Essays on Serial Killer

John Wayne Gacy, a serial killer better known as Pogo The Clown. At a young age, he lived through an abusive childhood that molded him into the likable clown everyone appeared to enjoy but little to be known about the devil himself behind the costume....

It was a brisk December afternoon in Cook County, Illinois and everything seemed to be going well. Children were out of school, celebrating the holidays, while parents were out and about making a final mad dash for Christmas gifts. The year was 1978 and everyone...

“Psychopathy is a clinical construct characterized by a core set of affective, interpersonal, lifestyle, and antisocial features”. Psychopathic individuals tend to be insensitive, lack empathy for others, and display little guilt or remorse for their actions. Psychopaths often inflict physical damage to strangers or even...

Within this essay discusses the paintings produced by the serial killer John Wayne Gacy is his morality presented within his work and should the aesthetic value of his work be affected by his morality. In this essay the work of Gacy that will be referenced...

John Wayne Gacy, also known as the Killer Clown, is a rapist and serial killer who is known to have committed over 33 murders of male young adults over a 10 year period. He was born in 1942 in a low-income neighborhood of Chicago to...

John Wayne Gacy was active between 1972 and 1978, He was a murderer/rapist with 33 known homicide victims all identified as young men and boys between the ages of 14 – 21. While Gacy was not slaughtering people, he was an outgoing neighbour every so...

The actions of serial killers shock many people and they wonder why serial killers do what they do, and what would make a killer more malicious than another killer. John Wayne Gacy and Jeffery Dahmer, two of the most infamous serial killers of the 20th...

Something sad and dark lies behind the smile of some clowns. These characters, which were thought to express joy, are often the nightmare of many children. Above all, for those who grew up reading Stephen King and his classic, ‘It.’ But the worst part is...

John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer who raped, tortured and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 in Cook County, Illinois, Chicago. Gacy’s known murders were committed inside his Norwood...

The factors of a person’s past can influence the way they will succeed or fail in the future. For example, John Wayne Gacy had a horrible childhood and from those experiences became one of the deadliest serial killers. The terrible early life he went through...

The 90s have been shocked this time by a woman who will later be called the first female serial killer in America. Aileen Wuornos, born in Troy, Michigan, murdered during 1989-1990 seven men in Florida while working as a prostitute. In this essay, I am...

It has been proven in multiple studies that an individual is greatly affected by the traumatic childhood events that may be present in their life. These traumatic events range from a lesser extent such as a car crash but can be as great an extent...

Introduction The article I chose is “The Application of Learning Theory to Serial Murder” by Robert L. Hale. This article relates to psychological theory, mainly psychodynamic theory. Basic Idea and Major Theorists The basic idea of this article is that serial murderers become attached to...

In today’s era the Federal Bureau of Investigation is extremely effective in areas invovling serial killers and serial rapists, because of the creation of the behavioral unit and how foundamental the creation of this unit is to modern society on it’s studies on mass murders,...

Through the passage of time, history has witnessed both great and bad things. We have seen people with no conscience, with hardened hearts, who have seen killing as a hobby. These are history’ s most notorious criminals. American serial killer Ted Bundy was one of...

PURPOSE In the making of a serial killer, case studies reveal that many serial killers share a common pattern of suffering physical abuse at the hands of a parent during childhood. Therefore, it is important to examine and build on the existing research in order...

The fulfillment that goes with that the fruitful completion of any errand would be inadequate without the specify of individuals whose organization made it conceivable, whose steady direction and support crown all endeavors with victory. I would like to thank my staff and Amity University...

Ted Bundy was more than just your average serial killer, Bundy was one of the most cold-blooded, and heartless humans to ever walk this earth. Even after being caught, Bundy continued to deny his killings for over 10 years but then later confessed to the...

Serial Killers are some of the most terrifying people to exist, from their terrible acts of harassment to killings. Richard Ramirez is rated one of the worst serial killers there is, to be defined as a serial killer you have to kill more than three...

The case of Robert Pickton was a horrifying, disturbing event that left a lasting impact on all of Canada. Pickton was a notorious serial killer, convicted on six charges for the murders of up to twenty-six different women. Pickton had grown up and worked on...

A serial killer is a person normally known to murder three or more individuals for no apparent motive due to their abnormal psychological satisfaction. As learned, a serial killer is an individual who puts “special efforts to elude detection” and “may continue to kill for...

Serial killers are defined as people who kill at least three people and can keep happening for years until the killer is caught. Serial killers, Clare S.Allely says, murder their victims separately and over a period of time, with a cooling-off period between murders (Allely)....

Serial Killers are an entirely special breed of people and there is some controversy about if they can benefit from rehabilitation and be placed back into society. Their killings are violent, and sadistic, and have a general lack of empathy for their victims. These types...

While studying criminology it is important to also get an understanding of why people go into a life of crime. There are those who fall in and out of crimes such as petty crimes, burglary, and kidnapping, then there are those who fall into more...

Andrew was the youngest of four children to Mary Anne Schillaci Modesto Cunanan. He grew up very intelligent and constantly praised, by his father, and being given anything he wanted (Andrew Cunanan Biography, n.d.). His brother even stated to ABC News that “He was my...

Actions of serial killers have been documented in history for decades. Every story you hear sound more gruesome than the last. People have been trying to figure out for ages what makes someone want to kill another human being. It either comes down to how...

Why do Serial killers kill? Are they born or made? The main argument towards serial killers is if they are born or made because they become who they are or do because of experiences in early life. There is no proof if it is genetics...

Despite endless research being conducted within this area of study, researchers still struggle with determining the cause of serial killers. Thus, the main question is: are serial killers born or made? As previously stated, researchers have identified a series of biological predispositions related to these...

A serial killer is a person who has killed 3 or more people within the space of a month, with a significant period of time in between them. Serial killers kill because of desire and pleasure their sexual desires and the need to fulfill their...

Alexander Pichushkin, also known as the Chessboard Killer, was a serial killer in Russia from 1992 to 2006. Alexander Pichushkin was born in April of 1974, in Moscow, Russia. According to several articles, Pichushkin fell off of a swing in his childhood years and left...