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Old December 23rd, 2006 #1
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I knew it I knew it I knew it, but now I have proof. From a very liberal source: Wikipedia: Read it and weep you media-brainwashed fools.

The white male stereotype is very deceptive, however, since white males are less likely to be serial killers than male African Americans or male Hispanics. African Americans make up 12% of the American population but 22% of serial killers and Hispanics roughly the same. Whites make up around 75% of the population but only 55% of all serial killers, making whites proportionately less likely to be serial killers. [1]

Yet another thing that EVERYBODY KNOWS that JUST AIN'T SO.

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Old December 23rd, 2006 #2
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and heres what the Wkipedia entry really says
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killers
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The white male stereotype is not very deceptive, however, since white males are more likely to be serial killers than male African Americans or male Hispanics. African Americans make up 12% of the American population but 5% of serial killers, and Hispanics roughly the same. Whites make up around 75% of the population but only 90% of all serial killers, making whites proportionately more likely to be serial killers. [1]
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Old December 23rd, 2006 #3
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and heres what the Wkipedia entry really says
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killers
They more than make up for it,

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Old December 23rd, 2006 #4
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Not that I completely trust Wikipedia at times but Im curious how 2 people can look at the same paragraph and find the wording completely different.
Of course the link is there so anyone can freely see for themselves.
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Old December 23rd, 2006 #5
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You should trust wiki in this case, considering it has a source for that bit of info.


If whites do more murders...so what? Blacks are still more likely to be involved in violent crime in general. You should not care.
 
Old December 23rd, 2006 #6
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Leave it to a fucking kike to twist words around.

You're not fooling anybody, jewey. Just to be sure, I followed your link as well, as if it matters.

Why do you waste your time here? Honestly.
You're not going to convert anyone, and you're just not clever enough to be an effective troll. This is VNN. Did you read the wiki article on US? We don't want to compromise. We don't want you to move to Israel. WE WANT YOU DEAD, and we intend to do everything possible to make that happen. Many of us are even willing to put aside racial differences with the Arabs just because they hate you so much. Your group is so disgusting that there are thousand, perhaps millions, of people around the world who are willing to give their lives as long as they take a few kikes along for the ride.



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You claim to be formidable physically, yet you shy away from genuine offers of individual combat.
 
Old December 23rd, 2006 #7
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Niggers are just too stupid to be serial killers.

Mass Murderers and Spree Killers are more of the nigga's style.
 
Old December 23rd, 2006 #8
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Niggers are just too stupid to be serial killers.

Mass Murderers and Spree Killers are more of the nigga's style.
Nice try but mass murderers and spree killers are included in the serial killer statistics on Wikipedia that somehow got "doctored" by jewish conspirators 3 minutes after Alex posted them.
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Old December 23rd, 2006 #9
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The point is, ignoble jew, if you have two men standing in front of you -- pardon me, a man and an African -- the African is likelier to be a serial killer.
 
Old December 23rd, 2006 #10
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this is what it says, bluey:

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The white male stereotype is very deceptive, however, since white males are less likely to be serial killers than male African Americans or male Hispanics. African Americans make up 12% of the American population but 22% of serial killers, and Hispanics roughly the same. Whites make up around 75% of the population but only 55% of all serial killers, making whites proportionately less likely to be serial killers. [1]
I posted this same article on another forum and someone said the exact same thing you are saying.

I personally do need to see some more evidence, however, since everything that I have read about them and how they operate, the fact that they generally have a higher than average IQ,etc. does tend to point at the fact that they possess traits that are more common of white males, so it would possibly make sense that white males are going to be overrepresented in this category.

Blacks or hispanics also also much more emotion based and aggressive and that is why their crimes tend to be more of the type where they loose control and kill on a whim. While the serial killer selects their prey and plans out their crime. This subject is interesting and I would like to see where it is going to go.
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Old December 23rd, 2006 #11
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Not that I completely trust Wikipedia at times but Im curious how 2 people can look at the same paragraph and find the wording completely different.
Of course the link is there so anyone can freely see for themselves.

Gee, I guess it's because you edited it.

Look, I just edited it (three times). Same as you did, you lowlife conniving ass jewbitchboy. I don't know why they let you type in here, I would have kicked your ass out so fast you wouldn't even have had time to do that jew-whine you f*ckers do when you get slapped.


Look at the "t's" in word "most."








 
Old December 23rd, 2006 #12
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Leave it to a fucking kike to twist words around.

You're not fooling anybody, jewey. Just to be sure, I followed your link as well, as if it matters.

Why do you waste your time here? Honestly.
You're not going to convert anyone, and you're just not clever enough to be an effective troll. This is VNN. Did you read the wiki article on US? We don't want to compromise. We don't want you to move to Israel. WE WANT YOU DEAD, and we intend to do everything possible to make that happen. Many of us are even willing to put aside racial differences with the Arabs just because they hate you so much. Your group is so disgusting that there are thousand, perhaps millions, of people around the world who are willing to give their lives as long as they take a few kikes along for the ride.



You pretend to offer debate, only to fall back on your jew lies.
You claim to be formidable physically, yet you shy away from genuine offers of individual combat.
My offer to help you convert your life to a more admirable goal stands. Im not leaving until I am banned and I am not a troll as you are aware. A troll is only there to disrupt under false pretences. To get rid of me you must prove my arguments false, if you can do this then all will see.
Lastly, for many years of my life I lived a violent way of life. I have seen the error in this and have attempted to redeem myself somewhat. You know what I say is the truth.
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Old December 23rd, 2006 #13
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Gee, I guess it's because you edited it.

Look, I just edited it (three times). Same as you did, you lowlife conniving ass jewbitchboy. I don't know why they let you type in here, I would have kicked your ass out so fast you wouldn't even have had time to do that jew-whine you f*ckers do when you get slapped.


Look at the "t's" in word "most."








Congratulations for arriving at the conclusion that many wkipedia entries can be freely edited. I think the whole known universe including Alex has known this for some time. Of course only conniving jews would edit the entries
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I edited that mofo again. Look --- >





 
Old December 23rd, 2006 #15
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Thanks, Bluey, for providing a real-life case study in 'jewish honesty,' shall we term it!

Here's what the page said before Bluey jewed it (note that jew Cyphilis is also lying):




* 1 Defining serial murder
* 2 Psychology and development
* 3 Prevalence
* 4 Serial murder before 1900
* 5 Types of serial killers
o 5.1 Organized and disorganized types
o 5.2 Motive types
+ 5.2.1 Visionary
+ 5.2.2 Missionary
+ 5.2.3 Hedonistic
+ 5.2.4 Gain motivated
+ 5.2.5 Power and control
* 6 Serial killers in popular culture
* 7 Why aren't serial killers caught more quickly?
* 8 Bibliography
* 9 See also
* 10 External links

[edit] Defining serial murder

The term serial killer is widely believed to have been coined either by FBI agent Robert Ressler or by Dr. Robert D. Keppel in the 1970s (the credit for the term is disputed). Serial killer entered the popular vernacular in large part due to the well-publicized crimes of Ted Bundy (for whom the term was first used) and David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") in the middle years of that decade.

The term allows criminologists to distinguish those who kill several people; the following are brief definitions of these three types:

* A serial killer is someone who commits three or more murders over an extended period of time with cooling-off periods in between. In between their crimes, they appear to be quite normal, a state which Hervey Cleckley and Robert Hare call the "mask of sanity." There is often — but not always — a sexual element to the murders. All the murders must be completed/attempted in a similar fashion or the victims must have something in common, ex. occupation, race, sex, etc.
* A mass murderer, on the other hand, is an individual who commits multiple murders in a single event and in one location. The perpetrators sometimes commit suicide, therefore knowledge of their state of mind and triggers their actions is often left to speculation.
* A spree killer commits multiple murders in different locations over a period of time that may vary from a few hours to several days. Unlike serial killers, however, the spree killer does not take a long break or resume everyday life between killings.

All of the above types of crimes are usually carried out by solitary individuals. There have been examples in all three categories in which two or more perpetrators have acted together.

There are other types of multiple killings as well, although they often involve larger organizations than two or three perpetrators: genocide and terrorist attacks.

The accepted stereotype of American serial killers is that they are disproportionately likely to be white and male, but there have been exceptions. Noted female serial killers include Aileen Wuornos and Myra Hindley; many "angel of mercy" serial killers--nurses who murder their patients--are female, as well.

The white male stereotype is very deceptive, however, since white males are less likely to be serial killers than male African Americans or male Hispanics. African Americans make up 12% of the American population but 22% of serial killers and Hispanics roughly the same. Whites make up around 75% of the population but only 55% of all serial killers, making whites proportionately less likely to be serial killers. [1]

When caught and tried in a court of law in the United States, some serial killers will plead not guilty by reason of insanity. In most US jurisidictions, the legal definition of insanity is still generally based upon the classic common law "right or wrong" test delineated by an English court in the 1843 M'Naghten case. The M'Naghten rule, as it is generally known in the legal profession, hinges upon whether the defendant knows the difference between right and wrong at the time of the offense. With some serial killers, extensive premeditation, combined with lack of any obvious delusions or hallucinations that would hinder the defendant's ability to elude detection after committing multiple murders make this defense extremely difficult and almost uniformly unsuccessful in achieving a not guilty verdict. However it does allow the defense to introduce evidence about the killer's background which would normally be deemed inadmissible (for example a history of having received child abuse) in hopes that some sympathy from the jury will spare the client a death sentence.

Serial killers frequently have extreme sadistic urges. Those who lack the ability to empathize with the suffering of others are frequently called psychopathic or sociopathic, terms which have been renamed among professional psychiatrists as antisocial personality disorder. Some serial killers engage in lust and torture murder, loosely defined terms involving, respectively, mutilation for sexual pleasure and killing victims slowly over a prolonged period of time.

[edit] Psychology and development

Most serial killers have dysfunctional backgrounds. Frequently they were physically, sexually, or psychologically abused as children and there is often a correlation between their childhood abuse and their crimes.

The element of fantasy in a serial killer's development is extremely important. They often begin fantasizing about murder during or even before adolescence. Their fantasy lives are very rich and they daydream compulsively about domination, submission, and murder, usually with very specific elements to the fantasy that will eventually be apparent in their real crimes. Others enjoy reading stories of sadism featuring rape, torture and murder. In some cases, however, these traits are not present.

Some serial killers display one or more of what are known as the "MacDonald triad" of warning signs in childhood. These are:

* Fire starting, invariably just for the thrill of destroying things.
* Cruelty to animals (related to "zoosadism"). Many children may be cruel to animals, such as pulling the legs off spiders, but future serial killers often kill larger animals, like dogs and cats, and frequently for their solitary enjoyment rather than to impress peers.
* Bedwetting beyond the age when children normally grow out of such behavior.

It should be noted that recently this Triad, developed in 1963, has been called into question by other researchers. For example, many children are fascinated by fire as they are fascinated by other natural phenomenon at young ages (lightning, floods, etc.). The fact that a child can start a fire as opposed to "starting" lightning is seen to discount fire starting as an implication. See MacDonald Triad for more information.

Many experts have claimed that once serial killers start they cannot (or only rarely) stop. Recently this view has been called into question as new serial killers are caught through methods that were previously unavailable, such as DNA testing. Some argue that those who are unable to control their homicidal impulses are more easily caught and thus overrepresented in the statistics.

[edit] Prevalence

There have been conflicting reports as to the extent of serial murder. The FBI claimed in the 1980s that at any particular time there were roughly 35 active serial killers in the United States, meaning that the serial killers in question have committed their first murders but have not yet been apprehended or stopped by other means (e.g., suicide, a physical incapability to commit their crimes, or a natural death).

This figure has often been exaggerated. In his 1990 book Serial Killers: The Growing Menace, Joel Norris claimed that there were five hundred serial killers active at any one time in the United States, claiming five thousand victims a year, a quarter of the country's homicides. Some have argued that those who study or write about serial killers, be they employed in the judicial profession or journalists, have a vested interest in exaggerating the threat of such offenders.

In terms of reported cases, there appear to be far more serial killers active in developed Western nations than elsewhere. There are several reasons that may contribute to this:

* Detection techniques in developed nations are better. Multiple victims of one offender are quickly identified as being linked, so the apprehension of the offender comes more quickly than in a nation where the police are generally more underfunded and have fewer resources.
* Developed nations have a highly competitive news media, so cases are reported more quickly.
* The United States and Western Europe have avoided the large-scale, state-sanctioned censorship that news outlets in certain nations have, in which stories related to serial murder have been suppressed. An example of this is the case in Ukraine of serial murderer Andrei Chikatilo, whose murder spree continued largely unreported and poorly investigated by police in the former Soviet Union due to the idea that only supposedly corrupt capitalistic Western countries bred such killers. After the collapse of the USSR, there were a number of reports of prolific serial killers whose crimes had previously been hidden from the West behind the Iron Curtain.
* Cultural differences could account for a larger number of serial killers, not just a larger number of reported cases. Equally some cultures would fail to call certain crimes (such as multiple honour killings) serial killings.
* Self interest. Few countries, especially those wishing an international tourist trade, are keen to generate the sort of negative publicity a rash of solved or unsolved serial killer cases entails.
* Cultural Bias. Serial killers in non-Western nations, such as Yoo Young-Chul in South Korea, Yang Xinhai in China or Cedric Maake and Moses Sithole from South Africa, are rarely reported as extensively in Western media outlets.

[edit] Serial murder before 1900

See also List of serial killers before 1900.

Although the phenomenon of serial murder is generally regarded as a modern one, it can be traced back in history, albeit with a limited degree of accuracy.

In the 15th century, one of the wealthiest men in France, Gilles de Rais, is said to have abducted, raped and killed at least a hundred young boys. The Hungarian aristocrat Elizabeth Báthory was arrested in 1610 and subsequently charged with torturing and butchering as many as 600 young girls. She stated in her diary all of her kills.[citation needed] Although both De Rais and Báthory were reportedly sadistic and addicted to murder, they differ from typical modern-day serial killers in that they were both rich and powerful. Based upon the lack of established police forces and active news media during those centuries, it may very well be that there were plenty of other serial killers at that time who were either not identified or not publicized as well.

Some historical criminologists have suggested that there may have been serial murders throughout history, but specific cases were not adequately recorded. Some sources suggest that legends such as werewolves and vampires were inspired by medieval serial killers. Sabine Baring-Gould's The Book of Werewolves is a prime example of such an idea, mixing crimes which would today clearly be called serial killings with the development of a specific mythology.

Thug Behram, a gang leader of the Indian Thuggee cult of assassins, has frequently been said to be the world's most prolific serial killer. According to numerous sources, he was believed to have murdered 931 victims by strangulation by means of a ceremonial cloth (or rumal, which in Hindi means handkerchief), used by his cult between 1790 and 1830, thus holding the record for the most murders directly committed by a single person in history. In total, the Thugs as a whole were responsible for approximately 2 million deaths according to Guinness. The notoriety of the Thugs eventually led to the word thug entering the English language as a term for ruffians, miscreants, and people who behave in an aggressive manner towards others.

In his famous 1886 book Psychopathica Sexualis, Richard von Krafft-Ebing notes a case of serial murder in the 1870s, that of an Italian man named Eusebius Pieydagnelle who had a sexual obsession with blood and confessed to murdering six people. The unidentified killer Jack the Ripper slaughtered prostitutes (the exact number of victims is not known - at least four, probably six, possibly as many as eight) in London in 1888. Those crimes gained enormous press attention because London was the center of the world's greatest superpower at the time, so having such dramatic murders of financially destitute women in the midst of such wealth focused the news media's attention on the plight of the urban poor and gained coverage worldwide. Joseph Vacher was executed in France in 1898 after confessing to killing and mutilating 11 women and children, while American serial killer H. H. Holmes was hanged in Philadelphia in 1896 after confessing to 27 murders.

[edit] Types of serial killers

[edit] Organized and disorganized types

The FBI has roughly categorized serial killers into two different types: organized and disorganized.

* Organized types are usually of high intelligence and plan their crimes quite methodically, usually abducting victims, killing them in one place and disposing of them in another. They will often lure the victims with ploys appealing to their sense of sympathy. For example, Bundy would put his arm in a fake plaster cast and ask women to help him carry books to his car, where he would beat them unconscious with the cast and spirit them away. Others specifically target prostitutes, who are likely to voluntarily go with a serial killer posing as a customer. They maintain a high degree of control over the crime scene, and usually have a good knowledge of forensic science that enables them to cover their tracks, such as by burying the body or weighting it down and sinking it in a river. They follow their crimes in the media carefully and often take pride in their actions, as if it were a grand project. The organized killer is usually socially adequate and has friends and lovers, often even a spouse and children. They are the type who, when captured, are most likely to be described by acquaintances as "a really nice guy" who "wouldn't hurt a fly." Some serial killers go to lengths to make their crimes difficult to discover, such as falsifying suicide notes, setting up others to take the blame for their crimes, and faking gang warfare. The case of Harold Shipman, an English family doctor, is slightly unusual in that his social position and occupation was such that he was able to portray victims as having died of natural causes; between 1971 and 1998 he killed at least 250, and possibly well over 400, of his own mostly elderly patients – and until very near the end of his rampage it was not even suspected that any crimes had been committed.
* Disorganized types are often of low intelligence and commit their crimes impulsively. Whereas the organized killer will specifically set out to hunt a victim, the disorganized will murder someone whenever the opportunity arises, rarely bothering to dispose of the body but instead just leaving it at the same place in which they found the victim. They usually carry out "blitz" attacks, leaping out and attacking their victims without warning, and will typically perform whatever rituals they feel compelled to carry out (e.g., necrophilia, mutilation, cannibalism, etc.) once the victim is dead. They rarely bother to cover their tracks but may still evade capture for some time because of a level of cunning that compels them to keep on the move. They are often socially inadequate with few friends, and they may have a history of mental problems and be regarded by acquaintances as eccentric or even "a bit creepy." They have little insight into their crimes and may even block out the memories of the killings.

A significant number of serial killers show certain aspects of both organized and disorganized types, although usually the characteristics of one type will dominate. Some killers descend from being organized into disorganized behavior as their killings continue. They will carry out careful and methodical murders at the start, but as their compulsion grows out of control and utterly dominates their lives, they will become careless and impulsive.

[edit] Motive types

The organized and disorganized model relates to the killer's methods. With regards to motives, they can be placed into five different categories:

[edit] Visionary

Contrary to popular opinion, serial killers are rarely insane or motivated by hallucinations and/or voices in their heads. Many claim to be, usually as a way of trying to get acquitted by reason of insanity. There are, however, a few genuine cases of serial killers who were compelled by such delusions.

Herbert Mullin slaughtered 13 people after voices told him that murder was necessary to prevent California from suffering an earthquake. (Mullin went to great pains to point out that California did indeed avoid an earthquake during his murder spree.)

Ed Gein claimed that by eating the corpses of women who looked like his deceased mother, he could preserve his mother's soul inside his body. He killed two women who bore passing resemblances to his mother, eating one and being apprehended while in the process of preparing the second woman's body for consumption. He also used the flesh of exhumed female corpses to fashion a "woman suit" for himself so that he could "become" his mother, and carried on conversations with himself in a falsetto voice. After his arrest he was placed in a mental facility for the remainder of his life.

[edit] Missionary

So-called missionary killers believe that their acts are justified on the basis that they are getting rid of a certain type of person (often prostitutes or members of a certain ethnic group), and thus doing society a favour. Gary Ridgway and Aileen Wuornos are often described as missionary killers. In Wuornos' case, the victims were not prostitutes, but their patrons. Missionary killers differ from other types of serial killer in that their motive is generally non-sexual. Arguably, Jack the Ripper also fits this role.

[edit] Hedonistic

This type kills for the sheer pleasure of it, although what aspect they enjoy varies. Yang Xinhai's post capture statement is typical of such killers' attitudes: "When I killed people I had a desire [to kill more]. This inspired me to kill more. I don't care whether they deserve to live or not. It is none of my concern"[1]. Some killers may enjoy the actual "chase" of hunting down a victim more than anything, while others may be primarily motivated by the act of torturing and abusing the victim while they are alive. Yet others, like Jeffrey Dahmer, may kill the victim quickly, almost as if it were a chore, and then indulge in necrophilia or cannibalism with the body. Usually there is a strong sexual aspect to the crimes, even if it may not be immediately obvious, but some killers obtain a surge of excitement that is not necessarily sexual, such as David Berkowitz, who got a thrill out of shooting young couples in cars at random and then running away without ever physically touching the victims.

[edit] Gain motivated

Most criminals who commit multiple murders for material ends (such as mob hit men) are not classed as serial killers, because they are motivated by economic gain rather than psychopathological compulsion.Template:Holmes & Holmes 2001 There is a fine line separating such killers, however. For example, Marcel Petiot, who operated in Nazi-occupied France, could be classified as a serial killer. He posed as a member of the French Resistance and lured wealthy Jewish people to his home, claiming he could smuggle them out of the country. Instead he murdered them and stole their belongings, killing 63 people before he was finally caught. Although Petiot's primary motivation was materialistic, few would deny that a man willing to slaughter so many people simply to acquire a few dozen suitcases of clothes and jewelry was a compulsive killer and psychopath. However, it is impossible to understand the true motivation in such cases.

[edit] Power and control

This is the most common serial killer. Their main objective for killing is to gain and exert power over their victim. Such killers are sometimes abused as children, which means they feel incredibly powerless and inadequate, and often they indulge in rituals that are linked, often very specifically, to forms of abuse they suffered themselves. One killer, for example, forced young girls to perform oral sex on him, after which he would spank the girl before finally strangling her. After capture, the killer claimed that when he was a child his older sister would force him to perform oral sex on her, then she would spank him in order to terrify him into not telling their parents.[citation needed] The ritual he performed with his victims would negate the humiliation he felt from his abuse as a child, although such relief would only be temporary, and like other such killers, he would soon feel compelled to repeat his actions until eventual capture. (The vast majority of child abuse victims do not become serial killers, of course, meaning that such abuse is not regarded as the sole trigger of such crimes in these cases.) Many power/control-motivated killers sexually abuse their victims, but they differ from hedonistic killers in that rape is not motivated by lust but as simply another form of dominating the victim.

Some serial killers may seem to have characteristics of more than one type. For example, British killer Peter Sutcliffe appeared to be both a visionary and a mission-oriented killer in that he claimed voices told him to clean up the streets of prostitutes.

Alternatively, another school of thought classifies motive as being one of three types: need, greed, or power.

[edit] Serial killers in popular culture

Because of the horrific nature of their crimes, their highly varied personalities and profiles, and their ability to evade detection and kill many victims before finally being captured and imprisoned, serial killers have always fascinated people and have been featured in many novels, movies, songs, comic books, true crime works, video games, and other media.

Serial killer memorabilia and serial killer lore is a subculture revolving around the legacies of various infamous and notorious serial killers. While memorabilia is generally confined to the paintings, writings, and poems of infamous killers, a market has expanded in recent years with serial killer encyclopedias, trading cards, and even action figurines. Some of the best known articles of serial killer memorabilia include the clown paintings of John Wayne Gacy and the poetry of Jack Unterweger.

See also: List of fictional serial killers

[edit] Why aren't serial killers caught more quickly?
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It is possible that many would-be serial killers are apprehended before they kill the three or more victims required to qualify them as such in the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Similarly, it is certain that some are detained under mental health regulations and do not directly answer for their crimes. Others go on to kill many more people over years without being apprehended.

Serial killers, despite the media attention, commit only a tiny fraction of all murders in any time period[citation needed]. Murder is usually either a crime of personal relationships and short intense emotion, or an unintended consequence of other crimes. Because of this, most murders are comparatively simple to solve; in most familial deaths, the murderer makes little (effective) effort to conceal the crime and confesses easily; in other cases, the murderer is usually a local or is known to the police. These assumptions, with which any law enforcement officer naturally approaches a single murder, are barriers to catching a serial killer.

Another barrier to serial killers' early capture is their diverse backgrounds, choices of victim, and methods of killing. They almost never have any links to their victims—they pick by whim or impulse, seeking types or opportunity rather than any easily detectable link. As noted above, organized offenders can take steps to minimize the evidence they leave behind, and commit crimes away from their locale. It can take a number of murders before a serial killer is even suspected.

Even if a serial killer is known to be operating, it is difficult to catch the culprit. Potential victims can be identified only by broad type, and generic area warnings produce little more than fear and misdirected violence.

In addition, police departments are often reluctant to admit that a serial killer is at large due to the immediate public pressure to catch and indict a suspect. Law enforcement departments are known to try to "wait it out," hoping the killer will move to another jurisdiction and relieve them of responsibility for apprehending the perpetrator.[citation needed]

The commonality of habitual traits of serial killers allows the construction of a psychological profile. This allows targeted interviewing of suspects, although there are often a large number of entirely innocent individuals who have some match to the profile. Also, some serial killers are skilled at concealing their true selves behind a charming façade.

Unfortunately, profiles are built upon historical precedents of known serial killers that sometimes do not accurately model actual culprits. Such problems plagued the hunt for the D.C. sniper John Muhammad and John Lee Malvo, whose initial profile indicated a white male. A different problem plagued the hunt for Aileen Wuornos in Florida's "Highway Killer" case; police initially believed the killer to be male.

Serial killer investigations sometimes reveal an unsatisfactory side to law enforcement — inertia, incompetence, bureaucracy, mismanagement, agency "turf wars," missed opportunities, racial or gender bias, and other failures can slow down the investigation and, indirectly, allow further murders.

There is a public misconception that serial killers generally want to be discovered. In most instances this is not the case, as serial killers will often go to great lengths to prevent capture or to push police and investigators towards the wrong subjects.

[edit] Bibliography

1. ^ Serial Murderers and Their Victims- Hickey, Eric - Professor of ciminal psychology at California State University, Freso

* Douglas, John and Olshaker, Mark. Journey into Darkness. Pocket Books, 1997. ISBN 0-671-00394-1
* Douglas, John and Olshaker, Mark. Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit. Pocket Books, 1997. ISBN 0-671-01375-0
* Lane, Brian and Gregg, Wilfred. The New Encyclopedia Of Serial Killers. Headline Book Publishing, 1996. ISBN 0-7472-5361-7
* MacDonald, J. M. "The threat to kill." American Journal of Psychiatry 120 (1963): 125-130.
* Norris, Joel. Serial Killers: The Growing Menace. Arrow Books, 1990. ISBN 0-09-971750-6
* Ressler, Robert K. and Schachtman, Thomas. Whoever Fights Monsters. St. Martins Mass Market Paper, 1994. ISBN 0-312-95044-6
* Schechter, Harold and Everitt, David. The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. Pocket Books, 1996. ISBN 0-671-53791-1
* Vronsky, Peter. Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters. The Berkley Publishing Group, Penguin Group, 2004. ISBN 0-425-19640-2
* Wilson, Colin. A Plague Of Murder. Robinson Publishing, Ltd., 1995. ISBN 1-85487-249-4
* The title character in the comic book Johnny The Homicidal Maniac will kill people and use their blood to paint his walls.
* Leyton, Elliott. Hunting Humans: The Rise of the Modern Multiple Murderer (1986, reprint: 1995, 2005) McClelland and Stewart ISBN 0-7710-5025-9
* Holmes, Ronald. Holmes, Stephen. "Murder in America". Sage Publishing ISBN 0-7619-2092-7

[edit] See also

* List of serial killers by country
* Mass murderer
* Offender profiling
* Spree killer

[edit] External links

* Crime Library's Serial Killer page
* Serial Killer 'Hit List' at Mayhem.net
* The aetiology of serial murder by Ed Mitchell, University of Cambridge

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* 1 Defining serial murder
* 2 Psychology and development
* 3 Prevalence
* 4 Serial murder before 1900
* 5 Types of serial killers
o 5.1 Organized and disorganized types
o 5.2 Motive types
+ 5.2.1 Visionary
+ 5.2.2 Missionary
+ 5.2.3 Hedonistic
+ 5.2.4 Gain motivated
+ 5.2.5 Power and control
* 6 Serial killers in popular culture
* 7 Why aren't serial killers caught more quickly?
* 8 Bibliography
* 9 See also
* 10 External links

[edit] Defining serial murder

The term serial killer is widely believed to have been coined either by FBI agent Robert Ressler or by Dr. Robert D. Keppel in the 1970s (the credit for the term is disputed). Serial killer entered the popular vernacular in large part due to the well-publicized crimes of Ted Bundy (for whom the term was first used) and David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") in the middle years of that decade.

The term allows criminologists to distinguish those who kill several people; the following are brief definitions of these three types:

* A serial killer is someone who commits three or more murders over an extended period of time with cooling-off periods in between. In between their crimes, they appear to be quite normal, a state which Hervey Cleckley and Robert Hare call the "mask of sanity." There is often — but not always — a sexual element to the murders. All the murders must be completed/attempted in a similar fashion or the victims must have something in common, ex. occupation, race, sex, etc.
* A mass murderer, on the other hand, is an individual who commits multiple murders in a single event and in one location. The perpetrators sometimes commit suicide, therefore knowledge of their state of mind and triggers their actions is often left to speculation.
* A spree killer commits multiple murders in different locations over a period of time that may vary from a few hours to several days. Unlike serial killers, however, the spree killer does not take a long break or resume everyday life between killings.

All of the above types of crimes are usually carried out by solitary individuals. There have been examples in all three categories in which two or more perpetrators have acted together.

There are other types of multiple killings as well, although they often involve larger organizations than two or three perpetrators: genocide and terrorist attacks.

The accepted stereotype of American serial killers is that they are disproportionately likely to be white and male, but there have been exceptions. Noted female serial killers include Aileen Wuornos and Myra Hindley; many "angel of mercy" serial killers--nurses who murder their patients--are female, as well.

The white male stereotype is very deceptive, however, since white males are less likely to be serial killers than male African Americans or male Hispanics. African Americans make up 12% of the American population but 22% of serial killers and Hispanics roughly the same. Whites make up around 75% of the population but only 55% of all serial killers, making whites proportionately less likely to be serial killers. [1]

When caught and tried in a court of law in the United States, some serial killers will plead not guilty by reason of insanity. In most US jurisidictions, the legal definition of insanity is still generally based upon the classic common law "right or wrong" test delineated by an English court in the 1843 M'Naghten case. The M'Naghten rule, as it is generally known in the legal profession, hinges upon whether the defendant knows the difference between right and wrong at the time of the offense. With some serial killers, extensive premeditation, combined with lack of any obvious delusions or hallucinations that would hinder the defendant's ability to elude detection after committing multiple murders make this defense extremely difficult and almost uniformly unsuccessful in achieving a not guilty verdict. However it does allow the defense to introduce evidence about the killer's background which would normally be deemed inadmissible (for example a history of having received child abuse) in hopes that some sympathy from the jury will spare the client a death sentence.

Serial killers frequently have extreme sadistic urges. Those who lack the ability to empathize with the suffering of others are frequently called psychopathic or sociopathic, terms which have been renamed among professional psychiatrists as antisocial personality disorder. Some serial killers engage in lust and torture murder, loosely defined terms involving, respectively, mutilation for sexual pleasure and killing victims slowly over a prolonged period of time.

[edit] Psychology and development

Most serial killers have dysfunctional backgrounds. Frequently they were physically, sexually, or psychologically abused as children and there is often a correlation between their childhood abuse and their crimes.

The element of fantasy in a serial killer's development is extremely important. They often begin fantasizing about murder during or even before adolescence. Their fantasy lives are very rich and they daydream compulsively about domination, submission, and murder, usually with very specific elements to the fantasy that will eventually be apparent in their real crimes. Others enjoy reading stories of sadism featuring rape, torture and murder. In some cases, however, these traits are not present.

Some serial killers display one or more of what are known as the "MacDonald triad" of warning signs in childhood. These are:

* Fire starting, invariably just for the thrill of destroying things.
* Cruelty to animals (related to "zoosadism"). Many children may be cruel to animals, such as pulling the legs off spiders, but future serial killers often kill larger animals, like dogs and cats, and frequently for their solitary enjoyment rather than to impress peers.
* Bedwetting beyond the age when children normally grow out of such behavior.

It should be noted that recently this Triad, developed in 1963, has been called into question by other researchers. For example, many children are fascinated by fire as they are fascinated by other natural phenomenon at young ages (lightning, floods, etc.). The fact that a child can start a fire as opposed to "starting" lightning is seen to discount fire starting as an implication. See MacDonald Triad for more information.

Many experts have claimed that once serial killers start they cannot (or only rarely) stop. Recently this view has been called into question as new serial killers are caught through methods that were previously unavailable, such as DNA testing. Some argue that those who are unable to control their homicidal impulses are more easily caught and thus overrepresented in the statistics.

[edit] Prevalence

There have been conflicting reports as to the extent of serial murder. The FBI claimed in the 1980s that at any particular time there were roughly 35 active serial killers in the United States, meaning that the serial killers in question have committed their first murders but have not yet been apprehended or stopped by other means (e.g., suicide, a physical incapability to commit their crimes, or a natural death).

This figure has often been exaggerated. In his 1990 book Serial Killers: The Growing Menace, Joel Norris claimed that there were five hundred serial killers active at any one time in the United States, claiming five thousand victims a year, a quarter of the country's homicides. Some have argued that those who study or write about serial killers, be they employed in the judicial profession or journalists, have a vested interest in exaggerating the threat of such offenders.

In terms of reported cases, there appear to be far more serial killers active in developed Western nations than elsewhere. There are several reasons that may contribute to this:

* Detection techniques in developed nations are better. Multiple victims of one offender are quickly identified as being linked, so the apprehension of the offender comes more quickly than in a nation where the police are generally more underfunded and have fewer resources.
* Developed nations have a highly competitive news media, so cases are reported more quickly.
* The United States and Western Europe have avoided the large-scale, state-sanctioned censorship that news outlets in certain nations have, in which stories related to serial murder have been suppressed. An example of this is the case in Ukraine of serial murderer Andrei Chikatilo, whose murder spree continued largely unreported and poorly investigated by police in the former Soviet Union due to the idea that only supposedly corrupt capitalistic Western countries bred such killers. After the collapse of the USSR, there were a number of reports of prolific serial killers whose crimes had previously been hidden from the West behind the Iron Curtain.
* Cultural differences could account for a larger number of serial killers, not just a larger number of reported cases. Equally some cultures would fail to call certain crimes (such as multiple honour killings) serial killings.
* Self interest. Few countries, especially those wishing an international tourist trade, are keen to generate the sort of negative publicity a rash of solved or unsolved serial killer cases entails.
* Cultural Bias. Serial killers in non-Western nations, such as Yoo Young-Chul in South Korea, Yang Xinhai in China or Cedric Maake and Moses Sithole from South Africa, are rarely reported as extensively in Western media outlets.

[edit] Serial murder before 1900

See also List of serial killers before 1900.

Although the phenomenon of serial murder is generally regarded as a modern one, it can be traced back in history, albeit with a limited degree of accuracy.

In the 15th century, one of the wealthiest men in France, Gilles de Rais, is said to have abducted, raped and killed at least a hundred young boys. The Hungarian aristocrat Elizabeth Báthory was arrested in 1610 and subsequently charged with torturing and butchering as many as 600 young girls. She stated in her diary all of her kills.[citation needed] Although both De Rais and Báthory were reportedly sadistic and addicted to murder, they differ from typical modern-day serial killers in that they were both rich and powerful. Based upon the lack of established police forces and active news media during those centuries, it may very well be that there were plenty of other serial killers at that time who were either not identified or not publicized as well.

Some historical criminologists have suggested that there may have been serial murders throughout history, but specific cases were not adequately recorded. Some sources suggest that legends such as werewolves and vampires were inspired by medieval serial killers. Sabine Baring-Gould's The Book of Werewolves is a prime example of such an idea, mixing crimes which would today clearly be called serial killings with the development of a specific mythology.

Thug Behram, a gang leader of the Indian Thuggee cult of assassins, has frequently been said to be the world's most prolific serial killer. According to numerous sources, he was believed to have murdered 931 victims by strangulation by means of a ceremonial cloth (or rumal, which in Hindi means handkerchief), used by his cult between 1790 and 1830, thus holding the record for the most murders directly committed by a single person in history. In total, the Thugs as a whole were responsible for approximately 2 million deaths according to Guinness. The notoriety of the Thugs eventually led to the word thug entering the English language as a term for ruffians, miscreants, and people who behave in an aggressive manner towards others.

In his famous 1886 book Psychopathica Sexualis, Richard von Krafft-Ebing notes a case of serial murder in the 1870s, that of an Italian man named Eusebius Pieydagnelle who had a sexual obsession with blood and confessed to murdering six people. The unidentified killer Jack the Ripper slaughtered prostitutes (the exact number of victims is not known - at least four, probably six, possibly as many as eight) in London in 1888. Those crimes gained enormous press attention because London was the center of the world's greatest superpower at the time, so having such dramatic murders of financially destitute women in the midst of such wealth focused the news media's attention on the plight of the urban poor and gained coverage worldwide. Joseph Vacher was executed in France in 1898 after confessing to killing and mutilating 11 women and children, while American serial killer H. H. Holmes was hanged in Philadelphia in 1896 after confessing to 27 murders.

[edit] Types of serial killers

[edit] Organized and disorganized types

The FBI has roughly categorized serial killers into two different types: organized and disorganized.

* Organized types are usually of high intelligence and plan their crimes quite methodically, usually abducting victims, killing them in one place and disposing of them in another. They will often lure the victims with ploys appealing to their sense of sympathy. For example, Bundy would put his arm in a fake plaster cast and ask women to help him carry books to his car, where he would beat them unconscious with the cast and spirit them away. Others specifically target prostitutes, who are likely to voluntarily go with a serial killer posing as a customer. They maintain a high degree of control over the crime scene, and usually have a good knowledge of forensic science that enables them to cover their tracks, such as by burying the body or weighting it down and sinking it in a river. They follow their crimes in the media carefully and often take pride in their actions, as if it were a grand project. The organized killer is usually socially adequate and has friends and lovers, often even a spouse and children. They are the type who, when captured, are most likely to be described by acquaintances as "a really nice guy" who "wouldn't hurt a fly." Some serial killers go to lengths to make their crimes difficult to discover, such as falsifying suicide notes, setting up others to take the blame for their crimes, and faking gang warfare. The case of Harold Shipman, an English family doctor, is slightly unusual in that his social position and occupation was such that he was able to portray victims as having died of natural causes; between 1971 and 1998 he killed at least 250, and possibly well over 400, of his own mostly elderly patients – and until very near the end of his rampage it was not even suspected that any crimes had been committed.
* Disorganized types are often of low intelligence and commit their crimes impulsively. Whereas the organized killer will specifically set out to hunt a victim, the disorganized will murder someone whenever the opportunity arises, rarely bothering to dispose of the body but instead just leaving it at the same place in which they found the victim. They usually carry out "blitz" attacks, leaping out and attacking their victims without warning, and will typically perform whatever rituals they feel compelled to carry out (e.g., necrophilia, mutilation, cannibalism, etc.) once the victim is dead. They rarely bother to cover their tracks but may still evade capture for some time because of a level of cunning that compels them to keep on the move. They are often socially inadequate with few friends, and they may have a history of mental problems and be regarded by acquaintances as eccentric or even "a bit creepy." They have little insight into their crimes and may even block out the memories of the killings.

A significant number of serial killers show certain aspects of both organized and disorganized types, although usually the characteristics of one type will dominate. Some killers descend from being organized into disorganized behavior as their killings continue. They will carry out careful and methodical murders at the start, but as their compulsion grows out of control and utterly dominates their lives, they will become careless and impulsive.

[edit] Motive types

The organized and disorganized model relates to the killer's methods. With regards to motives, they can be placed into five different categories:

[edit] Visionary

Contrary to popular opinion, serial killers are rarely insane or motivated by hallucinations and/or voices in their heads. Many claim to be, usually as a way of trying to get acquitted by reason of insanity. There are, however, a few genuine cases of serial killers who were compelled by such delusions.

Herbert Mullin slaughtered 13 people after voices told him that murder was necessary to prevent California from suffering an earthquake. (Mullin went to great pains to point out that California did indeed avoid an earthquake during his murder spree.)

Ed Gein claimed that by eating the corpses of women who looked like his deceased mother, he could preserve his mother's soul inside his body. He killed two women who bore passing resemblances to his mother, eating one and being apprehended while in the process of preparing the second woman's body for consumption. He also used the flesh of exhumed female corpses to fashion a "woman suit" for himself so that he could "become" his mother, and carried on conversations with himself in a falsetto voice. After his arrest he was placed in a mental facility for the remainder of his life.

[edit] Missionary

So-called missionary killers believe that their acts are justified on the basis that they are getting rid of a certain type of person (often prostitutes or members of a certain ethnic group), and thus doing society a favour. Gary Ridgway and Aileen Wuornos are often described as missionary killers. In Wuornos' case, the victims were not prostitutes, but their patrons. Missionary killers differ from other types of serial killer in that their motive is generally non-sexual. Arguably, Jack the Ripper also fits this role.

[edit] Hedonistic

This type kills for the sheer pleasure of it, although what aspect they enjoy varies. Yang Xinhai's post capture statement is typical of such killers' attitudes: "When I killed people I had a desire [to kill more]. This inspired me to kill more. I don't care whether they deserve to live or not. It is none of my concern"[1]. Some killers may enjoy the actual "chase" of hunting down a victim more than anything, while others may be primarily motivated by the act of torturing and abusing the victim while they are alive. Yet others, like Jeffrey Dahmer, may kill the victim quickly, almost as if it were a chore, and then indulge in necrophilia or cannibalism with the body. Usually there is a strong sexual aspect to the crimes, even if it may not be immediately obvious, but some killers obtain a surge of excitement that is not necessarily sexual, such as David Berkowitz, who got a thrill out of shooting young couples in cars at random and then running away without ever physically touching the victims.

[edit] Gain motivated

Most criminals who commit multiple murders for material ends (such as mob hit men) are not classed as serial killers, because they are motivated by economic gain rather than psychopathological compulsion.Template:Holmes & Holmes 2001 There is a fine line separating such killers, however. For example, Marcel Petiot, who operated in Nazi-occupied France, could be classified as a serial killer. He posed as a member of the French Resistance and lured wealthy Jewish people to his home, claiming he could smuggle them out of the country. Instead he murdered them and stole their belongings, killing 63 people before he was finally caught. Although Petiot's primary motivation was materialistic, few would deny that a man willing to slaughter so many people simply to acquire a few dozen suitcases of clothes and jewelry was a compulsive killer and psychopath. However, it is impossible to understand the true motivation in such cases.

[edit] Power and control

This is the most common serial killer. Their main objective for killing is to gain and exert power over their victim. Such killers are sometimes abused as children, which means they feel incredibly powerless and inadequate, and often they indulge in rituals that are linked, often very specifically, to forms of abuse they suffered themselves. One killer, for example, forced young girls to perform oral sex on him, after which he would spank the girl before finally strangling her. After capture, the killer claimed that when he was a child his older sister would force him to perform oral sex on her, then she would spank him in order to terrify him into not telling their parents.[citation needed] The ritual he performed with his victims would negate the humiliation he felt from his abuse as a child, although such relief would only be temporary, and like other such killers, he would soon feel compelled to repeat his actions until eventual capture. (The vast majority of child abuse victims do not become serial killers, of course, meaning that such abuse is not regarded as the sole trigger of such crimes in these cases.) Many power/control-motivated killers sexually abuse their victims, but they differ from hedonistic killers in that rape is not motivated by lust but as simply another form of dominating the victim.

Some serial killers may seem to have characteristics of more than one type. For example, British killer Peter Sutcliffe appeared to be both a visionary and a mission-oriented killer in that he claimed voices told him to clean up the streets of prostitutes.

Alternatively, another school of thought classifies motive as being one of three types: need, greed, or power.

[edit] Serial killers in popular culture

Because of the horrific nature of their crimes, their highly varied personalities and profiles, and their ability to evade detection and kill many victims before finally being captured and imprisoned, serial killers have always fascinated people and have been featured in many novels, movies, songs, comic books, true crime works, video games, and other media.

Serial killer memorabilia and serial killer lore is a subculture revolving around the legacies of various infamous and notorious serial killers. While memorabilia is generally confined to the paintings, writings, and poems of infamous killers, a market has expanded in recent years with serial killer encyclopedias, trading cards, and even action figurines. Some of the best known articles of serial killer memorabilia include the clown paintings of John Wayne Gacy and the poetry of Jack Unterweger.

See also: List of fictional serial killers

[edit] Why aren't serial killers caught more quickly?
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It is possible that many would-be serial killers are apprehended before they kill the three or more victims required to qualify them as such in the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Similarly, it is certain that some are detained under mental health regulations and do not directly answer for their crimes. Others go on to kill many more people over years without being apprehended.

Serial killers, despite the media attention, commit only a tiny fraction of all murders in any time period[citation needed]. Murder is usually either a crime of personal relationships and short intense emotion, or an unintended consequence of other crimes. Because of this, most murders are comparatively simple to solve; in most familial deaths, the murderer makes little (effective) effort to conceal the crime and confesses easily; in other cases, the murderer is usually a local or is known to the police. These assumptions, with which any law enforcement officer naturally approaches a single murder, are barriers to catching a serial killer.

Another barrier to serial killers' early capture is their diverse backgrounds, choices of victim, and methods of killing. They almost never have any links to their victims—they pick by whim or impulse, seeking types or opportunity rather than any easily detectable link. As noted above, organized offenders can take steps to minimize the evidence they leave behind, and commit crimes away from their locale. It can take a number of murders before a serial killer is even suspected.

Even if a serial killer is known to be operating, it is difficult to catch the culprit. Potential victims can be identified only by broad type, and generic area warnings produce little more than fear and misdirected violence.

In addition, police departments are often reluctant to admit that a serial killer is at large due to the immediate public pressure to catch and indict a suspect. Law enforcement departments are known to try to "wait it out," hoping the killer will move to another jurisdiction and relieve them of responsibility for apprehending the perpetrator.[citation needed]

The commonality of habitual traits of serial killers allows the construction of a psychological profile. This allows targeted interviewing of suspects, although there are often a large number of entirely innocent individuals who have some match to the profile. Also, some serial killers are skilled at concealing their true selves behind a charming façade.

Unfortunately, profiles are built upon historical precedents of known serial killers that sometimes do not accurately model actual culprits. Such problems plagued the hunt for the D.C. sniper John Muhammad and John Lee Malvo, whose initial profile indicated a white male. A different problem plagued the hunt for Aileen Wuornos in Florida's "Highway Killer" case; police initially believed the killer to be male.

Serial killer investigations sometimes reveal an unsatisfactory side to law enforcement — inertia, incompetence, bureaucracy, mismanagement, agency "turf wars," missed opportunities, racial or gender bias, and other failures can slow down the investigation and, indirectly, allow further murders.

There is a public misconception that serial killers generally want to be discovered. In most instances this is not the case, as serial killers will often go to great lengths to prevent capture or to push police and investigators towards the wrong subjects.

[edit] Bibliography

1. ^ Serial Murderers and Their Victims- Hickey, Eric - Professor of ciminal psychology at California State University, Freso

* Douglas, John and Olshaker, Mark. Journey into Darkness. Pocket Books, 1997. ISBN 0-671-00394-1
* Douglas, John and Olshaker, Mark. Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit. Pocket Books, 1997. ISBN 0-671-01375-0
* Lane, Brian and Gregg, Wilfred. The New Encyclopedia Of Serial Killers. Headline Book Publishing, 1996. ISBN 0-7472-5361-7
* MacDonald, J. M. "The threat to kill." American Journal of Psychiatry 120 (1963): 125-130.
* Norris, Joel. Serial Killers: The Growing Menace. Arrow Books, 1990. ISBN 0-09-971750-6
* Ressler, Robert K. and Schachtman, Thomas. Whoever Fights Monsters. St. Martins Mass Market Paper, 1994. ISBN 0-312-95044-6
* Schechter, Harold and Everitt, David. The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. Pocket Books, 1996. ISBN 0-671-53791-1
* Vronsky, Peter. Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters. The Berkley Publishing Group, Penguin Group, 2004. ISBN 0-425-19640-2
* Wilson, Colin. A Plague Of Murder. Robinson Publishing, Ltd., 1995. ISBN 1-85487-249-4
* The title character in the comic book Johnny The Homicidal Maniac will kill people and use their blood to paint his walls.
* Leyton, Elliott. Hunting Humans: The Rise of the Modern Multiple Murderer (1986, reprint: 1995, 2005) McClelland and Stewart ISBN 0-7710-5025-9
* Holmes, Ronald. Holmes, Stephen. "Murder in America". Sage Publishing ISBN 0-7619-2092-7

[edit] See also

* List of serial killers by country
* Mass murderer
* Offender profiling
* Spree killer

[edit] External links

* Crime Library's Serial Killer page
* Serial Killer 'Hit List' at Mayhem.net
* The aetiology of serial murder by Ed Mitchell, University of Cambridge

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killer"

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[Note that virtually all these fictional serial killers are White males]

List of fictional serial killers
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The following is a list of fictional serial killers by medium:

Literature

* Barabas the Jew from the play The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe
* Patrick Bateman, from the novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
* Norman Bates, from Alfred Hitchcock's seminal (1960) horror movie Psycho, based on a novel by Robert Bloch
* Buffalo Bill from Thomas Harris' novel (and subsequent motion picture) The Silence of the Lambs
* Francis Dolarhyde from Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon
* George Harvey from Alice Sebold's 2002 novel The Lovely Bones
* Hannibal Lecter from novels by author Thomas Harris and their film adaptations.
* The Misfit from the 1953 short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor.
* Rhoda Penmark from William March's 1954 novel The Bad Seed and the stage play adapted from it by Maxwell Anderson
* Jack Overby from the novel Mr. Overby is Falling by Nathan Tyree
* The Phantom of the Opera from the novel and movies.
* Reverend Harry Powell from Davis Grubb's 1953 novel The Night of the Hunter, 1955 film adaptation, and 1991 made for TV remake
* Georges Querelle from Jean Genet's 1953 novel Querelle de Brest and 1982 movie adaptation
* Thomas Ripley from a series of crime novels by Patricia Highsmith and in several films spawned from the novels.
* Serge A. Storms from Tim Dorsey's novels
* Sweeney Todd from several 19th century novels
* Casanova from the novel by James Patterson Kiss The Girls
* The Gentleman Caller from the novel by James Patterson Kiss The Girls
* Annie Wilkes from the Stephen King novel Misery
* Dexter Morgan from the Jeff Lindsay novels as well as the Showtime TV show Dexter
* Alex Winkler from the Lawrence Santoro novella, "Rat Time in the Hall of Pain.
* Lawrence Wargrave from the Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None
* Jean-Baptiste Grenouille from the Patrick Süskind novel Perfume.
* Miguel Solera de Lara from the book and movie of the same name O Xangô de Baker Street by Jô Soares.

[edit] Comics

* Steven Binst, a serial killer, created by Daniel Way and Steve Dillon, from the world of Supreme Power. He was a pharmacist who killed over 3800 people with poisoned drugs
* Cletus Kasady (or Carnage) from the Marvel Universe
* Corinthian from Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman
* Mr. Gone from Sam Keith and William Messner-Loebs' comic book series The Maxx
* Johnny the Homicidal Maniac from a black-and-white comic book series by Jhonen Vasquez
* Joker, archenemy of the Batman who has appeared in hundreds of comic books and graphic novels over the years as well as various films and animated series
* PJ Maybe, a recurring villain from Judge Dredd
* Junior Roark, aka That Yellow Bastard, a sadistic paedophile, and the mute cannibal serial killer Kevin from Sin City by Frank Miller
* Cornelius Stirk, a cannibalistic serial killer with psychic powers in the DC Universe
* Zsasz, from titles in the DC Universe

[edit] Movies

* Roy Burns from Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
* John Doe from Se7en
* Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street series of horror films and the American television series Freddy's Nightmares
* Leatherface from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre movie
* Michael Myers from the Halloween films
* Charles Lee Ray Lakeshore Strangler (Chucky) from Child's Play films
* Drayton Sawyer from the first two of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre films
* Captain Spaulding, Otis B. Driftwood, and Baby from the movies House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects
* Mick Taylor from the film Wolf Creek
* Pamela Voorhees from the original Friday the 13th
* Jason Voorhees in all but two of Friday the 13th films
* Scorpio from Dirty Harry
* Richie Gecko from From Dusk Till Dawn
* John Ryder from The Hitcher
* Jigsaw/John Kramer from the movies Saw and its sequels Saw II and Saw III.
* Simon Cartwright from the New Zealand film The Ugly
* Garland Greene from the action blockbuster Con Air
* Kazuo Kiriyama from the Japanese cult film Battle Royale
* Lucas Harper from the action movie Mindhunters
* Patrick Bateman from the movie American Psycho
* The Gemini Killer from the movie The Exorcist III
* Miguel Solera de Lara from the book and movie of the same name O Xangô de Baker Street by Jô Soares.

[edit] Television

* Clifford Banks, "The Street Sweeper," from the second season of the television series Murder One
* Richard Hillman from the British soap opera Coronation Street
* Chris Keller from the TV Drama series Oz
* Toby Mills from the TV show Hollyoaks
* Eugene Victor Tooms from the series The X-Files
* Edward and Tubbs Tattsyrup from the series The League of Gentlemen.
* Moonface, an albino serial killer, from Incident On and Off a Mountain Road, an episode of Masters of Horror.
* Flippy from the internet and television series Happy Tree Friends
* Paul Milander from the TV Series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
* Dexter Morgan from the TV Series Dexter He is an organized and missionary type serial killer who kills in a well planned manner whose victims are criminals.
* Sylar from the TV series Heroes. He has a "hunger" to kill anyone with superpowers and steal their abilities.
* Patrick Pewterschmidt, the "Fat Guy Strangler" from the TV series Family Guy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...serial_killers
 
Old December 23rd, 2006 #19
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Alex, remember that, for entertainment's sake, a White male clearly makes a better villain.

As a rule, movie badguys tend to be intelligent, charismatic and resourceful, and none of these adjectives apply to a nigger.
Though it may have tainted the public's perception, I think this is one of the few cases where intentional subterfuge is not the reason.


Bluey, I ask you again;
Why don't you try preaching to the nationalists at the Assata Shakur forum? Surely you are aware that they are in favor of anti-semitic violence every bit as much as we are. Do you believe that blacks are unable to be racist, or commit acts of racial violence?
None of US has ever appeared on t-shirts or posters with an M1 carbine, bearing the slogan "By ANY means necessary".
 
Old December 23rd, 2006 #20
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I personally do need to see some more evidence, however, since everything that I have read about them and how they operate, the fact that they generally have a higher than average IQ,etc. does tend to point at the fact that they possess traits that are more common of white males, so it would possibly make sense that white males are going to be overrepresented in this category.
I'd look at it like this. It probably takes a little more brains to be a successful serial killer than a normal murderer. Not a lot, but a little more. So that throws a bit on the white heap. It ain't every nigger that can kill three with time in between. At the same time, nigs have a better base to work from in terms of sheer chemical proclivity for violence. Third, a percentage of nigs who meet condition two (proclivity) but lack condition one (brains) will get nig-nabbed somewhere between 1-3, thereby disqualifying them. Like a downhiller who straddles a flag, you only get one chance. Well, one chance every decade or so.

So, you weigh all these up, and you would predict, and do in fact find, that blacks commit more serial killings per capita than whites, but the differential is not as great as with straight murder.
 
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