Rosemary West: A New Serial Killer

Moreover, Rosemary takes advantage of the children’s personalities by asking to forgive her for her extraordinary selfishness. Although the children are provided with a voice to forgive, Rosemary’s voice overpowers their identity. In comparison, psychological analysis supports how difficult it is to identify emotional and psychological abuse. The fact that the children have undergone such a heartbreaking experience, it does not mean the experience can be easily identified or treated because of its abstract nature. The victims of emotional abuse can only tell a story; they cannot transfer an exact replica of their experience to the person that is treating them. Jeannette and her siblings too, can only tell a story of how emotional abuse took away their voice. That being said, victims of emotional abuse in reality often should require psychological therapy, but, The Glass Castle optimistically shows that the children did not require treatment because the author herself seeks treatment through writing the book

This journal is written 3 authors: Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Central Florida and received his doctorate from the University of Cincinnati, Steven T. Holmes. Dean of the California School of Forensic Studies at Alliant International University, Eric W. Hickey, Ph.D. and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Justice Administration at the University of Louisville, Ronald M. Holmes, M.A. They constructed different types of females who are serial killers and discussed homicidal behavioral traits. It begins with differentiating

A serial killer is traditional defined as the separate killings of three or more people by an individual over a certain period of time, usually with breaks between the murders. (Angela Pilson, p. 2, 2011) This definition has been accepted by both the police and academics and therefore provides a useful frame of reference (Kevin Haggerty, p.1, 2009). The paper will seek to provide the readers with an explanation of how serial killers came to be and how they are portrayed in the media.

Rosemary had so many opportunities to save the Walls family from being dirt poor yet for her own selfish reasons, she never did anything to help the family. Just like a child, she won't take responsibility for her actions. “‘It's not my fault if you're

The most evident event in Jeanette’s childhood that proves Rosemary’s desire to satisfy her own needs before her children’s when the entire Walls family has little food, Jeannette sees that, “Lying on the mattress next to Mom was one of those huge family-sized Hershey Chocolate bars, the shiny silver wrapper pulled back and torn away” (Walls 174 In an interview with the New York Times magazine, Jeanette expresses her most current feelings towards her mother as she is asked “How could you forgive your mother for the way you were raised?” Jeanette responds “It’s really not forgiveness in my opinion. It’s acceptance. She’s never going to be the sort of mother who wants to take care of me.” Rosemary’s lack of care towards her children’s needs is evident throughout the memoir as she belittles the extremes her children face. After Jeannette’s Uncle Stanley touches her inappropriately, Rosemary tells Jeannette that, “sexual assault was a crime of perception” (Walls 184). Her disregard for a tragic event like this results in deep inner resentment towards her mother. Later in life these events encourage Jeanette to be anything but her mother. She learns to be a giving women who deeply values the needs of others. Her high standards to care for others is exemplified when she finds her mother digging through a dumpster and instantly offers to clean her up and provide her with food. Jeanette was able to put aside her feelings of resentment to care for the needs of her

In 1970 Rose gave birth to a daughter named Heather. Though with “Fred in jail, no money, and three children to take care of, the teenage Rose found it hard to cope” (Cawthrone, 2007). Rose’s temper was constantly flared, particularly at the fact that’s he had to take care of another woman’s children-she constantly treated Charmaine and Anne-Marie poorly. In the summer of 1971 8 year old Charmaine went missing, Rose told Anne-Marie that their mother had come to get her, though many believe Rose killed her in one of her temper fits. Fred was in jail at the time so it could not have been him, though he was a complicit in hiding her body under the kitchen floor of their home in Gloucester. When Charmaine’s body was found the fingers and toes were missing similar to Anna McFall’s. The two were now bound together by their crimes.

Imagine a world where there were no serial killers and the countless lives that could be saved. We should know why these serial killers commit such heinous acts of violence. This knowledge would help to better understand serial killers and bring the mortality rate down. It has been established through research and experiments that one’s social environment and upbringing affects their criminal behavior. Coyne states, “environmental variables work together to cause problem behavior.” (34) Interpreting that these killers usually have something happen in their life, usually when they are younger, and experiencing negative effects of nurture. Some of these

Rosemary’s hostile partners take a toll on her, nevertheless, she braves one abusive partner to another. She wants to provide Toby with a stable family and secure that is both financially and socially secure. Toby's dedication to remold his identity as a result of these hardships, Rosemary was never able to find a respectable father figure for Toby, one he liked and respected, yet she still struggles through abusive relationships in her attempt to find one. From the beginning, it is clear that Roy is an aggressive, untrustworthy man who lives off ‘disability

I used to believe that Rosemary was feeling very sorry for the situation that her children were in, even if she was an unconventional mother. The last part of the story I just read, convinced me that she had mental problems because not even a mother who loves her children would do what she did. Even surviving in such a situation was fluky for the children, and that’s why the government should’ve taken them from their parents.

Britain, as gloomy as the place can be with all the rain, it also has their own kinds of serial killers. One in particular catches the eye of many: Myra Hindley. Throughout her life, it shows her early years, love interest, the crimes she committed, the arrest/trial, and the aftermath of it all.

“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

Her sheer brutality is what earned her place in history as one of the world’s most prolific female serial killer. She was coined with the infamous lady or the blood countess as she is better known in the states.”

The first fragment of evidence is presented when she meets Ms. Smith and thinks “How extraordinary!” (Mansfield 1107), and that to Rosemary it all seems like an adventure and something out of a book. Rosemary continues to imagine telling all of her friends “‘I just simply took her home with me!’” (Mansfield 1107). Once Ms. Smith is in the home, Rosemary re-dresses her so that the

Still, her Father was not angry. He never was with her. For as long as Abby could remember, it had just been the two of them. She had never known her mother, who had died shortly after childbirth. Her Father had raised her alone, without the assistance of a girlfriend and hardly any help from the church. Part of Abby wondered if he was punishing himself for the death of her Mom. However, she would probably never know and never felt comfortable asking such a personal question. She forced the troubled thoughts away and smiled again.

On the way home, Jerry wondered if Marlene was drunk again and thought, I’m sure I didn’t hear her, Katherine can’t be dead. Driving into the garage, Jerry rushed into the house to find Marlene sitting alone in the darkness, weeping. After opening the curtains, he hugged her as tears poured down her face, he asked, “What did you say about Katherine.” Instantly, he knew he had heard her correctly. She screamed, “Someone murdered my mother last night.”