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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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    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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    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 open space it remains a playground for the twisted games of impulsive men‚ and the people here have no choice

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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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    Ted Bundy: A Serial Killer

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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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    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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    Professor Strong Serial Killers as Heroes in Popular Culture 11 March‚ 2017 Final Essay Serial killers are not typically thought of as accepted members of society in the eyes of the mainstream public. Thoughts and opinions of serial killers can change if one looks deeper into the reasoning behind their murders. Some of the various reasons why serial killers commit murder are; because of a traumatic event or an abusive childhood that directly influences the way the killer perceives other individuals

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    A person who is classified as a serial killer has to have killed 3 or more people with a cooling period of about 30 days between each murder. (Ronald M. Homes‚ 1998) The people involved in these events are the killers and the victims‚ whether the killer is murdering people he or she knows and for a specific reason‚ but sometimes the killer doesn’t know the victims and is just killing them out of pleasure. Serial killers have been around since time began but they have different from then and now.

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    Serial killer ‚ “a person who commits a series of murders‚ often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic‚ predictable behavior pattern”. This is the definition of a serial killer. In our history there has been multiple serial killers‚ you could even say way too many. Ted Bundy was born on November 24‚ 1946 in Burlington‚ Vermont. When born his mother Eleanor Cowell kept him hidden as an illegitimate child. Eleanor was an unmarried twenty two year old. She delivered his to

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