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Ultimate Evil

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written by Maury Terry to prove that the Son of Sam’s killings were done by more than 1 person and it was apart of a satanic cult

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Aileen Wuornos

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-differs from a typical female serial killer as she used a gun
-engaged in street prostitution along highways in Florida
-killed and robbed 7 of her male clients that had either raped or attempted to rape her (said it was self-defense)

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What are the typical victims of serial killers?

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live high-risk lifestyles (prostitutes, hitchhikers, etc.), are throw away people, normally women, children, and the elderly as they are more vulnerable

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global perspective of serial killing

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it is timeless and not unique to 1 country

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What are the tools used by law enforcement for serial murder?

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CIA, CODIS, AFIS, geographic profiling, BAU, BSU, NCAVC, FBI, ballistics, VICAP

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linkage blindness

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lack of communication between police departments that to lead to no serial killers being caught

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Who did the FBI get their CIA technique from?

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James Brussel

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What is the UK version the tool’s American law enforcement used for serial murder?

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Home Office Large Major Enquiry System/HOLMES

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What is the PCL-R?

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psychopathy checklist - revised used as an assessment tool to determine the presence and extent of psychopath personality traits

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What is the DSM-V

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diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders -5th edition serving as a principle authority for psychiatric diagnoses

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Psychopathia Sexualis

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the first novel on sexual pathologies/paraphilia written by Richard von Krafft-Ebing

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Mask of Sanity

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novel including interviews of clinical patients in a locked institution written by Hervey Cleckley

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What are some myths about serial killers?

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all white and males, highly intelligent, high mobility, all are psychotic

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mass murder

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individual motivation to kill several victims within a few moments or hours in the workplace or in a private residence

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bifurcated mass murder

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starting killings at 1 location and the moving to another to continue slayings (public-to-public or private-to-public)

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Charles Whitman

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-“Texas Tower Sniper”
-mass murderer
-used knives to kill his mother and wife in their homes
-went to UT Austin with multiple firearms and began shooting at people/fatally shoot 14 people
-shot dead by police

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Amy Bishop

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-biology professor at University of Alabama in Huntsville
-shot 3 of her colleagues in a meeting after being denied tenture

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What are different typologies of serial murder?

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organized vs. disorganized, lust killers, visionary type, mission-oriented, hedonistic, power/control

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serial murder

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individual motives to kill 2+ victims with a cooling off period between each murder

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spree killing

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2+ murders in a short period of time, often in multiple locations

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Gary Ridgeway

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-“Green River Killer”
-convicted of 48 murders including sex workers and women in vulnerable circumstances (runaways)
-strangled his victims by hand and dumped their bodies into forested, overgrown areas
-would return to the bodies to have sex with them

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Thomas Bond

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-first alienist
-called into the case of Jack the Ripper

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Who generated the phrase “wound culture” and what does it mean?

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-Mark Seltzer
-murder and death are spellbinding to the general public

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Who generated the phrase “vengeance culture” and what does it mean?

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-Elliott Leyton
-glorifies violence

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2006 San Antonio Symposium

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-changed the definition of serial murder to 2+ victims
-pushback from academic scholars because there was no research to support their evidence
-GAVE THEM LEGITIMACY TO ACADEMIA

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What kind of research does Eric Hickey do?

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Quantitative research

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How do we define evil?

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Choice (Erich Fromm)

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Who talked about people of the lie? Why are they called people of the lie?

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M. Scott Peck
- they deceive themselves and others. Don’t know who they even are.

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Sawney Bean

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  • laid careful ambushes at night to rob and murder
  • brought bodies back to the cave where the corpses would be dismembered and eaten by him and his family
  • never attacked a group that was more than 6
  • during the time of King James I.
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Who are the cannibals that we have looked at?

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  • Ed Gein
  • Andrei Chikatilo
  • Jeffrey Dahmer
  • Issei Sagawa
  • Albert Fish
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Cannibalism- why is this a draw for some killers?

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  • Historically it occurs in starving countries or in tribal scenarios/tribes (example: Michael Rockefeller, who was eaten in New Guinea by the Asmat Tribe).
  • Another example is Armie Hammer who is a modern day American actor who has made it clear that he will eat you if he likes you.
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Gilles De Rais

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Protege of Joan of Arc and leader of the French army that was a serial murderer killing approximately 300 village children by convincing their parents that he was going to turn their children into noblemen.

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Elizabeth Báthory

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  • A Hungarian noblewoman and alleged serial killer from the family of Báthory, who owned land in the Kingdom of Hungary.
  • Báthory and four of her servants were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls and women between 1590 and 1610. Bathed in victims blood to be younger.
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What is Einsatzgruppen?

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paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass killings, primarily by shooting, during World War II.

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Josef Mengele

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  • A German S.S. Officer and Physician who conducted beyond inhumane medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz.
  • Had an obsession with Twins
  • Killed hundreds of children to dissect them and had almost 300 children burned alive.
  • Dehumanize the enemy
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What is the book “The Reproduction of Evil” by Sue Grand about?

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Intergenerational Trauma: the psychological and physiological effects that the trauma experienced by people has on subsequent generations in that group.
(ex. A jewish grandfather seeing his granddaughter in a stripped dress)

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When good embraces evil

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What does Cesare Lombroso say about Psychopathology?

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man was innately evil and that that determination could be made by looking at the body features

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Ed Gein

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“Butcher of Plainfield”;
-from Plainfield, Wisconsin
-murdered women and used their skin to make a suit
-began after the death of his mother whom he had an obsession with

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What is the M’Naghten Rule?

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A test for criminal insanity applied to determine whether a person accused of a crime was sane at the time of its commission and, therefore, criminally responsible for the wrongdoing.

  • cannot be found guilty if they did not know the nature or consequences of their crime; no rational thinking.
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What are the Four Types of Personality Types in regards to Serial Murder?

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1) Visionary
2) Mission Oriented
3) Hedonistic
4) Power/Control Oriented

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Visionary Type

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Such murderers kill in response to the commands of voices or visions usually emanating from the forces of good or evil. Often believed to be suffering from some form of psychosis.

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Mission-Oriented Type

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Believe it is their mission in life to rid the community or society of certain groups of people ( ex. elderly, “throw-aways”, children, or particular racial/ethnic groups)

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Hedonistic Type

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Usually stereotyped as “thrill seekers” who derive satisfaction from the murders and/or those who kill for “pleasures of life”
- lust murderers included in this category.

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Power/Control Oriented Type

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The primary source of pleasure is not sexual, but the killers ability to control and exert power over his helpless victim. Enjoy watching victim cry, beg for mercy, etc.

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What is the DSM-5 Revised?

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  • AKA the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Revised.
  • Diagnoses Different Disorders (the personality constructs)
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What is the importance of the “Mask of Sanity” written by Hervey Cleckley?

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Precursor in terms of psychopathology to Robert Hare’s “Without Conscious”.

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What is Race?

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It does not exist. It is a social construct.

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Serial Murder as a Social Construct?

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Murder has always existed. We have constructed the concept of serial murder.

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Are serial killers attracted to particular locales?

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Yes (the hunting ground where you are going to get the most bang for your buck)

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What is the Social Class Theory by Elliott Leighton?

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Vengeance by the working class.(keeping people in their place ex.women in fear)

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What is Howard Becker’s Labeling Theory?

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being labeled as a deviant by society will cause you to react negatively to this label and affirms this label.

” If this is what they say I am then I guess ill just be that”

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Example of Juvenile Mass Murders?

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The Columbine Shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

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Example of a Juvenile Serial Killer?

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Jesse Pomeroy

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Was Dahmer a juvenile serial killer?

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The argument could be made that he was; he had his first kill at 17.

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Observations of a male serial killer? Was he confident?

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No; he lacked any sort of self-worth or self-confidence.

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Do Serial Killers want to be caught? What would be the upside of getting caught?

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Yes. Upside is it fuels their narcissism and provides them with popularity and attention.

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Differences between Psychopath and Sociopath?

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Psychopath- You are born that way.
Sociopath- Created by your enviornment.

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Operation Caireem

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An operation to catch a large number of pedophiles who had child pornography.

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Why is child pornography illegal?

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It is illegal because if you have that stuff in your possession it is like a trigger; it can inspire you to do something illegal.

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Sex offender vs. Sexual Predator

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A Sexual Predator is ongoing offenses and a Sexual Offender only offends once.

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What do Robert Louis Stephensen and Sawney Bean have in common?

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They are both Scottish

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Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll, whose the evil one?

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Jekyll transforms into Edward Hyde, the physical and mental manifestation of his evil personality. This process happens more regularly until Jekyll becomes unable to control when the transformations occur.

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Charles Albright

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  • the eyeball killer
  • adopted from an orphanage; had criminal history including petty theft and aggravated assault as a teenager; as an adult he was caught stealing and sexually molesting his daughter
  • removed the eyes of his victims after beating them and shooting them in their heads; suspected of killing an additional 2 women but was never charged
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What is the FBI’s foundation work regarding serial killers?

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“Whoever Fights Monsters” by Robert Ressler

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What are the 3 components of the McDonald’s Triad?

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1.) enuresis/chronic bed-wetting
2.) fire-starting/arson
3.) torturing animals

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autoerotic death

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accidental death that occurs during sexual self-stimulation (EX: asphyxiation)

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What is coprophilia?

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intense interest and pleasure in feces and defecation

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What is necrophilia?

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sexual intercourse with or attractions to corpses; it is planned

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What is pseudo-necrophilia?

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attraction to a corpse; opportunistic

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What is a pedophile?

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sexual attraction to prepubescent children under the age of 12

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Who is Mary K. Letourneau?

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was a teacher at the time of having a sexual relationship with her 12-year-old student Vili Fualaau

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What does NAMBLA stand for?

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North American Man Boy Love Association

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What is rape?

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sexual assault in which a person is forced to engage in sexual relations so the offender has power and control

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What are feminist views on sexual assaults?

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assaults are about social control and fearing of men

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Contrast victim precipitation vs. victim blaming

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precipitation is behaviors prior to an assault that cause it (EX: going on a run at 4AM) vs. blaming is saying that the victim asked for it because they were dressing a specific way

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What is the UCR?

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-uniform crime report that has no universality with how crimes are reported
-categorized but don’t have different categories of ethnicities (black or white) and multiple crimes at once are difficult to categorize

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What is sadism?

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sexual gratification from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others

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Who are examples of sadistic serial killers?

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Jeffrey Dahmer and Dennis Rader

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What is masochism?

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sexual gratification from one’s own pain or humiliation

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Who are examples of masochistic serial killers?

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Albert Fish

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Who are examples of sadomasochistic serial killers?

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Albert Fish and Andrei Chikatilo

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What are lust killers?

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offender has a sexual desire to kill another person

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What was Ted Bundy’s methology to murder?

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strangulation or beating them to death with a crowbar

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What is a “peeping tom”?

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also known as voyeurism; sexual interest in spying on people who are engaged in intimate behaviors

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Was Ted Bundy a “peeping tom”?

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yes; he would peep into women’s windows and watch them.

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What was Ted Bundy’s part time job?

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He worked for a suicide hotline.

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What’s the book about ted bundy called?

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The stranger beside me written by Ann Rule

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Was Jerry Brudos a Psychopath or a Sociopath?

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We don’t know enough about his early childhood life to make a decision.

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what are the four personality constructs of Serial Killing

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Psychosis- Break with Reality
ASPD- Antisocial Personality Disorder; Umbrella term
Sociopath- Created by your Environment
Psychopathic- Born that way

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What is a Serial Killer’s Signature?

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  • A specific thing that a serial killer does that is specific to them/ a calling card.
  • Charles albright taking out people’s eyeballs is a signature.
  • Repeated behavior is what makes it a signature.
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Why was Gary Heidnik and Harrison Graham significant?

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caught within 6 months of each other and Heidnik got way more publicity because he was white even though he had less kills because Harrison was not believed to be smart enough to do it even though he had more kills.

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What is the moniker for Healthcare serial killers?

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Angels of Death

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What is the Yorker study?

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examined 90 cases of serial murder to identify common facts in serial murder of patients by healthcare providers (EX: cluster of cardiopulmonary arrests)

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What is the Fields study?

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noted the value of qualitative examination in studying social phenomena of nurses who kill; provides a foundation to enhance the understanding of healthcare providers who murder patients

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What is the title of the Yorker and Fields study?

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Serial Murder by Healthcare Professionals

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Harold Shipman

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  • Did not fit typical serial killer profiles.
  • Killed regularly using the pain killer diamorphine (heroin).
  • Victims were female patients between 49 & 81; most were 65.
  • Only convicted on 15 counts but is believed to have killed between 200-300.
  • Enjoyed the control and being able to play god.
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What might have been the single most impactful event in Shipman’s life that may have led to his serial murders?

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watching his mother die and be injected with morphine

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Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital

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Nazi hospital responsible for the euthanization of over 3,500 people.

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Differences Male and female angels of death? Research done on this?

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No, but there has to be some sort of delineation between the two but we just don’t know it yet.

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Routine Activities Theory and how does it play a part of serial killing?

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1) Lack of capable guardianship
2) motivated offender
3) suitable target.

Basis for all crime. Ex.) in Britain serial killing increased because the men left for war in WW2 leaving the women and children with no capable guardianship.

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What do books, films, magazine articles, etc. about serial killers represent?

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social artifacts/ they teach us about the culture. Represent a commodification of serial murder.

103
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What is Murderabilia and Thanatourism

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Murderabilia- collectibles related to murders, homicides, the perpetrators or other violent crimes

Thanatourism- tourism involving travel to places historically associated with death and tragedy.

104
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What made Henry Louis Wallace unique as a serial killer?

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Socially and geographically close with his victims

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Do most serial killers stay close to their homes when they’re killing?

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Yes; kill where they are comfortable (town over, etc.)

106
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Where did Albert Desalvo kill?

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Boston
AKA the Boston Strangler

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What was Desalvo’s lesser known moniker?

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green man; because he used to pretend he was a maintenance person by wearing the green pants.

108
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Dennis rader- BTK

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killer in Wichita who was also a youth group leader. Evaded police for over 30 years but then sent a message taunting police and was captured.

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Robert Hanssen (FBI)

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one of the Soviet Union’s and Russia’s most valuable double agents and the most damaging spy ever to penetrate the FBI.

110
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When do the seeds get planted and what kind get planted that turn people into a serial killer?

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Prior to puberty// sexual repression or abuse (sexually related)

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What happened in Chowchilla, California (1976)?

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26 school children were hijacked and kidnapped and then buried alive in a trailer underground. But they survived. Three-man team who created this plan for over a year. “We needed multiple victims for multiple millions, and they chose children because they are precious and the state would be willing to pay money for them”.

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Does trauma affect someone’s body type?

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ACE Scores; effects on your neural pathways and heart and organs. Affects your genetic code; it actually changes you physically.

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What is some trauma the children of Chowchilla may face?

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  • PTSD
  • Claustrophobia
  • Anxiety
  • Nightmares
  • Depression
  • Drug use
  • Being afraid of the dark and going to sleep.
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BAU vs. BSU?

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BAU: the working unit of criminal profiling

BSU: the teaching unit of criminal profiling

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Serial Killers as a monstrosity

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The image of the Serial Killers involved several critical elements:
1) Compulsive: Unable to stop killing or stop commiting crimes.
2) Obsession and Repetition: Unable to avoid repetition; serial killers repeat their acts, perhaps not exactly, but in essence.
3) Rootless: Lack the restraints that save “normal” individuals from succumbing to compulsive repetition.
4) Irrational: Cannot prevent their actions, and lack normal standards and restraints. NO KNOWN MOTIVE
5) Lustful: Purely individual, pathological, and above all, sexual motives
6) Violent: This dehumanization, this reversion to a subhuman or bestial state is confirmed by the extremely bloody nature of their crimes.

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Andrew Cunanan

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Murdered five people over three months from April 27 to July 15, 1997. His victims included Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace and Chicago real estate developer Lee Miglin. Cunanan died by suicide on July 23, 1997, eight days after murdering Versace.

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Stanley Cohen’s Moral Panic

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Introduced the phrase moral panic after the Mods and Rockers were two conflicting British Youth Subcultures in the late 1950s to 1960s.

Moral panics are usually bullshit; made up for clout to push an agenda

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Most famous FBI Profiler?

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John Douglas

119
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Crime and Celebrity?

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Serial Killers desire to become celebrities because, celebrity=impact on public consciousness which gains them fame and notoriety through things like thanatourism and murderabilia.

120
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Samuel Little

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Confessed to 93 murders; undetected for half a century. Killed in 19 states. Ranger Holland was the ranger who got him to confess Samuel Little. “Defines himself as a killer not a rapist”.

Remembered what all of his victims looked like and made drawings of them and where they were located, how he killed them, etc.

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Counterfactual Thinking

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create possible alternatives to life events that have already occurred; something that is contrary to what actually happened.

ex.) I killed that little girl because she was bullying me

122
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What do lies tell us?

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They tell us what is important to the individual

123
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Criminal Profiling and the validity of it?

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Profiling is only correct 13% of the time and is really not reliable or accurate at all.

124
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Incels

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Involuntary Celibates; Angry White virgin men who blame women for not having sex with them because they are entitled to sex with women because they are male.

125
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Jeffrey Dahmer

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“Milwaukee Cannibal”
-from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
-murdered 17 young gay men for sexual pleasure
-necrophilia and cannibalism
-behavioral antecedents: mother and brother left him with his father following their divorce, drank heavily in high school
-many publications based off of him

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Jesse Pomoroy

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-youngest serial killer ever reported
-father would strip and beat him with a horse whip
-attacked 8 children by either torturing them, biting chunks of flesh, stabbing with needles, attempting to amputate genitalia; sentenced to be detained at a reformation house until 18 but was released at 13
-murdered 2 other children following his release; said he did so because “he couldn’t help himself”; originally sentenced to death but was commuted to life in prison in solitary confinement then commuted to imprisonment at hard labor for life

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Ed Kemper

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“Co-Ed Killer”
-from Santa Cruz, California
-was 6’9” and 280 that indicted on 8 counts of first degree murder
-killed 6 hitchhiking women and then murdered his mother and her friend
-necorphilia
-behavioral antecedents: locked away at night because his mother believed he would sexually assault his siblings
-inspired “Buffalo Bill” in “The Silence of the Lambs”, the novel “Intensity”, movie “American Psycho”

128
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What is Geographic Profiling and who created it?

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Kim Rossmo is the creator and it analyzes the locations of a connected series of crimes to determine the most probable area of offender resident (RCMP)

129
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What is the significance of Colin Pitchfork and Sir Alec Jeffreys?

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Pitchfork was the first person to be convicted of murder using the DNA fingerprinting techniques developed by Sir Alec Jeffreys

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What is ACE?

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The adverse childhood experiences study was done by Dr. Vince Felitti and Dr. Bob Anda at the CDC asked criminals about history of
- Physical, emotional, or sexual abuse
- Physical or emotional neglect
- Parental mental illness
- Substance dependence
- Incarceration
- Parental separation or divorce
- Domestic Violence

The higher your ACE score the worse your health outcomes.

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Jerry Brudos

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AKA “ The Lust Killer” or “Shoe Fetish Slayer”

Brudos bludgeoned and strangled four young women. The only initial evidence was witness sightings of a large man dressed in women’s clothing. Brudos kept trophies from his victims, such as amputated breasts and a foot. After committing a murder, he would dress up in high heels and masturbate.

132
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Locard’s Principle of Exchange?

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the perpetrator of a crime will bring something to the crime scene and will leave with something from it; (fibers, hair, etc.)

133
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Albert Fish

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put needles in his privates before being sent to the electric chair. Killed 300 black children in the Washington D.C. area and final kills one white child and is arrested and sentenced to death.

134
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Kendall Francois

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AKA Stinky
a serial killer from Poughkeepsie, New York, convicted of killing eight women, from 1996 to 1998. He was a janitor at one of the local schools.

135
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Significance of Highways?

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Allows perpetrators access to numerous locales with ease and also allowed them to get away from the scene faster.

136
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Carol Ann Fugate and Charles Starkweather

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  • Spree Killers
  • modeled himself after James Dean and was referenced to as a “natural born killer”
  • together they killed 11 people in two months. Their last victims were high class which is highly unusual for serial murder.
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Ray Dandridge and Ricky Gray

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  • The 2006 Richmond spree murders took place during a seven-day period in January 2006 in and around Richmond, Virginia, United States; seven people—four members of the Harvey family and three members of the Baskerville–Tucker family—were killed. (all brutal murders)
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Alton Coleman and Debra Brown

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Coleman was raised in a bad environment marked by rejection, drug, prostitution, and sexual abuse. He was reportedly involved in group sex and bestiality with both his mother and grandmother, the latter of whom also made him kill and dismember animals as part of voodoo practices. Brown came from a stable home.

M.O.- Rape, Strangulation, Bludgeoning, Shooting, Stabbing.

of Victims:
7 killed
3 attempted
9 assaulted
1 raped
1-2 killed by Coleman only
8-15 raped by Coleman only

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Robert Hansen

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AKA “The Butcher Baker” and was an American serial killer. Abducted and killed at least 17 women in and around Anchorage, Alaska; he hunted many of them down in the wilderness with a Ruger Mini-14 and a knife.

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Ottis Toole and Henry Lee Lucas

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  • They were both raised by abusive mothers, who forced them to wear dresses. Both men suffered sexual trauma before turning 10. By the time they first met, they were already murderers.
  • Lucas and Toole traveled through 26 states in the ’70s, killing as many people as they could find. They targeted hitchhikers, prostitutes and migrant workers. They would pick them up and lure them to a quiet area to kill them.
  • confessed to over 600 murders although this could be false.
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Andrei Chikatilo AKA the Butcher of Rostov

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  • Soviet serial killer who murdered at least 50 people between 1978 and 1990.
  • Soviet police to issue warnings to the public during their investigation were hampered by the country’s official ideology, which asserted that serial murder was impossible in a communist society.
  • Chikatilo began his killings in 1978, preying on young victims whom he met at rail stations and bus depots around Rostov-na-Donu and other cities to which he traveled in his various jobs. Because all the victims displayed characteristic mutilations, the police soon became aware that a serial killer was active in the region.
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Issei Sagawa

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  • Known as the paris cannibal and would be considered a lust killer
  • Was a smaller man (4ft 9) and could have led to him craving control
  • Partake in beastiality with his dog and experienced cannibalistic desire for women starting in 1st grade.
  • Victims: middle aged women, tall beautiful western women.
    Killed them with a gun and raped and ate the corpse of his only known victim, Renne Hartevelt.
  • Told police he didnt wanna kill her just eat her.
  • Deemed mentally insane; charges were dropped and so authorities were forced to let him go.
143
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who was the Hillside Stangler?

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Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr.

Between October 1977 and February 1978, ten young women between the ages of twelve and twenty-eight were raped, tortured, and killed in the hills of Los Angeles, California

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Codependency of Teen killers

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Codependency is a learned behavior that usually stems from past behavioral patterns and emotional difficulties. Often a relationship of codependency includes emotional or physical abuse.

145
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Who was the Son of Sam?

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David Berkowitz
AKA the .44 Caliber Killer.
An American serial killer who pled guilty to eight shootings that began in New York City on July 29, 1976. Stated that the neighbors dog told him to do it.

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