Richard Kuklinski

In an article called “The Traits of A Serial Killer,” by Simon (2004), psychopaths are not “created” over night, but rather their behavior can be connected all the way to their childhood. What trauma a child experiences plays a major role in the rest of his or her life. A serial killer, most of the time,

Kuklinski learned these tactics from fellow hitman Robert Pronge, referred to as "Mister Softee" because he drove an ice cream truck as his cover up. He admits that he has killed from anywhere to 100 to 200 people during his years of being a contract killer. An abusive father and mother, death of his older brother, and being bullied as a kid are three of the most logical reasons that Richard Kuklinski became a cold hearted man. Killing everyone that looked at him wrong was a norm for him. A psychiatrist diagnosed him with social personality disorder.

According to FBI Special Agent Robert K. Ressler, more than 60 percent of serial killers went the bed beyond the age of 12. Many are involved in vicious activities. Frequently, serial murders come from dysfunctional families, where the father is almost absent and the mother is often passively domineering. (Julieta, p.2, N.D.) Families of serial killers will often have criminal, psychiatric or alcoholic histories. Family members often abused the serial killer as they were growing up, physically, emotionally or sexually.

The mind of a serial killer can be very interesting in being able to find out what makes them want to do what they do. Knowing if someone was abused as a child and if this makes them more likely to become a serial killer or not become a serial killer is something I was very curious to learn about. Something that happens in a person’s childhood can affect the way they act when they become adults. I found two sources talking about childhood abuse and serial killers. The first source was an internet article entitled “Serial Killer Motives” found on the website How Stuff Works and was written by Shanna Freeman. The second source I found was a video entitled “Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer” which is found off of the website Big Think. This

The serial killer I chose to do my report on was Dennis Rader. Rader was born on March 9, 1945 in Pittsburg, Kansas and as of today he is still alive. Rader was the oldest of four sons. When Dennis was a child he hung stray cats. He grew up in Wichita, Kansas. Rader served our country by joining the U.S Air Force which he served from the mid to late 1960’s. He got married to Paula in 1971 and he work for a company that sold camping gear but he only worked there for a few years. He worked for ADT services in 1974.

Richard Kuklinski was an incredibly cold-blooded man. He had at least 100 confirmed kills, and claims to have around 200 total. Richard has a very horrible childhood. Richard liked to torture and kill animals as a little boy. His father abused him and his brothers, one of which was killed from the abuse received from Stanley. Stanley’s brother, Joseph, was pretty messed up, too. He probably would’ve turned out to be a serial killer himself. Kuklinski himself wasn’t like Ramirez or Dahmer, or any other serial killer for that matter. Kuklinski was an evil man, with a ton of interesting information about him out there.

Fred Korematsu was standing up for thousands of japanese-americans including himself even though no one else was helping him and having faith in him, even his family thought he was an embarrassment. According to Justice Robert Jackson, “the court for all time has validated the principle of racial discrimination … The principle then lies about like a loaded weapon, ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need.” What this is trying to explain is that Fred Korematsu was never taken seriously in court, because of racial discrimination, that just because they are authority they think that they can load a weapon or because they are judges they have the right to discriminate and put citizens in

During the Great Depression many people were left with nothing after the market crash. In “The Nations Asks, “Is it to Be Murder, Mr. Hoover?” argues why the states are getting relief but the people are starving in the streets. The author complaints of the lack of responsibilities the government has throwers the people by saying “lack of food and undernourishment must be charge up against the government of the United States” (195). During WWII many Japanese resident that were located in the west coast were force out of there house because of fear. In the source “Dissent in Korematsu v. United States” the author shares the court case of Fred Korematsu the violation of his rights as an American. Korematsu was arrested for refusing to leave his

The late 1970s albert Bandura developed a social learning theory which supports that aggression learned from watching other people as they receive rewards for aggressive behavior. Bandura's social learning theory applies to serial murders because of the principles of the theory that state children learn aggressive behavior through observing family, role models, parents and abused or spouses teach their children to be abusive. In relating social learning theory to Richard, one must look at his history. Richard grow up with a father and a mother that we know and have a violent temper clearly, he learned general violent to miss father and being numb to abuse by his mother. Pairing these behaviours with with the bullying he recived as a child a killer begins to emerge. Abandoned by his abusive father Richard began to kill anyone who reminded him of if is father.he was adopted by the mafia who rewarded him for his murders .the ice man was created.Any child would drastically be affected by those circumstances which we're seeing in Richard's case. His other brother also took a 13 year-old girl where he raped and killed her he is serving a life sentence. Obviously Richard was not the only one in the family affected by the troubled youth years of abuse and

Klinenberg in this article talked about the research done by the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The reason for their research was to find out matching pairs of the relatives that were involved in the heat wave and friends of the victims that can answers questions about the lifestyle of the victims. He was interested in the victims’ social environment communities. “The map of the Chicago community areas that experienced the highest heat-related death rates shows that the community areas hit hardest are concentrated on the South and West sides of the city, the historic Black Belt where the city’s African Americans have been concentrated and segregated.” (Klinenberg, 81) Klinenberg was interested in discovering why African Americans were

Richard Louis Proenneke (1916-2003), called Dick, has become an icon of wild living in Lake Clark park and Preserve. Born in Iowa, he worked as a farmhand and rancher before joining the Navy the day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Not many Ukrainian-Americans are easily recognizable to the average American. They may identify some actors, such as Mila Kunis or Milla Jovovich, but many do not realize the significant impact they’ve had on the American way of life or the world as a whole. George Kistiakowsky is a great example of an important Ukrainian-American who has influenced everyone’s life. Kistiakowsky was a physical chemistry professor at Harvard, worked on the Manhattan Project, and was President Eisenhower’s Science Advisor. His work could have possibly saved the modern world as we know it.

On December 6th, 1941 the world welcomed Richard Benjamin Speck, who would become a well-known mass murderer. Speck, having a rather rough childhood, had an extensive criminal background before committing the unspeakable murders that made him famous. After being found guilty, Speck spent his remaining days in Chicago’s Stateville Penitentiary. One can look at Richard’s personal history, crime and criminal history to try and pin him to one criminological theory, when in reality, none will really fit him to a “T”. He was a psychopath who was in great need of psychological help, among other things.

There are many traits that make a serial killer, with abuse during childhood playing a major factor. The four main aspects of abuse that seem to make killers are: emotional, psychological, sexual and physical abuse. The serial killer group has six times more reported physical abuse during childhood than the general population. Research has demonstrated that many serial killers have much in common when it comes to their childhood experiences Emotional abuse often diminishes a child’s self-esteem, making it hard for them to adapt to their surroundings, such as situations involving school or work. Due to this factor, most serial killers often find it hard to keep jobs and intimate relationships for longer than a very short period of time. Emotional neglect also impairs a child’s ability to develop empathy, therefore lacking compassion. If the child grows up to become a murderer, having no empathy means they are able to kill someone without

They usually hate their parents. Almost every serial killer is abused as a child, whether it is sexually, emotionally, physically, or psychologically. This abuse may come from a stranger or a family member, but many serial killers try to lie about this history of abuse. Most serial killers have records of early psychiatric problems and often spent time in institutions as children (i.e.: mental hospitals or psychological rehabilitation centers). They have an intense interest in voyeurism, fetishism, and sadomasochistic porn at a very early age, and they also have a very high rate of suicide attempts. Future serial killers share three other traits in their childhoods. More than sixty precent of serial killers wet their beds past the age of twelve. They also have a fascination with fire, which may be an early manifestation of their fondness for mass destruction. In addition, almost every serial killer starts his abuse and sadistic torture on animal victims (Fisher and Fisher, 2003).