Charles Edmund Cullen : The Most Prolific Serial Killer

Arthur Shawcross is a man that committed his life to killing people. He was born on June 6, 1945 in Kittery, Maine. “Serial killer Arthur Shawcross was born on June 6, 1945, and died on November 10, 2008 while serving a life sentence for the murder of 11 women” (Arthur Shawcross 2015). Arthur is what is called a serial killer/murder. The term “serial murder” from our class notes means, “The killing of several victims in three or more separate incidents over time (separated by weeks or more)” (Miyuki 2017: Chapter 9, 27). Soon after Arthur was born, his family moved to Watertown, New York. Shawcross claims when he was a child, he was abused by his mother and the relationship he had with his father was not much better. Also, he claimed that this

Henry Herman Holmes was known to many as the first American serial killer. Better known as just H. H. Holmes, he committed many murders in a suburb on the south side of Chicago during the late 1800’s. Holmes once admitted to police that he killed 27 people, but many actually predict that the number of murders he committed is near 200 (Handley). So what is the real number of people that he killed? Let’s take a closer look at the facts of Holmes’ life, occupation, and the mansion that he built to determine how many people he may have actually murdered.

According Florida Gulf Coast University Serial Killer Database, there has been 2,625 serial killers so far in the United States, the most of any country in the world. However, this trend all started out with H.H. Holmes: America’s first serial killer. H.H. Holmes was born in New Hampshire as Herman Webster Mudgett in 1861. He was extremely bright in school and excelled beyond the other kids in his class. Because of this, he was bullied a lot by his jealous schoolmates. One incident stands out among all others, which was when Mudgett was dragged into the town doctor’s office and forced to confront a skeleton which he had previously found revolting. Despite the bully’s intentions, this cured Mudgett of his fear of skeletons, and made him more curious about the study of the human body and medicine, which piloted the rest of his career. Mudgett studied at the University of Michigan, where he finished college and medical school. Mudgett then moved to Chicago and changed his name to Henry Howard Holmes (H.H. Holmes) in 1886, where his torturous fantasies all began. Although this criminal mastermind only made one small mistake to make investigators red hot on his trail, H.H. Holmes should’ve been caught sooner because of his suspicious activities including the building of his castle and being involved in scams at the same time numerous people he was affiliated with went missing while selling copious amounts of skeletons shortly after they went missing.

Harvey Robinson, then 19, is a serial killer who operated between 1992 and 1993, where he killed three women and attempted to kill a fourth. His victims were, in chronological order: Joan Burghardt, 29, Charlotte Schmoyer, 15, and Jessica Jean Fortney, 47. His fourth victim, Denise Sam-Cali, managed to survive the attack and escape. Robinson murdered Joan by bludgeoning her in her home, Charlotte was kidnapped and stabbed to death, and Jessica died from strangulation. His final victim, Denise, was beaten. Each of the four victims had been raped as well.

Serial killers have plagued the world since before the 1500s. Theories have evolved over long periods of time for explanations as to why people begin killing. The earliest explanation was rooted in witchcraft and demonic possessions overtaking the person causing them to commit these acts of violence. Biological, psychological, and social theories have emerged over the years as society has developed and advanced. The latest theory suggests that the behavior of serial killers results as a combination of biological, psychological, and socialization factors. Despite the numerous theories trying to explain the phenomena of serial killing, no one knows exactly why or how seemingly normal people begin killing others. One of the most infamous serial killers was Donald Harvey. Harvey was a self-proclaimed “angel of death.” He murdered dozens of victims as a hospital aid. Due to Harvey’s difficult childhood and prolonged sexual abuse,  Donald developed a psychopathic-type personality disorder and killed dozens of victims.

The infamous Charles Edmund Cullen, better known as Nurse Cullen to most, is a former nurse (go figure) who is, in fact, the most prolific serial killer in New Jersey history. He is also suspected to be the most prolific serial killer in American history. He was apprehended December 15, 2003. Cullen was born in West Orange New Jersey. Cullen was sentenced to 127 years in prison as punishment for his terrible crimes.

I chose this case because it is located in Regina, Saskatchewan and it is Regina’s first serial killer case and that it is a shocking news for Regina to hear the news that there was a serial killer in their city that was walking around. The interesting thing is that it took the Regina Police Service three years to be able to catch Clayton Bo Eichler and that was not able to be found in this years. His technique of killing them and getting rid of them without any trace for three years was surprisingly advantageous for him to not to be arrested.

H.H.Holmes was America's first serial killer. He grew up in Gilmanton , New Hampshire. His real name is Herman Webster Muddget. He lived with his mom and two sisters . He was a middle child of his siblings and he was a mama's boy. He was born May 16, 1861. H.H. Holmes killed dozens of people who lived in New Hampshire.

To begin, Jeffrey Dahmer was born May 21, 1960 not too far from us in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While Jeffrey was still young his dad worked a lot of time of time in his research center and his mom was a print machine educator. Caring for Jeffrey was very stressful on his Mother Joyce and every little thing Jeffery did seemed to irritate her. Eventually Jeffrey's dad Lionel decided to do what was right and him and Jeffrey moved to his mom's house in West Allis, however the split's in the marriage begun to demonstrate early. There were constant fights amongst Joyce and Lionel and Jeffrey acknowledged each of these fights. Just before Jeffrey turned 4 he was diagnosed with with a double hernia that he needed surgery on. He was scared by the surgery,

For example, in 2010 17-year-old, Andrew Conley strangled his 10-year-old brother, Connor Conley, to death with his bare hands. After confessing to murder of his brother he told investigators, “he identifies with Dexter” (Thompson). Showtime drama, DEXTER, is about a man who lives a double life as a blood spatter analyst within the Miami Police Department and a serial killer. When taken to court Conley confessed to killing his brother and said, “he had an uncontrollable urge for murder and wanted to model himself after the TV serial killer Dexter…I feel just like him” (Thompson). It is quite startling to hear a 17-year-old say he identifies with a serial killer. Also, during trial Andrew stated, the day after he killed Connor he was fighting

Jeffrey Dahmer is considered to be one of the top serial killers of all time. Jeffrey is believed to be a top serial killer for several reasons, as he would drug and strangle his victims to death, he would also do a ritual to most of his victims over and over again. He had a necrophilia problem and would torcher his victims. In this research paper I will explain why it was believe that Jeffrey did what he did to his victims. I will tell about Jeffrey’s life as a child to his life as killer and finally leading to his death.

“I wanted to find out just what it was that caused me to be so bad and evil.” This quote from Jeffrey Dahmer explains what everyone was wondering when the crimes Dahmer committed were revealed. It is so unhuman to kill 17 men in just 13 years, and no one could understand why Dahmer did it, not even Dahmer himself. Jeffrey Dahmer had an interesting childhood which led to him committing several horrible crimes and leaving a lasting legacy.

H.H Holmes was not only “one of the first documented serial killers,” he lured dozens of innocent people into his “murder castle” where he performed cruel and disgusting acts on his victims. Holmes admitted to 27 murders but it is estimated that he was responsible for nearly 200. Holmes was an incredibly intelligent child with a seemingly normal childhood. What had happened to him to turn such a promising child into such a greedy and nefarious fiend.

The term ‘serial killings’ means a series of three or more killings, not less than one of which was committed within the United States, having common characteristics such as to suggest the reasonable possibility that the crimes were committed by the same actor or actors. Serial Killers often have peculiar personality traits that go unnoticed.

“The serial killer ‘is an entirely different criminal,’ ”The term serial killer is misleading on the ground that each murder is intended to be the last.” We see them as a figure of “the dark side of human potential,” but they believe they’re “on a heroic quest for the biggest score possible” They believe they are “the archetypal figure of impurity, the representative of a world which needs cleansing.” However, society knows that serial killers are not heroes, and they’re not cleansing the world. “The figure of the serial killer is violent impurity personified, and it is a construction that necessitates figures of violent purity to confront it.” While it can be argued whether having mental disorders should prevent a serial killer from being capitally punished, it is proven that many serial killers suffer from “paranoid schizophrenia, manic-depressive psychosis, or psychopathology.” It’s even said that “this crime is actually a form of disease. Its carriers are serial killers who suffer from a variety of crippling and eventually fatal symptoms, and its immediate victims are the people struck down seemingly at random by the disease carriers.” Serial killers usually have a stressor in their life that makes them start killing, and when they do “homicidal mania becomes ‘a necessity… linked to the very existence of a psychiatry which had made itself autonomous but needed thereafter to secure a basis for its intervention by gaining recognition as a component of public