My Life Among The Serial Killers Analysis

The Killers of Cereal One of the most famous questions of all time asks, “Why do serial killers, kill?” Everyone is different in their own way, so no one can really answer that question specifically. Dr. Helen Morrison, author of “My Life Among The Serial Killers” interviewed ten famous serial killers to try to answer this question. She found that almost all of them had similar characteristics besides killing. Unlike what most people believe, she surprisingly found that these characteristics did not include insanity, child abuse, or drug abuse. Instead she explains that their most common trait is that they have an emotional age of an infant. Other characteristics include fluent lying, the lacking ability to comprehend that they did anything wrong, and no memory of the murders however when they do remember they show no mercy. As interviews may work to get us an answer, Tony Ciaglia went about figuring it out with a different method. A method he didn’t even intend or know was going to happen. At the age of fifteen he was in a jet skiing accident and was struck in the head. When he came out of a coma, he was a completely different person. He had uncontrollable rage and didn’t
He murdered four men and three women between the ages of sixteen and twenty-nine. The killer originated the name “zodiac” in a series of taunting letters to the local bay area press. Each letter also included one-third of a 408-symbol cryptogram which the killer claimed contained his identity. The killer demanded they be printed on each paper's front page or he would cruise around all weekend killing lone people in the night then move on to kill again, until he ended up with a dozen people over the weekend. Unwillingly, they printed their part along with saying that they had requested the killer write a second letter with more facts to prove his identity along