never say it. There have been plans- some of them good- but none of them effective enough to save a lost cause. As long as the city claims
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The response we give or receive from the media regarding serial killers differs from person to person depending on the environment they are in or were brought up in. Violence is something that occurs everyday and everywhere no matter how much most of us wish it didn’t. The media plays a large role in how we receive our information regarding serial killers and that is not just speaking about the news and newspapers. We here about serial killers in fiction books‚ magazines‚ movies and television sitcoms
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Serial Killers: America ’s New Epidemic. Serial killers have been around since the dawn of history‚ their numbers multiplying exponentially within the past five decades. In recent years‚ words such as "baffling" and "mysterious" have become routine to describe the growing phenomenon. It is imperative to develop a workable solution and general understanding of these predators in human form as a new wave of serial murders reach crisis rates in this millennium. More than fifteen-hundred serial killers
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