The Mind of a Serial Killer
By DeWayne Strickland
Have you ever wondered what motivates a serial killer? How safe is the area you live in? How well do you know your neighbor? Who are you shaking hands with everyday? TV has more than just one show about serial killers and we love to watch these shows! Silence of The Lambs does have some important revelations, that should not be discarded! The hunter seeking its prey, is very good at blending in and controlling just how much is revealed.
Criminal Minds, Csi, Csi Miami, Csi New York, Law and Order, and I have not named them all! Are we learning more about the mind of a serial killer? What intrigues you about the mind of a serial killer? Are we more aware of our surroundings? What really protects you from the mind of a serial killer? I ask these questions, because they deserve an answer and your reading this because your drawn into it!
These shows focus not on just some rapist, but most of the time on an intelligent killer, who slips through the cracks of society unseen. How does this person stay unseen? It is called, "Perfect Camouflage". One that can adapt to any situation and leave with a powerful presence of being liked. The Dateline Mystery tv show is frustrating to watch because cops botch up the crime seen! Who does the crime scenes as good as a csi TV show? Look at the families in court that watch a killer go free, because the evidence is lacking!
Think about a cold calculated killer and you can watch the show "Numbers!" Is it all about numbers or timing? Is it the sheer joy of making the kill, that no one can figure out, except Sherlock Holmes! Who is next? Everyday we walk out the door we don't know what will happen, but we know that a positive attitude gets us through. Am I right? When a person is home alone, the desires begin to fester and the thoughts of, "what if" manifest themselves.
Is it crazy for someone to write serial killers and get to know them? Is it insane for women to write them in prison and later on get married? Has parts of humanity come to the point of saying, "is this all there is?" One man who killed 48 people in Seattle Washington, stated that he wanted to do it! That was his motivation, while millions asked, "why?". Let's look back in time and look at Alexander The Great, Napoleon, Vladimir The Impaler. How can a civilized community be threated by someone that has lost a few screws?
Out of all the millions what makes anyone so special? Is it being loved? Wanting to be loved? Being remembered and enshrined! Some of the serial killers, actually started killing animals and then evolved into killing people. It seems that some were going through a nurturing process and turned into what many call a mass of hideous monsters.
Ed Gein wanted mother's attention and had needs that were never quite fullfilled. Buffalo Bill also got in touch with his feminine side, which lead to the torture and death of many young women in, "Silence of The Lambs". Is the serial killer trying to figure himself out by pushing some limits? Is the serial killer finding out what pleases him/her the most? Does the killer like seeing his/her name in the news papers? Is the serial killer a collector of some trophies of his/her great conquest?
How much does being in control play in this insane senario? Control does seem to be an important factor and leaving an unhappy existence may be enticing for the killer. The show, "Super Natural" is on the trail of fighting evil, but they have to do some killing on the way. Staying in control of ones emotions and focused on the task at hand, does bring some pleasure. Or it seems to be on the show, "Super Natural". We all have wants and needs, but what happens when we start to lose control?
Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Wayne Gacy and Ed Gein had something in common. They became well known and enshrined by a society that wants to know more, and TV will seek to meet that need. Every night of the week, we sit mesmerized in front of the TV and wait for that next clue. As Robert Stack used to say on Unsolved Mysteries, "Will you be the next missing piece, in solving this puzzle?"
If you have read books such as "Silent Prey", you may have heard that blood smells like copper. Horror writers need that descriptive detail to pull you into the moment! Is Stephen King ready for his own nightmare? The thrill of trying to understand that point of which we are not to enter. That dark place we are not to go, because if we do, there is no going back! American TV shows delve into this dark unseen world, and the ratings rise through the roof! Where will this lead?
DeWayne H. Strickland has been a Film Freak since the time he could walk. He is a crazy movie review critic in long term therapy. Learn How to Seduce Women, with Almost "Hypnotic Control" and "Accuracy" at: www.moviedownloadmatrix.com
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Female Serial Killers...
By Christain Cullen
One of the rarest creatures in the criminal world is the female serial killer. Male serial killers are, unfortunately a common events.
The hunt at the moment in the United States for more than 45 suspected victims of the latest serial killer, Robert Charles Browne, is a case in point.
By comparison, female serial killers and what motivates them remain a mystery. Now a new psychological study of a female serial killer sheds new light on the issue.
The study, just published in the international journal Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health by a team of British and Swiss psychiatrists, is on a 33-year-old European woman identified only as -PK". She killed two random victims and came close to killing a third.
Unlike most female serial killers, such as -black widows" who kill husbands or partners for their money, PK did not know her victims. They were all other women and chosen at random.
She first killed in 1991, after stalking women in a town near where she lived. After threatening two women with a stiletto knife, she followed a third woman returning to her car and stabbed her to death.
In 1992 she was arrested for setting fire to a shopping centre and spent four years in and out of detention, receiving psychiatric treatment for her arson (the first killing had remained unsolved).
After her release she killed again in 1997. Her victim was a 61-year-old woman in a park. PK stabbed her about 30 times and hit her with a large rock.
In 1998 she went to a bookshop and slashed the throat of the elderly store owner. Against expectations the victim lived.
PK was not a suspect in any of the attacks. After the third attack PK admitted to her therapist that she wanted to commit arson again and was committed to a mental hospital. It was there, when she began talking about stalking and killing women, that she became a suspect. She eventually confessed to all three attacks.
PK had a relatively normal upbringing. Unlike many serial killers, she did not kill animals as a child, but did admit to torturing insects. She was not abused by a parents, although said she hated them for being weak and abusing drugs. At school she was bullied.
She was a loner, enjoying lone bicycle rides, and at one point wanted to be a police officer. She had a relationship with a police officer 20 years her senior, but later developed a hatred of men in uniforms.
At one point she had a relationship with a man who was fascinated by Nazis and the Taliban. The man introduced her to the use of weapons and the martial art of Aikido. She had no history of alcohol or illicit drug misuse.
-In relation to the killings, she said she saw women as easy victims, and felt 'excited', 'like a savage in face of his hunting prey' when she saw them," the study says. -Concerning the attempted murder, she expressed surprise and disappointment that the victim had survived, since she, PK, was 'a perfectionist'."
Forensic psychiatrists diagnosed PK as suffering from a personality disorder, rather than a mental illness. -Due to her dangerousness and limited treatability, unlimited detention in prison for the protection of others was recommended."
The study likened PK to US female serial killer Aileen Wuornos, whose story was told in the movie Monster. Wuornos killed seven men by shooting while working as a prostitute. The study said both Wuornos and PK fitted the category of the 'hedonistic' or 'power seeker' type of female serial killer, although Wuornos had been abused as a child and repeatedly raped.
In the US authorities are trying to piece together the activities of the latest addition to that countries long list of serial killers, Robert Charles Browne. Browne has admitted to 49 murders, although there's fears his tally could reach more than 70. Photographs found in Browne's possession have been released by the El Paso County Sheriff's office in an attempt to identify potential victims. The sheriff has also released a detailed summary of the case you can find here.
While his victims were all young females, Browne differed from most serial killers by using random methods to kill " strangulation, shooting, stabbing and in one case choking with a pair of shoe laces -and dispose of the bodies. It's likely some of the theories about serial killers and their repeating patterns will have to be re-written as a result.
Which reminds me of something a prominent Australian forensic psychiatrist once told me about the way a serial killer's crimes are studied to produce a -profile" to help catch the suspect. Such profiling techniques, pioneered by the FBI, are based on studies of serial killers in jails.
The problem with that technique is that authorities are learning to profile unsuccessful serial killers, who make mistakes and get caught. It tells you nothing about the unknown number of successful serial killers who don't make mistakes and don't get caught. Food for thought.
If you're interested in serial killers and profiling, it's worth checking out the website of retired FBI profiler John Douglas, http://www.johndouglasmindhunter.com/home.php, who worked on a number of high profile cases.
Christain Cullen is a successful Webmaster and publisher of The Gotcha Network.
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