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    question‚ right? Wrong. You’d think in the 21st century people would be more open minded to other’s interests‚ but when you have an interest in serial killers like I do it’s hard to get a conversation past that simple question. I once when met a boy and he asked the million dollar question. Naturally I said "Well‚ I really like serial killers." With that he gave me a sideways stare‚ awkwardly shifted in his chair and refused to make eye contact for more than a second. Eventually he told

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    People become serial killers for a reason. The expression “Serial Killers” first presumably originated in 1970 by late FBI Agent Robert Ressler. Before this time society categorized them with Mass Murders. Agent Ressler was lecturing at a college when he heard someone describe the killing as having an unending ‘serial’ cycle. Going back to his childhood‚ he remembered the movie industry titled “Serial Adventures” which showed short films of Batman and other heroes. None of the shows that were played

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    Rebecca Taylor LaBrode discusses in her article‚ “Etiology of the Psychopathic Serial Killer: An Analysis of Antisocial Personality Disorder‚ Psychopathy‚ and Serial Killer Personality and Crime Scene Characteristic‚" LaBrode discusses the treatment available to individuals with psychological disorders‚ and she connects personality disorders that come from children with past traumatic events‚ but she also states that the disorder can be treated from an early stage in life. Labrode specifically says

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    A “Serial killer” is defined as a person who murders two or more people over a series of time‚ usually in service of uncharacteristic psychological pleasure. Serial murders are crimes that are not only observed here in the US but are observed all across the world. Serial murder occurring in countries such as Russia and China are rarely heard of due to restrictions placed on media outlets within those countries. Here in the US‚ the media has a tenancies to sensationalize the serial killer as well as

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    Copeland killers Would you think that two people old enough to be grandparents would be murders? In this case‚ they are murders Ray and Faye Copeland have murdered people and have kept their victims clothing to make a blanket out of them. As far as the motive is concerned‚ I would say that it has to do with the choice theory on how the main motive is criminal enterprise to just use the Drifters as long as they were needed and then get rid of them for good. Ray was born in 1914 in Harrison Arkansas;

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    In the beginning‚ before man was created‚ animals of the highest status ruled over the many regions of Earth. For the water region it was Killer Whales‚ for the sky region it was Eagles‚ and for the land region it was the Wolves. Before man‚ wolves didn’t stay in separate packs; they were one. Out of this‚ there was a kind and brave leader who went by the name of Luna. She ruled justly over her people‚ but being a just and powerful leader has its own costs. One day while out on a hunt‚ Luna and

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    intelligence allow them to thrive in any waters from tropics to Antarctica and even sharks are on the menu. Orcinus orca‚ the Killer Whale‚ can grow up to thirty-two feet long and weighing in at over twenty thousand pounds. They have been feared for hundreds of years by North American Natives and even mentioned in Greek maritime records. Their name when translated from Greek means "killer from hell" ( n.p. ). Unfortunately the freedom of these mighty sea kings is growing more limited as humans wish to capture

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    The mind of a serial killer has never been diagnosed. The environmental conditions have never been identified. The chromosomal patterns have yet to be determined. But serial killers exist. They are obsessed individuals for sure. They have no conscience and lack remorse. All the known characteristics of a serial killer point to something beyond our comprehension. Maybe it’s just something as simple as a work of evil. So‚ what is a serial killer? A serial killer is a person who commits a series of

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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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    that he had two viewpoints. One was to talk to her and try to date her and another much darker‚ how her head would look on a stick. Studies have found a link between damage to the brain’s frontal lobe and changes in the amygdala in criminal serial killers. Scientists say that damage to the frontal lobe‚ the hypothalamus and limbic system can cause extreme aggresion‚ lose control‚ and poor

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