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...
Ted Bundy, or formally known as Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer, necrophiliac, and rapist. Bundy admitted to murdering and sexually assaulting 36 women across the United States. But, the exact number of women that Bundy has killed will never be known. It...
Throughout history, profiling criminal defendants has been a controversial topic since profiling has been around. Experts on both sides of the spectrum have been commenting on the issue at hand: whether profiling works. But, learning the history of profiling gives a clearer picture of how...
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...
Homolka Karla and Paul Bernardo case gained a lot of media attention due to the nature of the crime they committed. There is a television show episode that depicts what might have been the origin of the case. In February 1995 media took on the...
Peter Kurten was born in May 26,1883.During Peter Kurten childhood was beaten up by his father everyday in front of his brothers and mother. Peter Kurten’s dad was a alcoholic, which was the reasoning for leading him to beat up Peter and his mother. Peter...
The murder case of Hae Min Lee is a very intriguing incident, as it is a tale full of many holes and facts that don’t match up. For both the observers and the investigators, this is a difficult case to consider, as there is evidence...
Per 100,000 people, the country who has the highest murder rate in Southeast Asia, Philippines, has a murder rate of 9.84 for 9,784 recorded cases according to reports from the year 2014. And if one would ever wonder, how many of these cases can actually...
“The strangeness of the story of Lester Ballard, the child of God, begins not with its subject matter but with the way the story is told.” Vereen Bell, The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy In his 1991 essay, Andrew Bartlett suggests Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God...
Luis Garavito, a man who was convicted of killing one hundred and thirty eight children and admitted to the murder of over four hundred children across Colombia, murders which caused a broken nation to unite to catch the sadistic man behind them. He was known...
In California during the 1970s and the early 1970s, the zodiac killer was active, he is a mysterious serial killer which used symbols as his thing. The zodiac killer was very well known, there was only confirmed of 5 killings, but there is suspected for...
Albert Fish was an American serial killer born on May 19, 1870. HIs real name is Hamilton Howard but he is also known as the Gray Man, Werewolf of Mysteria, Brooklyn Vampire, Ham & Eggs, Moon Maniac, and The Boogeyman. HIs parents were Randall and...
Aileen was born on February 29, 1956 in Rochester, Michigan. Her parents were Leo Dale and Diane. When Wuornos was young she experienced horrible and violent things during her childhood. Wuornos’ “…father was a psychopathic pedophile who was in jail at the time of her...
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...
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...
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...
Introducing a new factor that is not really known, biological reasoning could be the main reason behind someone becoming a serial killer. Even though it is reiterated throughout life and things like religion and punishment, why would someone still kill multiple times? This is because...