Essays on Serial Killer

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…

The poem ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling is a beautiful poem, giving advice from a father to son on how to grow up to be a better person in life. It was written in 1895 and published in ‘Rewards and Fairies’. The poem is framed with…

Throughout history there have been many cases dealing with serial killers. Cases that may be closed but will never be forgotten. These killers kill for the fun for the thrill. They do this to also try to satisfy their own wicked pleasure. Some of them…

Charles Manson Charles Manson was born in Kentucky in 1934 as “No Name Maddox.” the unwanted child of a prostitute. He spent his youth in foster homes, a small, sickly child exposed to alcohol, prostitution and abuse. By age 18, he had stolen money and…

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…

The most distinguishing factor of a serial killer is multiple victims, generally four or more victims. A serial killer will continue killing until he is made to stop. Serial killers differ from mass murders. A mass murder may open fire in a bank and kill…

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…

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…

Jeffrey Dahmer convicted serial killer and sex offender murdered and ate seventeen males between the years of 1978 and 1991, he pleaded not guilty by vuture of insanity but got sentenced to 15 lifetimes but eventually got murdered in prison. Despiste having previously confessing Dahmer…

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…

Clementine Barnabet was a deranged maniac who did very well at making people believe she was innocent. In the early 1900s, this woman Clementine Barnabet, committed many brutal crimes on adults and children with an axe. Over the span of a couple of years Clementine…

On July 12, 1976, Joseph James DeAngelo started his double life. He lived part of his life as a monster portrayed as a hero. He was a police officer in California, but when he wasn’t in uniform he was committing terrible crimes. From 1976 to…

Serial Killer is anyone who murders three or more people with sections of “cooling off” time in between each kill. This implies that a person who kills three people at one time doesn’t receive the label as a “serial killer.” Most serial killers scrape by…

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…

Jack the Ripper is one of the rare serial killers who’s gruesome acts have stayed at the forefront of the public imagination, inspiring books, films and countless amateur investigators for over a century. Due to both the nature of the murders and the lack of…