Obsessed With Killing In the novel The Wasp Factory‚ by Iain Banks‚ All the characters possess an uncommon character trait. The main character‚ Frank Cauldhame is obsessed with killing. He has been obsessed with killing since he was a young child‚ when he murdered three innocent children. His obsession has evolved into a daily ritual due to multiple reasons. First‚ Frank’s dad has secretly put additional male hormones in Frank’s food since he was a young child. (Frank was born female‚ but after
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Jeffrey Dahmer or “The Milwaukee Cannibal” is one of America’s most horrifying serial killers. Dahmer began killing in 1978 and continued to kill until 1991. He murdered a total of seventeen males. Jeffrey Dahmer was not only a serial killer he was also a molester‚ a necrophiliac‚ and a cannibal. Jeffery Dahmer Biographay.com (n.d.) mentions how Dahmer usually found his victims “…at gay bars‚ malls and bus stops‚”. Dahmer’s method of killing often consisted drugging and strangling his victims. Thought
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Trevon Franklin Ms. Gregory Missouri History 31 October 2017 Granville Allen Granville Allen was born in 1910‚ in Kansas City‚ Missouri. Granville was the 7th person ever to be executed at the Missouri State Penitentiary. He was executed at age 28 on October 28th‚ 1938. Granville lived with his mother and some other relatives. Granville Allen was convicted in the Jackson County Circuit Court on the murder of Howard Preston. He shot Preston to death after he searched Preston’s pants and then threatened
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Roy Criner Case The body of Deanna Ogg was found in a secluded wooded area near an old logging road on September 27‚ 1986‚ in Montgomery County‚ Texas. The cause of death was determined by autopsy to be blunt trauma injuries to the head and multiple stab wounds to the neck. The victim was also sexually assaulted. Roy Criner became a suspect after allegedly bragging to friends that he had picked up and had sex with a young woman and "had to get rough with her." In 1990‚ Criner was convicted of
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Introduction Increasing more than ever‚ American society is fascinated with serial and mass murderers. Throughout the decades‚ people have celebrated killers who have reached the peak of success within their field by glorifying them in movies‚ documentaries‚ magazines‚ and even on trading cards. In 1991‚ a trading card company in California created its first mass and serial card collection‚ which included notorious murderers such as Jeffrey Dahmer who killed 17 men between 1978 and 1991. Dahmer
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Olvera‚ Lucio October 28‚ 2012 Green River Killer Investigation The Green River Killer (GRK) was a serial killer in the 1980’s who obtained many victims in the Seattle‚ Washington area. Since the 1980’s the technology used in criminal investigations have improved tremendously in efforts to aid investigators in their investigations. Some technology advances are in the field of forensic science the study of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and how DNA analysis can tell from what substance(s) a person
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Richard Kuklinski was a notorious serial killer‚ self-proclaiming that he killed anywhere between 100-200 people. He seems to have no remorse or regret for his actions. There can be several theories of crime causation connected to why Kuklinski behaved in this way‚ including the behavior theory‚ behavior modeling‚ and the nurture theory. Behavior theory states that all human behavior is learned through a social process. Kuklinski grew up in a home that often contained instances of violence; for
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Jack the Ripper was a murderer who has killed a minimum of five prostitutes in London. From what we know‚ he had killed Mary Nichols‚ Annie Chapman‚ Elizabeth Stride‚ Catherine Eddowes‚ and Mary Kelly. The murders all around the Whitechapel district started on August 10 and ended September 10 1888. The bodies seemed to be tortured and cut up in an unusual way‚ which showed that Jack the Ripper had an understanding of the human body. He would send letters to the Central News Agency about how he was
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Throughout history‚ there have been a number of criminals who have committed crimes of all kinds‚ especially murder. Despite the horrible things these people have done‚ one cannot help but be amazed at the bizarre mentality of one specific criminal: the serial killer. The way that these people have the ability to just kill multiple people without an ounce of remorse and show no humanity whatsoever has been mind-blowing to people for decades. What leads once perfectly normal people to such extreme
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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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