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    Evidence that was gathered from books such as “Inside the Minds of Mass Murderers” and “Inside the Minds of Serial Killers‚” both written by Kathertine Ramsland‚ provide information and evidence that killers are in fact made‚ not born. Some of the reasons that people believe that killers are made and not born are due to research by many psychiatrists on serial killers and mass murderers who are on death roe that have committed some of the most heinous crimes. One argument is that there is a set of

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    Ottie Toole: Serial Killer

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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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    A Critical Look at the World of Serial Killers By: Daniel Wise   Serial killing is the rarest form of homicide‚ serial killing is when a person has killed three or more people in a span of time. There is usually a “cool off” period where the individual takes a break between his killings for usually a month or more there are times where this period could be shorter. Their main motivation for killing is typically based on psychological gratification that the killer gets because they have been hurt

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    killed two of his classmates without even thinking. No one would’ve ever thought a young man like him would ever think about killing. All serial killers are often labeled by mental health professionals with various mental health issues; they often become another statistics but they are more than a statistic. Many assume there is a specific profile for serial killers‚ that they all have the same MO‚ they target the same victims‚ however they are more clever than ordinary people‚ and some go undetected

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    Carma In Serial Killers

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    A new police chief investigates a series of macabre murders involving a sadistic killer called “Carma” who traps his victims in driverless horror cars. . BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Recent widow MS. ORSON (30’s) leaves the funeral of her elderly husband. Ms. Orson enters the funeral car when she receives a phone call from a Blackmailer wanting his money. Ms. Orson mocks the blackmailer. The car picks up her lover‚ BRENDAN (30’s). As the funeral car drives‚ Orson and Brendan engage in sex until they discover

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    behaviors shared amongst serial killers throughout their childhood and adults lives. More specifically‚ the psychopathological triad explains a combination of three childhood characteristics of many serial killers (Chalmers‚ 2009). These characteristics include enuresis‚ pyromania‚ and animal torture. Although these characteristics may exist throughout one’s childhood‚ they are simply red flags and do not necessarily mean an individual will‚ in fact‚ become a serial killer. Enuresis‚ or bed-wetting

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    both play significant roles in the upbringing of a child and throughout this developmental stage in adolescence it is easy to see how serial killers’ minds are formed. Not only are nature and nurture both contributing factors to shaping psychology but also individual influential life instances for each person. The nurture‚ or caretaking‚ in which a person is brought up can be just as influential as the nature‚ or heredity‚ on the child’s psyche. Every single person has their own story of their life;

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    Serial killings are individual murders that happen at different times by the same killer. Murderers have gone years without being caught. There are cases that go unsolved. Those who do get caught are at the mercy of the court. Extreme punishments include the death penalty and even life triple life sentences in prison. The Encyclopedia Britannica defines serial killing as “the unlawful homicide of at least two people‚ carried out in a series over a period of time.” This definition is widely accepted

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    Serial Killers Research Paper Serial Killers: The Evil Inside Serial killers may live seemingly average lives‚ but they are con men/women. Their childhood‚ mental disorders‚ and social standing affect the very aspect of who they are. Serial killers may seem to live normal lives‚ but behind their mask is true evil lurking in the shadows. Serial killers come from all walks of life. Anyone could be living next door to one or across the country. Their brains usually are not the same as a “normal”

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    watching them profile serial killers‚ I got a better understanding of similarities that serial killers have in common. I just watched an episode of Ted Bundy on how he confessed to all the murders he did right before he got executed. This source is fitting in with my research‚ because it gave me more aspects to look at and study about why serial killers kill. Davis‚ Jeff. "Criminal Minds." Criminal Minds. CBS. 22 Sept. 2005. Television John Wayne Gacy‚ was a 1970’s serial killer from Cook County Illinois

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