Richard Ramirez The `` Nightstalker ``

Throughout the novel, Richard Blanco experiences many events I may identify with. However, the event that reflects my life the most was the death of Julio. Julio was Ricky’s best friend. Late at night, while his parents had been

Richard Trenton Chase is a serial killer who is described as a disorganized visionary killer. He murdered six people in under a month before he was apprehended. Chase grew up in a very dysfunctional family, had borderline low average intelligence, and consistently received bad grades while in school. He suffered from erectile dysfunction at an early age. He spent much of his life in and out of mental institutions. During his short-lived murder spree he was delusional, he believed that the aliens and Nazi 's made him commit kill his victims. According to Storey, Strieter, Tarr and Thornton, "he drank the blood of his victims and ate their internal organs. He did this as part of a delusion that he needed to prevent Nazis from turning his blood into powder via poison they had planted beneath his soap dish" (para. 1).

Eventually Richard Rodriguez develops bitterness towards his parents. For being uneducated and ignorant, His thirst for knowledge has transformed him into someone who holds a distain for those without knowledge or esteem. Then he transforms into someone who feels guilt over his success. His family life has turned into an atypical situation where there is very little closeness between him and the other members of his family. This is caused by his increasing want to distance himself from what he believes to be uneducated.

Richard Ramirez’s chances at a normal life were greatly reduced by biology, but his environment certainly did not lead him toward a good future. Julian was a very abusive father and Richard witnessed him beating his older brother on several occasions. In spite of the violence and negativity that he faced every, people in his life thought of him as “a good boy” until he was about ten years old. (Bruno, 2012) Around that time, Richard’s Cousin Michael, a former Green Beret for the United States military, returned to El Paso from Vietnam. Richard and Mike spent most of their time together doing drugs and discussing the violence that Mike experienced during his deployment. Mike told him about the women who he beat, tortured, and raped just for pleasure, and Richard was very intrigued with his gruesome details and photos. At age

Every serial killer has their own twisted ways to doing their crimes. Richard Kuklinski is no different from other killers in this way. He started young, killing cats and other animals for the fun of it and to feel “empowered”. Different from other killers, he committed his first murder in middle school. Kuklinski beat a bully death and then disposed of it. A lot of their character traits relate back to their young family life. A common pattern in several serial killers is that their parents abused them in some way or the other. Richard Kuklinski, or the “Iceman”, is like these serial killers in the way that he was abused as a young boy. Although there are an uncertain amount of things that led Kuklinski to his brutal, senseless killings, some of the factors stand as: The abuse from his parents, his emotionless personality, and the money he earned from these killings.

A full police operation yielded no solid evidence, and Ramirez repeated his attack pattern on the couple, William and Lillie Doi in April 1985. Over the next two month period Ramirez's murder rate increased rapidly, killing another dozen victims in a frenzy of burglary, assault and

Richard Ramirez This American cereal killer also went by the name the night stalker. Ramirez was born in El Paso, Texas on February 29, 1960. His parents were Mercedes and Julian Ramirez and he was the youngest of seven kids. As a teenager he spent a lot of time with his cousin who had recently came back from the Vietnam war. Together they smoked pot and discussed satanic worshiping and Mike told Richard of the Vietnamese he tortured while over seas. The influence from his cousin along with teenage rebellion had led to Richards drug addiction and that led to petty crimes to support his habits. I believe the breaking point for Ramirez was when he witnessed his cousin Mike murder his wife. Hearing all the torturous story's and seeing his cousin

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.

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.

He was furthermore affected by his cousin, Mike, a Vietnam veteran. Ramirez may have been impacted such a great amount by his cousin that it could have built up his psychopathy who revealed to Ramirez appealing stories about the torment and mutilation he had experienced

Jasmin Guerrero Richard Kuklinski On April 11, 1935 a baby boy was born in Trenton, NJ to Stanley and Anna Kuklinski. His name was Richard Leonard Kuklinski. He became known as one of the most brutal and sadistic serial killers there ever was.

Between June 1984 and August 1985, a serial killer by the name of Richard Ramirez aka " The Night Stalker" became notorious in Southern California. Ramirez in his acts of crime would invade houses as the victims were asleep and attack them. He murdered over 13 people and assaulted many other. During the hunt for Ramirez citizens were on high alert so when he was fleeing the scene of the crime a teenager noticed a suspicious vehicle and managed to get most of the license plate number and notified the police. The police were able to find an abandoned vehicle and obtain a finger print and match it to 25-year-old Richard Ramirez and now obtained an image of him to put in the media. A week later, Ramirez was pointed out by citizens and captured

Richard Speck, infamous for the brutal murders of eight student nurses, was born on December 6th, 1941 in a small Illinois town called Kirkwood. Speck was number seven out of eight children, so his family was rather large. Margaret Carbaugh Speck, his mom, raised the family under a strict religious regime. The religious ideals that Margaret used to raise the Speck family came from her strict Presbyterian upbringing and her own family’s experience of helping to found a church. A major component of religious ideology that she brought into her household when raising Speck and his siblings was the banishment of alcohol. In fact, she even disallowed her husband, Benjamin Speck, from consuming alcohol. Though

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.

Other authors talk more about the aspect of serial killers having a type of disease that makes it impossible for them not to commit these crimes. Cartel (1985) says that in addition to the lack or non-apparent compassion or guilt that the killers contain, they state that they experience a euphoric state during or after these murders. It is like an addiction that they cannot overcome, feeling the need to kill repeatedly to achieve this “high”. Lunde (1980) states that sexual sadism, “ a deviation characterized by torture and/or killing and mutilation of other persons in order to achieve sexual gratification”. Lunde says this in reference to the fact that many serial killers rape their victims before, during, and even after the murder has taken place. He also references that fact that in an extensive number of serial murders, the cause of death was strangulation. This is very relevant because in strangulation deals with total control over the victim. Ramirez’s method of death was sometimes strangulation, though he did choose to shoot many of his victims.