Essays on Serial Killer

I always had the desire to inflict pain on others and to have other inflict pain on me. I always seemed to enjoy everything that hurt. The desire to inflict pain, that is all that is uppermost. – Albert Fish In our daily lives, we…

Based on a psychological perspective, it is ideal to analyze Pickton’s behavior based on Erikson’s theory. Examining the factors that dictate how he reacts under a specific set of conditions, provides insight to the results of his actions in society. As Erik Erikson mentions, human…

Kristen Gilbert, also known as the Angel of Death, is known for having the most deaths on her watch at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, or the VMAC in North Hampton, Massachusetts in 1989 (Goldberg). She worked the 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Ward…

Criminology Assignment Richard Ramirez, born Ricardo Leyva Munoz Ramirez, was a serial killer, serial rapist, burglar, and pedophile in Los Angeles, California. He terrorized the city from 1984 to 1985, when he was caught. Though he only spent two years committing murder, at least 13…

Serial killers are formed in staged of an individual’s life. Before an individual is even considering being the cause of another’s death, they tend to separate themselves from the people around them and even the world. These killers tend to sneak off to a world…

The causes of psychopathy remain a mystery. There is no solid proof as to whether it is an outcome of Mother Nature, or an act of upbringing, such as child abuse, neglect, tragic life experience, etc. Psychopathic criminals have no sense of emotional pain, guilt,…

Clifford Robert Olson got his first chance at publicity the day that he was born. It was on the first day of January in the year 1940 – New Year’s Day. Like other babies born in St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver on that special day,…

Robert William Pickton’s murder case has become the largest serial killer investigation in Canadian history. A case that quickly goes from missing persons to countless homicide, numerous women from the Downtown Eastside district of Vancouver, British Columbia have already disappeared. It wasn’t until several years…

Theodore ‘Ted’ Bundy did not only have a bright future in Politics, he was attractive, charming, intelligent and also one of the most notorious serial killers, and serial rapists in United States history. Theodore Cowell, known to world as Ted Bundy, viciously murdered and sexually…

What makes the killer? Are we all just natural born killers who repress our urges, or must we break down social and psychological barriers before we can take a life? Some simply just love the dangers of murder. It is like a little cat and…