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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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    Think of serial killer. Does he kill because it is in his genes? No matter what his parents did to raise him; he would have been a violent‚ serial killer no matter what. On the other hand‚ did his environment shape him to be a serial killer? Such as‚ his parent’s did not pay him enough attention‚ or he was abused as a child. Nature and nurture are factors that have come to be recognized as playing or interacting roles in development. Nature refers to all the genes and hereditary factors that influences

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    Famous Serial Killers JACK THE RIPPER‚ JEFFERY DAHMER‚ BTK‚ AILEEN WOURNOS BY: CAMERON GADDI. ALINA DAYLEY‚ SAMANTHA DEMATTIA‚ MICHELLE CAMPOPIANO‚ KARLA HUERTA‚ FRANCISCO LOPEZ Jack The Ripper Jack the Ripper Most famous letter Annie Chapman The Rippers HIstory  Jack ‚ an English 1888 serial killer‚ killed many years ago yet his identity remains a mystery legend. Many woman were suspected to have been killed by him but only 5 were accepted to have been murdered by the Ripper. The Scotland

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    of a Serial Killer. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://serial-killers.tumblr.com/post/14691116653/serial-killers-101-the-22-levels-of-evil-dr John Wayne Gacy - Famous Last Words. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://crime.about.com/od/history/qt/lastwords_gracy.htm John Wayne Gacy | Murderpedia‚ the encyclopedia of murderers. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://murderpedia.org/male.G/g1/gacy-john-wayne.htm Profile of John Wayne Gacy the "Killer Clown". (n.d.). Retrieved from http://crime.about.com/od/serial/p/gacy

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    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. Extreme killing: Understanding Mass Murder‚ answers questions such as; what is the difference between a serial killer or a mass murderer? Who commit these crimes? And what are the different motivating factors behind such crimes? We we even look for an answer to what is the difference between sociopaths and psychopaths? The book delves

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    Its amazing what lengths people go to just to hurt someone. Marie Antoinette and Edmund Kemper had both become serial killers. Edmund made himself out to be normal‚ but wasn’t. Edmund Kemper did’t have any logical reason to do it other than just for fun‚ but was very cruel. Marie Antoinette died during the revolution and came back centuries later as a ghost just to hurt the families that hurt her. Marie Antionette and Edmund Kemper both shared reasons for killing people by their tactics‚ attributes

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    Sydney Mayfield Term Paper Jeffrey Dahmer Jeffrey Dahmer was born in Milwaukee‚ Wisconsin on May 21‚ 1960. Dahmer made his first kill at age eighteen. Notorious sex offender and serial killer‚ Dahmer went on to kill and molest a total of seventeen men between 1978 and 1991. Upon arrest in 1992‚ Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to fifteen consecutive life sentences. He was then murdered by a fellow prisoner in November 1994. A surgery at the age of six‚ the birth of a younger brother‚ and a family

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    Jeffery Dahmer is one of the most famous criminals in Wisconsin to this current date. Born in Milwaukee‚ Wisconsin‚ Jeffery Dahmer lived to be what would be called the normal life. Dahmer had grown up in a stable household and had a normal childhood until the age of four. Jeffrey Dahmer was born to Lionel and Joyce Dahmer on May 21‚ 1960 with one younger brother that seemed to change his life when he was born. He did not have many friends but that never stopped him from enjoying his childhood life

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    The Zodiac Killer is one of the great unsolved serial killer mysteries of all time‚ taking only second place to Jack the Ripper. Even though police investigated over 2‚500 potential suspects‚ the case was never officially solved. There were a few suspects that stood out‚ but the forensic technology of the times was not advanced enough to nail any one of them conclusively. This October‚ 1966 killing began a ghoulish series of murders that panicked the people of the San Francisco area. For years

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    Ted Bundy was an American serial killer born on November 24‚1946 in Burlington‚ Vermont who started a tirade of murders from 1973-1978. Due to the time area in which ted Bundy was conceived Cowell his unwed biological mother moved to Philadelphia for her parents to raises Ted Bundy. The exact way he discovered the cover up between his mother and grandparents is not known‚ the history of his grandfather foreshadowed abuse in Bundy’s life. Allegations of the grandfather throwing one of his daughters

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