What Are The Different Types Of Serial Killers

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.

Despite the fact that no-one was ever brought to justice or charged with the murders, there have been more than a hundred named suspects who may or may not have been Jack the Ripper. Aaron Kosminski, Thomas Cutbush and Montague Druitt are some of the interesting suspects, whereas Prince Albert Edward Victor, the Freemasons, and Lewis Carroll are some of the ridiculous

A serial killer is defined as an individual who has murdered three or more people over a time period of longer than a month; with a process called “cooling off” in between the different murders (What are the Different Types of Serial Killers?). The FBI states that motives for serial murder include "anger, thrill, financial gain, and attention seeking.” Throughout history, the FBI has zeroed in on four different types of motives for serial killers, visionary, missionary, hedonistic, and power or control killers.

They believed because DNA from a male not matching anyone in the investigation had meant an intruder was responsible for the murder. The elite seven used world-renowned forensic criminalist, Dr. Henry Lee and his laboratory in Connecticut to dispel the concluded interpretation of the DNA evidence (The Case of JonBenet, 2016). The touch-DNA method is extremely sensitive and Dr. Lee proved that by testing a pair of brand new panties never opened out of the package. He was easily able to discover DNA from a female on the underwear, which could have come from someone in the manufacturing process (The Case of JonBenet, 2016). This explains the male DNA found in JonBenet’s panties and even more so, Dr. Lee explained how this DNA can easily transfer from one garment to another such as sliding on long johns over underwear (The Case of JonBenet, 2016). Dr. Lee’s tests and expert analysis discredits the district attorney’s choice to eliminate the parents as suspects (The Case of JonBenet,

I have not attempted to identify a named suspect as a consequence of my conclusions. In the course of an objective appraisal it is quite wrong to start with a suspect and then attempt to make the facts fit as so many later day investigators have done. Such an approach unavoidably leads to a skewed interpretation. I have, however, given a broad idea as to the type of man that Jack the Ripper may have been, and although such a summary may be of use to others, it lies firmly in the realm of

Forensic officer Robin Napper has found that the type off weapons used to kill many of the Ripper prostitutes were also similar to the weapons deeming used to kill his two wives. Napper had also conducted an investigation which proved that Deeming was not in prison at the time of the White chapel murders. He also found that the rituals used to display the victims including the awkward placement of object around the victims were similar and that he was just as aggressive as the Ripper. Much of his evidence confirms his guilt but there was not enough information to find him guilty to confirm that Fredrick Deeming was indeed jack the

Furthermore the bite marks that had been on Sabina were analyzed and came inconclusive. They went to two different analyst one said that it matched Roy Browns bite marks. As well as the other side it couldn’t be him because he was missing two upper teeth and it had a full set of teeth on Sabina. Then there was evidence on the night shirt that had DNA on it, but at the time they couldn’t analyze because the technology didn’t exist back then. Soon after that they did analyze and was not Mr. Brown. Next will be the case that took

“We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow,” is what serial killer, Ted Bundy responded with when an interrogator was shocked how casually he talked about hating women. The Oxford Dictionaries define serial killing as, “A person who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, or predictable behavior pattern.” People hear the term ‘serial killer’ and several questions pop into their heads such as; what kind of person can commit such terrible crimes? Or what drives a person to that point of insanity?

The victim considered to be the most significant was the second murder, Annie Chapman. At the time the second murder, Elizabeth Long, a witness, claims to have heard Chapman scream, “No!” at approximately 5:30a.m. (Douglas 61). Elizabeth ran toward the voice and claimed to have seen Jack the Ripper in the flesh. In her statement, Elizabeth described Jack as a man who was around forty years old, who was slightly taller than Chapman, and who appeared to be a foreigner. However, her perception of when the murder happened does not correspond with the time in Dr. George Philip’s report, who was the doctor who examined Chapmans body. He stated that Chapman had been dead for about 2 hours and that she died around 4:30 in the morning. Defending himself,

According to Cristina Sanza, a letter that claims to have been written by the Ripper states that the killer planned to cut the ears off of his next victim. A day after the news agency received the letter, Catherine Eddowes was killed and both of her ears had been cut off. The Ripper’s letter was not published until after Eddowes’ death; therefore, the Ripper must have been the author of the letter. Sanza announced that Jeff Mudgett had a handwriting analysis expert compare the letter and Holmes’ diary and he reached the conclusion that the letter and diary were written by the same person. Sanza stated that “just to be safe, Mudgett sent the sample to a computer analysis who insisted there was a 97.95 percent chance that Holmes wrote the

The idea of serial killers and the role they play in our lives has fascinated people since the cases of Jack the Ripper and H.H. Holmes, although serial murderers existed before them. The infamous and mysterious complexities of these cases have puzzled and terrified people for over a century. Perhaps due to the deviant and taboo nature of serial killings, people in our society and others have tried to attribute many reasons for why they occur. In this search for answers, one major scope has been widely left out of the research: the sociological imagination. It is through this method of understanding that I will attempt to explain the development of serial killers and apply theories that explain the frequency of serial killings in our society.

What is a serial killer? Retired Special Agent Robert Ressler, a twenty-two year veteran of the FBI’s Behavioral Sciences Unit in Quantico, Virginia, is responsible for creating the term “serial killer.” He defines this person as “one who commits a series of murders, usually three or more, the victims most often being strangers, and usually with a cooling-off period in between each kill” (Kelleher & Kelleher, 1998; Pearson, 1998; Ressler and Shactman, 1997). This precise definition is necessary to distinguish this type of predator from the mass murderer (who kills many simultaneously), mercenaries, war criminals, or mafia hit men.

A serial killer could be dining, sitting, or even living next to you at this very moment. Most killers offer little to no obvious clues that will lead anyone to detect their often secretive, undercover actions. I ask myself, “How can we be so naive to these types of people?” Serial killers amongst us are often well educated, portray an All-American image, yet have a psychotic side to them.

It was probably true to the others. In addition, a reason why the police were not to blame for not capturing Jack the Ripper is because the areas where the victims were killed were known to be a resort of prostitute and dark secluded streets, as Source E refers to the streets as "…narrow, dark and crooked lanes…", were ideal for business. Whilst in the act of this business they were completely vulnerable to attack. Before she could utter a cry, the Ripper seized her by the throat. He strangled her, at least into insensibility and lowered her to the ground like Source C states in the report on the body of Elizabeth Stride "...

The reason I am led to believe this is because of the way they did it for so long, and the way organs were taken out. Researchers said that they suspected many doctors of being the Ripper, because you would have to know the body anatomically. THE BRUTAL MURDERS OF FIVE prostitutes in London's East End in the autumn of 1888 by an unknown killer who came to be called Jack the Ripper' are probably the most famous unsolved crimes in history. First he would strangle his victims, cut their throats and eviscerated them. His last victim, Mary Jean Kelly, he completely butchered ,cutting off her breasts , taking the flesh from her legs down to the bone , eviscerated her also ,and cut out her heart. Joseph Barnet, her lover, identified her only by her hair color. Many of Jack the Ripper’s victim’s showed signs of cannibalism. No one is certain of how many people Jack the Ripper killed.