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Serial Killers: A Brief Summary

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Allely, Minnis, Thompson, Wilson, Gillberg (2014), purposed that there was a relation between autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), head injuries, psychosocial stressors and aggressive behaviors that could lead to serial murder. To conduct their research, they reviewed articles covering the cases of 239 killers (Allely, et al., 2014). They discovered that 28% killers suffered from ASD, 21.34% had recorded head traumas, 13.72% had both ASD and head traumas and 55% experienced psychosocial stressors. To aid in their hypothesis they reviewed case studies of two serial killers. They started by reviewing Jeffrey Dahmer. To begin they provided a background of Dahmer’s murders, he was accused of murdering 17 men, over the course of 13 years (Allely,

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