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2012-07-17 [MON] 05:43 PM
OVER the weekend, me and Dave decided to finally
hunker down and start doing some serious research
to help us answer this question. We think there is an
answer; and to help us accomplish this, the first book
we read and took notes from was:
The A To Z Encyclopedia Of Serial Killers
written by Harold Schechter and David Everitt
(NOTES) 2017-07-23 [MON] 06:19 PM
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WDSKK: General Information
International Association of Forensic Sciences, 1984
Robert Ressler, FBI Special Agent John Douglas and several other
colleagues listed in a paper the following "general characteristics"
of serial sex murderers:
01. The great majority are single white males.
02. They tend to be intelligent, with IQs in the "bright normal" range.
03. In spite of their high IQs, they do poorly in school, have a hard
time holding down jobs, and often work as unskilled laborers.
04. They tend to come from markedly unstable families. Typically, they
are abandoned as children by their fathers and raised by
domineering mothers.
05. Their families often have criminal, psychiatric, and alcoholic
histories.
06. They hate their fathers. They hate their mothers.
07. They are commonly abused as children - psychologically, physically,
and sexually. Sometimes the abuser is a stranger. Sometimes it is
a friend. Often it is a family member.
08. Many of them end up spending time in institutions as children and
have records of early psychiatric problems.
09. They have a high rate of suicide attempts.
10. They are intensely interested from and early age in voyeurism,
fetishism, and sadomasochistic pornography.
FBI's official definition of (a) serial murderer (homicide):
" ...three or more separate events with an emotional cooling-off
period between homicides, each murder taking place at a different
location."
National Institute of Justice's definition:
"A series of two or more murders, committed as separate events, usually
but not always committed by one offender acting alone. The crimes
may occur over a period of time ranging from hours to years. Quite
often the motive is psychological, and the offender's behavior and
the physical evidence observed at the crime scenes will reflect
sadistic, sexual overtones."
History of the phrase "serial killer"
(According to The A To Z Encyclopedia Of Serial Killers, p. 74-75):
1961, "serial murderer," first used by Siegfried Kracauer to "describe
the psychopathic child killer played by Peter Lorre in Fritz
Lang's classic thriller, "M".
1966, "serial murderer," next used by British crime writer, "John
Brophy used the same phrase repeatedly in his 1966 book, 'The
Meaning of Murder'".
1992, "serial killer," first used by former FBI Special Agent Robert K.
Ressler ("one of the pioneers of the FBI's Behavioral Science
Unit"). "According to Ressler's account (published in his 1992
book, 'Whoever Fights Monsters'), he was lecturing at the
British Police Academy when one of the participants referred
to 'crimes in series'. Impressed with the phrase, Ressler
began using a variation - 'serial killers' - in his classes at
Quantico.
Paleopsychology
R-Complex
"Billy Budd" by Hermann Melville
John Claggart's "evil nature" was "born with him and innate".
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