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    “Why We Crave Horror Movies” In1982‚ Stephen King‚ a renowned horror author‚ published a very brief essay titled‚ “Why We Crave Horror Movies” and then submitted it to the Playboy Magazine. Around that time‚ a few year prior‚ a mass murder and serial killer named Ted Bundy‚ who was at his prime between 1784 and 1778‚ was found connected to at least 36 murders. Ted Bundy proclaimed that his reason behind his mass murders were due to pornography‚ which can be found in any Playboy magazine. Knowing this

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    Lauren Poulin 004-86-8630 English 101 William Henry Burry At the end of the nineteenth century a dark cloud loomed over London’s East End. This dark cloud would soon be known throughout all of England as the country’s most notorious serial killer‚ known as Jack the Ripper. Jack was believed to be a well-dressed‚ shorter man in his late twenties or early thirties (Beadle). One of the many suspects in the murder fit that mold as well. William Henry Bury is a solid suspect to be Jack the Ripper

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    Crime and its effects on society (P3 P4 M1) Theory 1 Bandura the Social Learning Theory The Social Learning Theory says that people can learn by watching other people perform the behaviour. Observational learning explains the nature of children to learn behaviours by watching the behaviour of the people around them‚ and eventually‚ imitating them. With the "Bobo Doll" experiment‚ Bandura included an adult who is tasked to act aggressively toward a Bobo Doll while the children observe him. Later

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    Crime and Punishment is one of the most famous works by the Russian novelist Fydor Dostoevsky. The novel begins with the double murder of an elderly woman and her sister. They were murdered by Raskolnikoff. While at first it seems like he committed the murder because of his need for money‚ as the story develops his motive seems to be seeing if he could get away with the crime. Much of the action of the novel revolves around exactly that question: will the murderer get away with the crime. However

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    There were screams all around the room... There were screams all around the room and I could sense dangers beyond the door. Without lingering for the next second‚ I banged on the door with as much force I could gather as I knew the door was locked inside and after a few attempts‚ my effort bore fruits. The door was opened. I stared in disbelief as the sight was simply too appalling to behold. The room was lingering with eerie silence just after the panic and screams I heard. Even though the

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    “This is the grand finale of a life poorly sent and the end result is just overwhelmingly depressing…..a sick pathetic‚ miserable life story‚ that’s all it is.” (Dahmer) On November 28‚ 1994 Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was murdered by 25-year-old Christopher Scarver with an iron bar from an exercise machine while cleaning the bathroom‚ which was adjacent from the prison gym. The blow to his skull killed him instantly. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer‚ born May 21‚ 1960 at the Evangelical Deaconess Hospital

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    Case study discussion on the application on the forensic Odontology to cases documented in the literature Bite marks are defined as an injury in skin caused by contact from teeth which shows the representational pattern of the oral structures. This is stated in the American board of forensic Odontology bite mark terminology guidelines (1995). Identification of bite marks is achieved by the comparison of the presumption that each indentation is unique and that the feature has been accurately

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    Aileen Wuornos was a female serial killer who killed 6 men in a 1-year period (1989-1990) across the state highways of Florida. She worked as a prostitute‚ picking up potential clients from means of hitchhiking. Long before her killings‚ Aileen lived an abnormal and rough early life. Her father committed suicide in prison (imprisoned for child molestation) and her mother abandoned her and her brother Keith. Aileen and Keith were raised by their grandparents in which Aileen claimed that she was

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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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    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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