Ted Bundy Nature Vs Nurture

At the most, Gacy fit in the psychopath category. To be a psychopath, you should have the inability to feel any guilt, shame, empathy, and lack of nervousness. Psychopaths are known to be highly intelligent, amazing liars, and have a failure to follow social life plans. The reason Gacy fit in this category was because he was easily able to trick others and, how easily was able to get opportunities to rape and murder the boy. He was also constantly lying about knowing the boys, not mentioning anything on what his past was, such as his criminal record, and what his true intentions were in starting his business. Gacy was very smart, but he was able to nervousness, the moment it came to investigating him, he cracked. Just seeing the cops go around

The nurture part of the debate is how the person was raised. The national center for crisis posted article “Serial killers: nature vs. nurture. How serial killer are born” going into detail about the crimes that have happened and if it was connected to their past and if they were abused at a young age. The serial killer may have been beat when they were young and they learned from their parents.

When you first think of a serial killer or you think of a psychopath you realize that they both have something in common even though they have different words to describe similar characteristics of a “monster”. John Wayne Gacy had an abusive childhood and struggled with his sexuality at a very young age, which these factors helped him become the person he did.

However, there are a select few as we saw within Ted Bundy’s case that they did not come from an abusive background. He grew up in a very loving home, with two very loving, and caring parents, so why did he still become a “monster?” From the studies, and interviews with him, he says that it is because of the pornography he was introduced to when he was young that put the thoughts of rape into his head. Yet, even though he personally said that it was the porn that enticed his interests, it is still argued that he may have been born with some sort of flaw within his brain. From the information that was found of his grandmother and her psychological problems may show that it can be a genetic problem. By these accounts, it would seem as if Ted Bundy would fall in between both the nature and nurture theories. He had psychological problems as well as, different encounters when he was younger, and when he was a teen that worked together to create his horrid ways.

Donald Gaskins Donald Gaskins was a concession to murdering people from 1969 to 1989. Before Gaskins was born his mom was young and a poor girl who had to quit school at the age of 12 years old to help her family pick cotton and plant tobacco. His moms name is Molly. She had intercourse with the well-known neighbor who paid her a dollar several times a week. Then she ended up getting pregnant at the age of 14 years old with Donald.

Gacy as a sadistic rapist. This type of sex offender can torture their victim, get excited over causing them pain and humiliation, are exceptionally abusive, and dangerous. They will most likely mutilate and kill their victims when they are finished raping them. Mr. Gacy falls into the subtype of pervasively angry since he has a history of antisocial behavior, low social confidence, driven by anger, and use excessive force which will result in physical harm to their victims (CSOM, 2016). Mr. Gacy did not have a good relationship with his father and had trouble making friends. After raping his young victims, Mr. Gacy would mutilate and kill them (Bio.com Editors, 2015). He also falls slightly into the category of approach–explicit (CSOM, 2016) because he did plan to carry out the crime with premeditation, did not want to get caught, but he did not groom his victims (Bio.com Editors,

As one studies other viewing and readings such as Silence of the Lambs, Dexter, Perfume, Natural Born Killers, True Blood, Dead until Dark, and The Walking Dead it can be found that both nature and nurture take a part in creating a serial killer. Dexter Morgan is a serial killer that developed a want to kill as a child. Growing up with a foster family he had all the love, nurture, and support of a normal child, but he had a missing part of him with the mystery of his dead mother. Harry, his foster father had recognized Dexter’s need to kill early in life and was able to teach him how to kill properly. Harry was smart in understanding there was no way to contain or stop Dexter’s desire to kill, but he

When examining Gacy’s, case it isn’t clear if his criminal behavior was biologically influenced from his father’s abusive behavior or because of his environment and his traumatic child hood. After Gacy Jr.’s execution, Dr.Helen Morrison examined his brain and he found nothing abnormal about it. This leads to the idea that his actions were either influenced by his DNA to be violent or his environment forced him to react that way. Gacy’s case is serious and unpredictable. He was loved and well known by all the people who knew him, so who would of though a clown would be murdering young men, while making sick kids happy. However, I do blame the researchers because they found out that Gacy suffered from antisocial personality disorder and paranoid schizophrenic, even they believed that his medical situation would bring him back to jail, yet they cut his 10 year sentence to two years and disregarding the fact that he was mentally

Through 1980 and 1990, Ridgway was to have killed at the least 71 people. In an interview he said he killed so many that the lost count. Most of his victims were runaways or prostitutes whom he had picked up and strangled along Pacific Highway South. A majority of the murders took place in 1982-1984. A lot of the bodies were dumped along the Green River, in the wooded area, hence the name”Green River Killer.” He would always keep up with where he threw the bodies, because he would later return and have intercourse with their corpse. Sometimes he would leave the bodies in a posed, nude position. Out of all of the women Gary killed, only 4 are unidentified. Most of his bodies were left in Washington, but often to throw off the police, he would cross over into Oregon and leave a few there. He would contaminate the crime scenes by leaving gum and written material belonging to others. His murders would start by just driving along and picking up a woman, most of the time a prostitute. To make them feel more comfortable with him, he would show them a picture of his son that he carried in his wallet. He would lure them in, get them to have sex with him and then he would murder them. He would always strangle them. Never would he use anything but his hands. You could tell where the girls would struggle,because he would have bruises and claw marks on his arms. After

Gaynor killed and robbed most of victims in order to obtain money for drugs. The most gruesome of his murders was that of Amy Smith. Amy’s body was found in her apartment a week after she was killed. Her 22-month old baby had been left alone with her body and had subsequently died from dehydration and starvation. He killed a total of 9 women by strangulation in a three year period and was sentenced to life in prison in May 2000.

Ridgeway became a pro when getting rid of the bodies. One the victim were dead he would soon get rid of the between an half hour to an hour. At his home he would take a rug amor a plastic sheet and roll the bodies in it. He said he would back his true up to his from door and put them in it. The victims were always jacket because he did not want any evidence to be on the clothes. One time a neighbor said in a interview Ridgeway had huge garage sales with a lot of women jewelry and shoes, which was odd. Now to known it was his victims belongings. He would proceed to dump the bodies in secluded, dark places often near the green river where he earned his nickname. He would dump three to five bodies in the green river area. He liked to do more

His relationship with his mother was troubled; she was overpowering and often teased him in front of family about his problem with bedwetting. Later, Ridgway admitted to having conflicting feelings of attraction to and wrath against his mother (“Gary Leon Ridgway,” n.d.). A low IQ of 82, and multiple failed years in school also contributed to his difficult childhood (“Gary Leon Ridgway,” n.d.). His first violent offense was at age 16 when he stabbed a six-year-old boy, who lived through the attack. The boy stated that Ridgway had laughed and said “I always wondered what it would be like to kill” as he left the scene (“Gary Leon Ridgway,”

Serial killers often grow up in harsh environment. This is the case of John Wayne Gacy. John was born on March 17, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, which he was raised by both of his parents Michael and Christine Gacy. As Gacy was growing up he dad became an alcoholic and began to beat him severely. His father would not have to be persuaded to do anything he would just do it out pure meanness, John could be sound asleep in his bedroom doing nothing and his father would walk into his room and beat him with a razor belt until he turned blue. While he was experiencing the beatings at his home in Chicago one of his family friends took him camping to “clear his mind” off of his dad. The camping trip was just a normal camping trip until something a happen to Gacy that is out of the ordinary. While John was sleeping he was sexually assaulted by the family friend, from that point in his life John wouldn’t ever be the same.

Considered the most prolific serial killer in United States history, The Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway, committed between 75 and 80 murders along Route 99 in Washington state. Gary Ridgway targeted prostitutes and, after having sex with them, would strangle them and dump their body in the woods surrounding the Green River. Ridgway started killing in 1982 and, despite being a suspect, eluded the police, even passing a polygraph test, until advanced DNA evidence linked him to three of the murders. He pleaded guilty to 49 murder charges, though he claimed he killed around 80 women, he received multiple life sentences. He avoided the death penalty by plea bargaining and working with police to locate the undiscovered bodies of his victims. Being

Ridgway experienced a very lonely childhood; he did not have many friends and was said to possibly suffer from anti-social behaviour, supported by Minzi and Shields (2007) stating, “his attitude, life history, and crimes all point to antisocial personality disorder” (p.87). During his teen years, Ridgway began to stalk women who previously rejected him, which is a large indicator of an issue occurring in Ridgway’s life. It is abnormal for teenage boys to stalk the women who had rejected them; these feelings towards women could have contributed to the reasons he killed those who he did, all being women. Miller (2014) claims that serial killers “begin to mentally rehearse more realistic scenarios for stalking, abducting, and torturing victims