Honora Kelly, Also, And Most Famously Known As, Jane Toppan

This is one of the oldest arguments in the history of psychology. Each side indicates valid points, making it difficult to fully decide whether the motives of serial killers and criminals lie behind a subconscious intention routed from trauma over the course of their life, or if it is predisposed in their DNA. When nature and nurture outweigh other types of psychological trauma, a criminal can turn into a killer. These ideas can trigger psychopathic, sociopathic, and narcissistic behaviour (“Traumatic Experiences in Childhood and Psychopathy” 1). Analyzing these concepts help give probable reasoning for criminal actions.

Mary Ann Cotton was innocent in the serial killing of 21 plus people. This includes 8 of her children, 7 stepchildren, her mother, 3 husbands, 1 lover, and 1 friend. Mary Ann Cotton was convicted of using arsenic poisoning to kill her victims. Ms. Cotton was a young nurse with a lot of ambition. The case says that the murders began to happen when she married her first husband at the age of 20 in 1852. His name was William Mowbray. Mr.Mowbray had died of intestinal disorder, but the case against Mary Ann Cotton says she killed using arsenic. But there was no trace of arsenic in his blood system or toxicology level. This is false and uncertain that he was killed with arsenic if he died of intestinal disorder, they falsely convicted Mary Ann.

From the beginning she was different than the other men and women around her. First of all she was Presbyterian from Kentucky rather than Creole Catholic. Also, unlike the other women, she was not willing to sacrifice herself for her husband or for her children. In fact her children were part of the reason she did, in fact, kill herself. She did it so that she could avoid and escape the responsibilities and obligations that being a mother had placed on her.

The mother (identified as Vivian L Schmith) was reported to have Alzheimer's, to have taken all the knives into her room, and who that Vivian be suicidal. Information on the incident included that the suspect had stabbed her husband (Walter A Schmith) recently.

She later confessed to 31 crimes in the New England area, and is believed to be connected to at least 70 other deaths, but they cannot be definitively connected to her due to the families of the victims refusal to exhumation and autopsy of the bodies. On June 23, 1902 her case was heard at the Barnstable County Courthouse in Massachusetts, there Jane admitted to 11 of the killings, and following a statement about how she enjoyed killing people and strived to kill the most people ever recorded, along with information of her multiple attempted suicides over the years, she was declared insane and it was decided she should spend the rest of her life in

According to statistics 50% of Serial Killers suffered emotional,physical and sexual abuse and neglect during childhood. Often times family members were usually at odds with each other and had malfunction and debilitating relationships. As young children they would be often forced to witness violent sexual acts between parents and family members. The forms of punishment that many had to face would cause them to suffer from humiliation, were normal if not always unfair, unpredictable, destructive, and wicked. When a child is merely neglected huge developmental failures can occur. More than 20 known Serial Killers were forced to dress up as a girl as a wicked punishment. They would also be sexually abused by family members and punished for masturabating as children. Such experiences in a young child will create violent fantasies that go into adulthood. From these forms of punishment a child would and will become desensitized and will begin to believe that this emotionally barren world that he or she lives in is normal. Thus due to these punishments a child will become devoid of empathy for others. (Gerber

In the late sixties and seventies, a feared serial killer, Ted Bundy, disseminated terror throughout the United States. He was connected to at least thirty-six murders, although some believed he had committed more than one hundred murders. Bundy confessed to killing thirty women in seven states before his execution by electric chair on January 24, 1989. Ted Bundy appeared as a successful and an attractive gentleman, who seemed to have a lot going for him. Nevertheless, ingrained was the heart of a serial killer! Ted Bundy was a psychopath; proving that the lines between sanity and insanity are thin; however, in the case of Bundy, it was on the edge of non-existence.

While the average person might have endured abuse in their lifetime, serial killers have rarely ever gone without it. Considering that a high population of serial killers have experienced abuse, it is obvious that a child who goes through these types of environments is more likely to develop a desire for killing. In a January of 2013 article titled 10 Most Common Traits of Potential Serial Killers written by Hestie Gerber, a digital marketing specialist, Gerber states that children who experience abuse or neglect often begin to normalize their emotionless, unloving home lives, which in turn causes them to lack empathy

Thesis: Psychopathy creates serial killers which can be caused by both biological and environmental factors that are out of the killer’s control. TS: Many people argue that psychopathy causes people to become serial killers and that it is brought on by a multitude of factors such as physical and psychological abuse from early childhood. SP: Peter Vronsky, author of Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters, provides statistics supporting that many serial killers have been abused or witnessed abuse in their lifetimes, stating, EV1: “Many male serial killers had truly traumatic childhoods: 42 percent reported physical abuse, 74 percent psychological abuse, while 35 percent reported witnessing sexual violence as children, and 43 percent reported being sexually abused themselves” (Vronsky 45).

In 1976 she was the first woman to ever get executed in the United States. Velma Bullard grew up being abused by her father. She disliked her mother because she never stepped up to stop it. Her mother's marriage was okay, until she had to get a hysterectomy and ended up getting back pains. Velma's father started having an addiction to drugs after the hysterectomy. The home that Velma grew up in caught fire and burned to the ground a few months after her mother left. Velma Barfield's mother had symptoms like: diarrhea, vomiting, and nausea but she recovered from the symptoms days later. A lady named Lillian had the same symptoms as Lillian and died on Dec. 30th of 1974. Velma had started caring for Montgomery and Dollie Edwards in 1976 and Montgomery died in 1977 on Jan. 29th. Dollie got sick as well and died March 1, 1977. Velma Barfield admitted to killing all the people. The way that Velma was getting her victims is by taking caretaker jobs. Record Lee was 76 years old with a broke leg. John Henry who was Lee's husband died on June 4th of 1977 after getting

A profile Report by Eric W. Hickey (2015) described Aileen Carol Wuornos was a serial executioner who had murdered seven men, broadly accepted to be the United States ' first female serial executioner. She was indicted six for the killings and sentenced to death, at last meeting her end through execution by deadly infusion. The result of an exceptionally broken marriage, Aileen had been subjected to terrible torments as a young lady. Her dad was a psychopathic pedophile who was in prison at the season of her introduction to the world while her mom was a youthful young person who deserted Aileen and her sibling. Raised by her grandparents, she got herself the casualty of widespread adolescence sexual mishandle because of her granddad. She never knew any ordinary familial relations and got to be distinctly pregnant as an aftereffect of assault when she was only 14—she asserted that her sibling was the father of her youngster. Presented to sexual exercises at an extremely youthful age she started giving sexual supports in return to sustenance, medications, and cigarettes when she was nine years of age. Tossed out of her grandparents ' home as a youngster she started squeezing out an existence as a whore. She later began ransacking and murdering men successively winning the reputation of being the main female American serial executioner (p. 316-317).

A dominant factor in determinating a child will become involved in homicidal activities is the environment the child grew up in. The worse the environment, the more abuse and violence, the greater chance the child becomes a involved in these illegal activities. The worst case is becoming a serial killer. The problem with serial killers is that most people find them fascinating more then monstrous, but according to Serial Killers” From Jack the Ripper to Aileen Wuornos by L. Andrew Cooper and Brandy Ball Blake, “... a few murderers show up frequently on people's list of real-life monster.” These serial killers are created by the withholding of emotions from the experience of childhood abuse the majority of the time. Even though many people are fascinated by the serial killer genre, they are still seen as monsters in society. The abuse the child went through can cause so much trauma to create a serial killer, and most cases that is where a serial killer is derived from. The use of abuse in the household has created this giant monster in society that is

My first piece of evidence is that i got from her was “She liked the warm glow he had”. This shows that she loved him and cared for him and etc. Which will be evidence to that she didn’t mean it when he killed him. She felt betrayed that he would say that he was going to get a divorce with her and she had a six month baby which was a terrible thing to do to a pregnant woman. That is a reason why she slowly started to go crazy.

Before we get to our final suspect I’d like to note that over 50 people have confessed to killer her, but none were proven guilty. Many people also think a women was the killer. People think, that because the body was so heavy, the murderer couldn’t move the body so she was cut in half. A bunch of people have also called in and said their relatives were the killer.

Don’t have many friends, were probably bullied or rejected in school. Here it is shown that Claudia does have a similar life and traits of some of the famous serial killers in history