Articles for tag: Serial Killers

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Women Serial Killers and Their Motives

All around the world people who are interested in serial killers have heard of Richard Ramirez, John Wayne Gacy, Gary Ridgway, and numerous others who have put the fear of God into their victims and those who live in the areas that they picked for their wrath. Most of the time serial killers are men, ...

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Serial Killer vs Media: A Symbiotic Relationship?

Serial Killer vs Media. Sounds like a promoters dream fight. Instead it is a proposed question: Do Serial Killers Have An Impact On The Media? This may need restructuring. Seeing it in writing brings to mind an equation rather than a question. This paper will attempt to explore where impact is really taking place in ...

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Criminologist States: Serial Killers Responsible for Nearly Ten Times More U.S. Deaths Than Records Show

A press release on Newswise.com from the University of Indiana states that criminologist Kenna Quinet has an article published recently in Homicide Studies journal. The article is titled The Missing Missing: Toward a Quantification of Serial Murder Victimization in the United States. Quinet states that current records that estimate the number of deaths in the ...

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Modern Day Serial Killers

When people think of serial killers, many people think of individuals such as Ted Bundy, who taught women not to trust or help strangers when alone, Jack the Ripper, who strangled women in London, Amelia Dyer, a British woman who murdered infants in her care as the head of an infant placement service, and John ...

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Serial Killer Profiling is Still Just a Best Guess

In society’s search for the reasons behind why individuals commit crime, there have been many theories. These theories, while still only theories, along with advancements in technology and a scientific approach to evidence collection, have led to the development of a structured approach to understanding crime in general and serial killers in particular. This approach ...

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Classifying Serial Killers

Though most of us really never think about the mind of a serial killer, it is sometimes necessary to catch them. Because serial killers are often different in their motive, categories have been assigned to group like killers. In doing this it is easier to understand them and eventually bring them to their demise. Stereotypical, ...

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Three Historical Serial Killers

While the term serial killer is a relatively new one, it would seem that serial killers have existed for a very long time. There are some historical serial killers that have been documented as well as they can be, given the age of the killings. We can also safely assume that there have been cases ...

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The Difference Between Serial, Mass and Spree Killers

Over the years I have studied many crimes that serial killers, mass murderers and spree killers have committed. I have researched all the different aspects of the people and the crimes committed. Many people who are interested in crimes do not understand that the classifications of the criminal are just as important as profiling the ...