Characteristics Of Male Serial Killers

It is an interesting concept that many world societies are amazed and shocked by the workings of serial killer. Mass killings have been apart of world history for many years, but in the past hundred years or so the world has seen an emergence of singular mass killers. As referenced by Culhane et al in “MMPI-2 Characteristics of Male Serial Murderers”, “Hickey (2010) estimates there are between 35 and 100 serial homicide offends operating at any given time in the United States” (Culhane et al., 2014, p.25). Serial killers/murderers are mostly perceived to be white males under the age of forty, live in isolation, maintain no close or intimate relationships, are unemployed or have minimal work, and feel they are treated unjustly by others (Auxemery,
As explained earlier, sexual and sadistic fantasies emerge because of the desire to suppress a serial killer’s anxiety and give them the feeling of power. In the case of a male being the sexual serial murderer and the victim being a female, the male will not only feel power through deciding their fate, but also by controlling them and forcing actions upon them. It can possibly be inferred that a male who sexually murders women will more likely be more aggressive and violent toward their victims then normal murderers. For example, stated by a former sexual serial murderer who murdered and raped five women, Roy Norris, “The rape wasn’t the real important part, it was the dominance” (Drukteinis, 1992). His comment supports the theory that aggression is fed by the feeling of dominance and power; that dominance is providing and feeding the aggression that will suppress their
For narcissism to be considered a trait in a serial killer, that person must not have low self-esteem. Low self-esteem contradicts the self-admiration brought on by narcissism. Aggression begins to shape the development or narcissism because it provides the feeling of power and dominance, which raises that person’s self-esteem (Schlesinger, 1998). Narcissists will also look upon people as objects to feed to their desires for self love. They will look at others as if they are looking into a mirror. Then they will begin to idealize certain traits or attributes that another person holds and will reflect it back onto themselves as if it were a trait of their own to feed their self-esteem (Knight, 2006). They seek out what they see as most admirable in themselves in others and use that to their advantage. This could be why they go after certain people because they want to feel the effect of looking into a mirror and seeing a great