Getting Serious About Serial Killers

[LadyBlue]

I'm beginning to look into this, because something just isn't adding up for me where Dennis Rader is concerned. How was he able to go about his life as he did, and not give out any clues at all about his killings?

I understand that it's difficult to profile a serial killer, but almost all of the ones that I've read about, there is one main thing that they all seem to be, and that's not able to hold a job, or not outgoing. I realize that Dennis has held different jobs over the years, but we are talking 31 years not just a few.

One would expect that during the time a person is in college that he or she would hold numerous jobs so that issue during his college years doesn't concern me, as much as he has held the Presidency Of The Church position for many years, and he has also been a Compliance Officer for many years. How was he mentally able to do this? Did he ever stop killing or has he done more killings that we aren't yet aware of? I just think that it needs to be throughly looked into.

[LadyBlue]

An interesting idea comes forward when discussing the commonality of serial killers. Many genetic diseases are carried by a female and become active in their male offspring. For example, the most common form of color blindness, affects about 7 percent of men and less than 1 percent of women.

It is identified as a sex-linked hereditary characteristic, passed from the mother to her son. Can the same be said for serial killing? It is observed that their mother abused the majority of serial killers. Following this with the thought that serial killing is caused by genetics, could the mother be passing the genetic trait down to her son? This would account for the reason that serial killers are predominantly male.

serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro03/web1/arutigliano.html

[LadyBlue]

In recent years, geographical profiling has entered the sleuthing lexicon. Practitioners of this slick, computerized field are fine-tuning their software, and educating us in their new jargon. The more "samples" (e.g., abduction points, crime scenes, body locations) available to the geographical profiler, we are told, the more readily they can wind their way to a killer’s home base.

At a minimum, the above approaches require a killer to meet the accepted definition of a serial killer: three kills separated temporally by "cooling off periods." This requires, of course, that law enforcement agencies overcome their inclination toward linkage blindness, and recognize patterns of behavior across jurisdictions.

www.karisable.com/crserial2.htm

[LadyBlue]

[glow=red,2,300]3 Types of Serial Killers[/glow]
Thrill Seekers: See it all as a game. They enjoy media attention, pursuit by police and evading the authorities. They may send a message with their killings, and keeps a record of their killings. The enjoy outsmarting law enforcement.

Mission Oriented: Feel they are doing society a favor by getting rid of people, like prostitutes or making a statement.

Power and Control: Enjoy the thrill of watching victim's terror, suffering and screaming than from the act of killing.

[LadyBlue]

[glow=red,2,300]Souvenirs & Serial Killers[/glow]
Souvenirs -- Clothing, jewelry or other personal items taken from a victim that the killer keeps a to enjoy the memories of the crime.

A trophy commands a place of honor. It can become something of a shrine, Keppel said.

www.karisable.com/crserial1.htm