Lipstick Killer Research Paper
Lurking under your bed and in the shadows lies the one thing that you fear most. You have not yet seen it, but you know it’s there, watching you sleep and studying every bit of movement. The only thing that you can think of is a scary figure that was in a horror movie that you previously saw, such as a murderous doll named “chucky” from The Seed Of Chucky. This is what truly terrifies someone. The unknown.
Whenever someone thinks of the word monster, the first thing that comes to mind is something big and/or terrifying that hides in closets and under the beds of children. Monstrosity could be described as a way to depict inhumane and devilish qualities. While this could be slightly true, monsters could be anything or anyone that seems truly …show more content…
William Heirens was a previous Vietnam solider, who had trouble adjusting to the normal world and depicting what was real and what was not. He served 50 years in prison, after the murders of three women between 1945 and 1946, giving him the notorious name of the “Lipstick Killer”. As he stated in an interview in The Monster Within, “The army taught me how to kill but it didn’t teach you how to stop nor the desire to do so.” With the traumatic background of his mother being a prostitute and his father being legless, by being ran over by a runaway train, he tried to tell of how this childhood experience played a part in making him become who he is today. The one thing that would fuel a serial killer would be sexual desires or the arousal that would be brought upon them by murderous acts. Micheal Ross would be considered as someone in this category, because he enjoyed the violent fantasies revolving around death. He enjoyed the thrill and screams that a woman gave him while she was being strangled. He felt as if this was a normal thing and that there was not necessarily a problem with it. If there was, I do not think that he would even
Whenever someone thinks of the word monster, the first thing that comes to mind is something big and/or terrifying that hides in closets and under the beds of children. Monstrosity could be described as a way to depict inhumane and devilish qualities. While this could be slightly true, monsters could be anything or anyone that seems truly …show more content…
William Heirens was a previous Vietnam solider, who had trouble adjusting to the normal world and depicting what was real and what was not. He served 50 years in prison, after the murders of three women between 1945 and 1946, giving him the notorious name of the “Lipstick Killer”. As he stated in an interview in The Monster Within, “The army taught me how to kill but it didn’t teach you how to stop nor the desire to do so.” With the traumatic background of his mother being a prostitute and his father being legless, by being ran over by a runaway train, he tried to tell of how this childhood experience played a part in making him become who he is today. The one thing that would fuel a serial killer would be sexual desires or the arousal that would be brought upon them by murderous acts. Micheal Ross would be considered as someone in this category, because he enjoyed the violent fantasies revolving around death. He enjoyed the thrill and screams that a woman gave him while she was being strangled. He felt as if this was a normal thing and that there was not necessarily a problem with it. If there was, I do not think that he would even