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    Charles Cullen Nurse Killer The case I have researched concerns Charles Cullen. I had never heard of him until I saw his name on the list of suggested cases. It was Charles Cullen’s nickname‚ the Nurse Killer‚ which caught my attention. I had already started forming questions about the case. Questions like‚ “Why was he called the Nurse Killer?” “Did he murder nurses at a hospital?” “When did all this happen?” I wanted to answer these questions and was able to do so with my research. An additional

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    Spree Killers and What Made Them Snap What is the difference between a spree killer and a serial killer? Well it has nothing to do with the amount of victims. A serial killer is defined as a person who murders three or more people with a cooling off period between each killing. A spree killer on the other hand is someone who kills two or more people with little or no cooling off period in-between. Spree killers‚ or mass murderers are among the scariest types of killers because most of the time

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    The Serial Killer’s Soliloquy To kill‚ or not to kill: that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler to not murder The innocent people living pathetic lives‚ Or to take arms against a sea of people‚ Opposing me I end them. To execute; to terminate Lots more; and by terminate I end their pitiful Lives‚ and the thousand others that they bred‚ More fresh flesh‚ ‘tis a consummation I devoutly wish for. To massacre‚ to slaughter; To eradicate: to fulfill my dream: ay‚ there’s the catch; For

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    Charles Manson: Serial Murderer? Serial Killers Does the definition of a serial murderer only encompass one who commits the act or is the definition able to be enlarged to include one who leads others to commit murder? A jury in 1971 decided that‚ yes a person can lead others to commit heinous murders and be labeled a serial killer. Such person is Charles Manson. A serial murderer according to Steve Egger is a murderer that commits two or more murders for reasons that differ from

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    Gary Ridgway‚ also known as the Green River Killer‚ is a serial killer from Washington who committed an estimated amount of murders ranging between 48-90 female prostitutes or runaways throughout the 1980’s - 1990’s. He lived a fairly normal life with a wife and son‚ as a truck painter with a military background. He came off to many people as a good natured man‚ easy to talk too‚ and religious. He would constantly read the bible at work and evangelized throughout his hometown. Some of his interest

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    I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga Barry Lyga‚ 44 ‚ is a man that spent the majority of his career working on teenage age books and short stories. He has written a couple of other books the most famous being “ The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth girl”. He worked for the Diamond Comic Distributors before he started writing books because he spend most of his time and his childhood reading‚ looking‚ enjoying comic books. He has written two other major books one being Boy Toy‚ which was his second

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    Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper – Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell tells the story of Jack the Ripper and the story of who she thinks committed the crimes. Jack the Ripper was the self-given name of a serial killer during the late 1800s. Jack brutally slayed five known suspects‚ but many more deaths may have been because of him. Walter Sickert‚ an English artist‚ is Jack the Ripper according to Cornwell. In Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper – Case Closed the story is told from the author;

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    Arthur Shawcross: Portrait of a Killer and Pathological Liar Mark O ’Brien Serial Killers Professor Jim Reynolds Florida Institute of Technology June 16‚ 2012  Abstract Serial killer Arthur John Shawcross‚ also called the Rochester Strangler or the Genesee River Killer‚ was prolific in the short time that he was an active killer. From March 1988 to December 1989‚ Shawcross is believed to have killed 12 women‚ mostly prostitutes in the Rochester‚ New York‚ area

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    Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/bsl.595 Serial Murder in America: Case Studies of Seven Offenders James O. Beasley II‚ B.S.‚ M.P.A.* This article summarizes and compares information on seven interviewed serial killers in an ongoing project designed to study similarities and differences among these individuals. The aim of this article is to increase our collective knowledge of the dynamics of serial murder by examining the perpetrators’ backgrounds‚ as well as the unique

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    Retrieved April 15‚ 2008 From http://www.medicinenet.com/schizophrenia/article.htm Scott‚ S. L. (n.d.). Herb Mullin: Killing to save California from earthquakes - a new motive for serial murder? Retrieved April 5‚ 2008‚ from http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/mullin/index_1.html Vronsky‚ Peter (2004). Serial Killers: The Method and madness of monsters. [Electronic source] Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

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