My research paper is on Anthony Sowell, a serial killer, identified in press reports as the Cleveland Strangler. My research will examine and explain Anthony Sowell’s life and history prior to his crimes, the crimes and personality theories that apply to his deviant behavior.
Anthony Edward Sowell was raised in East Cleveland. He was one of seven children born to single mother. Seven other children belonging to Sowell's sister also lived in the household, having moved in after the death of their chronically ill mother. According to Sowell's niece, Anthony’s mother subjected the siblings to physical abuse while her own children watched from adjacent rooms. In one incident, the mother forced her to strip naked in front of the other children, then, whipped her with electrical cords until she bled. Sowell himself began raping his niece on an almost-daily basis for two years, starting at the age of eleven.
When Anthony turned 19 years old, he left his family to join the United States Marine Corps. He served a total of seven years in the Marines, traveling and living in the Carolinas, Japan and California. Anthony trained and worked as electrician in the military. He also received many awards during his service and was eventually honorably discharged in 1985.
Anthony Sowell returned to Cleveland after being discharged from the United States Marine Corps. In 1989, a woman who was three months pregnant went to Sowell’s home voluntarily. When she tried to leave, he bound her
In the small town of Dickinson in Texas, on August 9th 1990, 8-year-old Jennifer Schuett was abducted by Dennis Earl Bradford. After being taken straight from her bed through her bedroom window, Bradford attempted to calm Schuett by reassuring her he was an undercover officer. Bradford then strangled, raped and lacerated Shuett’s neck, leaving her to bleed out in a field. Shuett recalls him asking her “Am I scaring you little girl? Am I scaring you?” Schuett was left helpless and immobile until she was found by children playing a game of tag. Bradford was not identified or arrested for his actions until 19 years later. However, before he could be tried, Bradford committed suicide in his jail cell.
Serial killers represent a social problem in many ways. Many innocent lives are taken away by these serial killers. We as a society should care if serial killers or spree killers operate within our culture because we never know that we or a family member could be next on the list. People’s lives are taken away by these criminals; people who have a whole life ahead
"Blood Loss, the decline of the serial killer" by Christopher Beam was published in 2011 on January 5th. The story was published in a magazine that is usually directed towards the general public. In his article, Beam discusses how the medias intrest in serial killers has decresed thoughout the years. He explains how the medias facination with serial killers has fluctuated since the 1920 's to now. Beam talks about some of the more famous killers and why the media found them so interesting and then explains how the number of serial killers has decreased since the media changed its fasinations from serial killers to terrorism. The main point that Beam is trying to make is that the population is only interested in what 's "trending". As stated in his article, "What child abductors were to the 20 's and serial killers were to the 70 's and 80 's, terrorists are to the early 21st century.", the trend that the media follows is always changing.
On June 20, 2001 a woman by the name of Andrea Yates, stunned the whole country with one of the most bizarre acts of violence that a parents could ever do to their own children. She called her husband at work and told him “I did it” confused by what was going on, he rush home only to find his house filled with officers of the law. The husband asked, “What is going on?”, and only to found out that his wife had drowned all five of their children.
This paper will focus on the well-known Canadian serial killer, Clifford Olsen. Born on January 1st, 1940 in British Columbia, Clifford Olsen can be described as a short and stocky man with brown hair and charming brown eyes. (Martin, 2011)
This paper is about one of the first serial killers in America by the name of Herman Webster Mudgett aka H.H. Holmes. This paper is about his childhood all the way until his adult years, if he had any education and if he did what was it, and it’s also going to describe the way he started killing. The paper is also about his methods of killing, how he got caught for his murders, what happened in trial, and if he got sentenced to time in prison or if he got sentence to death.
Considered America’s first serial killer, H.H. Holmes demised a plan like no other to torture and kill woman in the early 1890’s in Chicago, Illinois (H.H. Holmes, 2004). Masquerading as a charismatic prominent businessman, and caring doctor, H.H. Holmes was a true monster (H.H. Holmes, 2004). Known later as the “torture doctor” or the “monster of 63rd street”, he methodically planned, attacked, and controlled his victims till the very end (H.H. Holmes, 2004).
Ever experienced shivers down the spine hearing of any infamous criminals, or any crime incident, but was still intrigued to know as many of the interesting interconnected specific details in connection to the crime account? That becomes the case when one of the characters from In Cold Blood says, “A whole family. Gentle, kindly people, people I knew – murdered” (Capote, 66). In this chaotic human civilization, criminals appear in the forms of thieves, computer hackers, illegal drug sellers, hired killers, gangs, and many other forms. Some of the law-abiding citizens also play a role in the civilization by taking their sincere attempts to stop or curb such detrimental societal elements. Law enforcement authorities such as the police force or
Having the notoriety for being a vicious and uncivilized decade, the Roaring Twenties created just two serial killers: Earle Leonard Nelson – the serial strangler nicknamed the “Gorilla Murderer” – and the malevolently corrupted Carl Panzram. In the 1930s and 1940s, serial killers were few and far between. The cannibalistic pedophile Albert Fish and the anonymous psycho known as the “Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run” (aka the “Cleveland Torso Killer”) are the only known serial killers having a place with the Depression-era of America (Serial Killers Through History).
Abandoned and shunned by his friends, he began writing to serial killers on a whim and discovered that the same traumatic brain injury that made him an outcast to his peers now enabled him to connect emotionally with notorious murderers. Soon many of America’s most dangerous psychopaths were revealing to him heinous details about their crimes—even those they’d never been convicted of.
Cohle, Rust. " Serial Killer / Hitman - Richard Kuklinski (The Iceman) - Documentary." YouTube. 7 Oct. 2012. Web.
My paper will reflect how serial killers get attention. I will explain why serial killers commit crimes. I will talk about their genetic dispositions and if the person is programed to be a killer. All serial killers don’t always have a theory. I will talk about the importance of health, personal history, social habits, and the personality of the victims. I picked two serial killers the first one is Velma Barfield. Velma Barfield was a serial killer from South Carolina. She was born Margie Velma Bullard. She died on Nov. 2, 1984 from lethal injection. It was said that Velma Bullard killed 6 people. She did her killings from 1971 until
My paper is about Dr. Harold Frederick Shipman. He was an England physician who killed at least 215 and possibly 260 of his patients. He is noted to be one of “The World’s Most Prolific Serial Killer”. The manner in which he was raised in early life, greatly impacted his career, from his education up to the time of incarceration.
While he was in the United States Marine Corps, he went up the enlisted ranks to Gunnery Sargent aka E-7. He then applied for the Enlisted Commissioning Program (ECP) for the Officer Candidate School (OCS) (U.S. Marine Corps, 2016). Once accepted, he returned to his home state
The Student Scholar’s Day in James Commons featured several sessions covering different majors and topics. I attended Emily Murdock’s Into the Lives of Serial Killers: Psychopathy, Abuse, and ‘Inherent Evil’, from 9:30-10:45 am, which was a session by a student from the psychology department. Murdock’s research focused on serial killers, what makes a serial killer, and the psychological aspects and approaches that are underlying for a serial killer’s psyche. In the study that Murdock conducted, she mainly focused on four cases: two men and two women. However, in all four cases, the multifactorial approach was used, which included psychological, biological, environmental, and sociocultural approaches.