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• Serial Killers – kill 3 or more people over a period of a month – Without a cooling off period
• Mass murderers – kill many (four or more) all at once; genocide
• Spree killer – kill many at 2 or more locations with no break in between
Who are serial killers?
• A person who kills several people one after the other, seemingly in a random fashion.
• Often times victims share a common trait such as physical appearances
• Usually they have activated some psychological trigger in the killer’s mind
Dysfunctional Lives
• Some of them kill compulsively due to power or sexual urges.
• Most of these serial killers have a rich imaginary life where they are superior and powerful, and they are successful people.
• Attempted suicide rates, abandoned fathers
• Physically abused and bullied as kids
Other Traits
• Pyromaniacs
• Alcoholics, criminals, liars, mental disorders
• Kill animals
• Lower middle class
• Trouble keeping jobs
Jeffrey Dahmer• Early life:
– Loner in school– Searched for road kill /
animals to do ‘surgery’– Kicked out of military– Heavy drinker at OSU– Public indecency– Eventually moved to
Milwaukee
The Crimes• Homosexual
• Antisocial personality disorder
• Registered sex offender
• 1979-1991 -17 young adult males
• Murderer, necrophiliac, cannibal
Trial & Imprisonment• Very compliant with lawyers and police
• Went to prison in Wisconsin – spent first year in isolation
• Known as JD by many inmates and was well-liked (mostly)
• November 28, 1994 – found dead in pool of blood after being heavily beaten by other inmate
Today
• Apartment complex torn down
• Parents still reside in Medina County, Ohio
• One of most notorious serial killers in American history
Jack the Ripper
• Responsible for the murders of (at least) 5 women in London in 1888
• AKA the White Chapel Murderer
• First killer in large metropolitan area with literate people– Media played large role
• Brutal murders with knife
• Internal organs were surgically removed, faces mutilated
• Identity still unknown
• Sent letters to media
Zodiac Killer
• Responsible for five known murders in Northern California in the 1960s
• Could be as many as 37
• Targeted people age16 - 29
• Left a crosshair like symbol in letters to the Police
• Identity remains unknown
Ed Gein• Early life:
– As a child: bullied, feminine behavior
– No father, mom was abusive
– Not allowed to make friends
• 15 bodies found – all women
• Dug up middle-aged women that resembled his mother
David Berkowitz
• “Son of Sam”
• Responsible for killing six women and wounding several others in shootings in the 1970s in New York City.
• Arrested by the Police on the 10th of August, 1977 outside his apartment in New York.
Ted Bundy
• Raped & murdered women between 1974-1978
• Used his charm & charisma
• On the 24th of January, 1989, Ted Bundy was sent to the electric chair.
BTK Killer
• Dennis Rader
• Strangled / stabbed / suffocated his victims from 1974-1991
• Bind – Torture – Kill
• Serving life in prison in Kansas
• 10 victims
John Wayne Gacy
• Father was abusive• Killed at least 33 young
men between 1972-1978• Pogo the Clown• Many buried in crawl
space• Lethally injected in 1994
Cult of followers devoted to me
Lived at Spahn Ranch in California
Searched for bottomless pit for coming race war
Manson claimed Helter Skelter
Reached over 100 individuals
Jonestown Massacre
• Jim Jones
• The People’s Temple
• Moved to Guyana to escape capitalism
• Agricultural commune
• Death of Congressman Ryan
• The murder-suicide – 918 died
The Branch Dividan
• David Koresh• Seventh Day Adventists
• Believed that apocalypse was coming and God was making his second appearance
• Compound in Waco, Texas
• February 28, 1993
• Federal forces seized compound in search of illegal firearms and explosives
• Gun fire erupts, 4 agents & 6 Davidians killed
• FBI launches siege that ends 50 days later
• 74 deaths