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    Capital Punishment: Society’s Self-Defense”. The article was wrote to explain Capital Punishment and clarify a few consequences and risks. Young explains that capital punishment is used against vicious serial killers as a way to keep society safe. In the paper Young uses example Ted Bundy‚ a heartless killer‚ as one who is deserving of punishment. She goes to list several victims who were never seen again after coming in contact with Bundy. She describes Bundy being caught with a bashing bar and with his

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    entrepreneurship for all people. Two television series that incorporate this principle are Dexter and Breaking Bad. Dexter focuses on a blood splatter analyst named Dexter who works to find clues/evidence in crime scenes by day‚ and secretly is a vigilante serial killer by night. Breaking Bad encompasses a chemistry teacher named Walter White who finds out that he has contracted lung cancer and must find a way to pay for his medical bills. Given his expertise with chemical properties‚ he decides to cook and sell

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    Arguably‚ this is a significantly more traditional and healthier upbringing for youth compared to the one described in the movie. Regarding his academic narrative as portrayal in the movie versus real life‚ Ted Bundy’s character is a failing‚ hopeless student whose struggles are used to entertain and heighten the emotions for its audience. However‚ Bundy was more than a satisfactory student with high ambitions which eventually drove him to go to law school and motivated his pursuits in politics.

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    Short’s mouth had been slashed all they way to her ears with multiple cuts to her thighs and breasts. With no name to put to the body the press gave her one taken from a popular crime film of the time. In 1991 the hotel was home to a twisted serial killer homage to Ramirez‚ Jack Unterweger. Unterweger was an Austrian visiting Los Angeles under the guise of a true-crime writer researching prostitute killings in the United States. He had already killed seven prostitutes before coming to America‚ which

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    victims. He is known to have killed at least 17 young women‚ although only 12 bodies were ever found. A recent television report‚ though‚ says the number was 37‚ and an FBI spokesman commented that Hansen could actually be one of the country’s worst killers. He also admitted to about 30 rapes in the same period‚ yet never showed any sign of remorse for

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    Behaviors and Symptoms of a Psychopath Psychopaths are usually associated with sadistic extremes like Ted Bundy or Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs‚ but not all psychopaths are necessarily this obvious to spot. Some psychopaths live an entire life without acting on their instinctual need to control and hurt others. Psychopaths can be divided into 4 separate subgroups based on their behavior. There is the primary psychopath‚ the secondary psychopath‚ the distempered psychopath‚ and the

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    Jeffrey Dahmer had one goal in mind; finding a completely compliant sexual partner‚ essentially making his motivation for killing necrophilia. Dahmer was a closet alcoholic and also suffered from low self-esteem. He is one of the most notorious serial killers in American true crime history. On July 24‚ 1991‚ the news broke. Thirty-one year old Jeffrey Dahmer had been taken into custody in Milwaukee‚ Wisconsin. Shortly before‚ police had been alerted by a terrified man‚ Tracy Edwards‚ still in handcuffs

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    Aileen Wuornos America’s First Female Serial Killer Diamond Caldwell Dr. Tutor ENG 112 Aileen Wuornos was born on the 29th of February 1956 in Rochester‚ Michigan as Aileen Carol Pittman the second child to Leo and Diane Pittman. According to Biography.com Wuornos’ parents had a troubled marriage. Aileen’s father Leo Pittman was a child molester and her mother Diane was a 14 year old who was incapable of caring for two children. (“Biography.com”) Aileen’s father was convicted of raping a seven

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    The term ‘serial killer’ was established in the 1970s to signify the unfamiliar form of murder‚ where the individual takes psychological gratification in taking multiple lives. Throughout history the world has confronted a countless amount of horrifying serial killers‚ but the real question is: who was the first? Herman Webster Mudgett‚ or more infamously known as H.H. Holmes‚ was one of the first documented serial killers in America. It is estimated he has murdered approximately 200 people‚ nine

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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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