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    Christopher Wallace

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    The Notorious B.I.G.’s Unsolved Murder Christopher Wallace, also known as The Notorious B.I.G., was born on May 21, 1972, at ‘St. Mary’s Hospital’ in Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of Voletta Wallace and Selwyn George Latore and was their only child. His mother was a Jamaican preschool teacher and his father was a small-time politician and welder. He had a difficult childhood as his father left the family when he was just two, leaving his mother to take up two jobs to support the family. He

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    Donald Gaskins, also known as Pee Wee, was a serial killer who came from a troubled childhood. He was picked on at school and beaten by his stepfather at home. As a teenager, he and his other two friends would commit criminal acts such as breaking into homes and raping young boys. The trio did this for some time until they were finally caught in an instance of gang rape. After the men were caught gang raping a young girl, they split up and two members moved away. Donald continued to break into homes

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    In the case of the murder of Sarah Stoat, less focus was placed on actually finding who or what may have murdered Sarah, but instead questions revolved around Sarah’s femininity and what was expected of her at the time that may have been a cause for her death. During this time period, the expectations of a female of Sarah’s age highlighted sexuality and chastity, with stereotypes that were expected to be followed for a girl such as Sarah. So, when Sarah’s body was found floating in a river, many

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    Final Research Paper Famous Serial Killer: Aileen Wuornos Molly Brook Middle Tennessee State University CJA 2100 Criminal Theory November 6, 2015 Famous Serial Killer: Aileen Wuornos On January 9th 1991, Wuornos was arre “I am a serial killer. I would kill again.” These are the chilling words of Aileen Wuornos, one of the few female serial killers the United States has had. Aileen Wuornos was charged and convicted of murdering six men along Florida highways between the end 1989 and the

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    Mark Rodriguez English 3 Honors Christina Nidowicz 29 October 2017 Annotated Bibliography Dr. Tedros. “Substance Abuse.” World Health Organization, World Health Organization, 2017, www.who.int/topics/substance_abuse/en/. Dr. Tedros, director of the World Health organization, refers to the harmful and hazardous use of psychoactive substances. He explains how the use of these drugs can lead to a change in behavior, a strong desire to take the drug, difficulty in controlling its use

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    A wooded area, a small town just north of Sacramento. Two preteen girls. Two bodies. Two close range bullet holes in their heads. On November 12, 1973, the bodies of two missing girls were found in Yuba County, CA. Over 60 people were actively investigated for the murder-rape until 1976. Then it went cold. Forty-one years later, investigators had two suspects (Thompson). After so many years, the key to finally deducing the crime lay in what the two men left behind, DNA. In a world of flawed justice

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    Introduction: This investigation examines the biological causes for serial killers’ psychopathic tendencies and examines those same biological factors in both men and women to find the correlation between a higher rate of male serial killers and the biology behind their actions. It is imperitave to first know what a serial killer is, and what makes them such a cold fish. There are sections of the brain that do have control over a human being’s personality, where that individual can either develop

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    The Future of Psychological Profiling CJ430-01: Psychological Profiling Professor William Formby Kaplan University May 18, 2012 The purpose of this paper is to provide an assessment of psychological profiling as an investigative tool for the future. The paper will try to focus on what happens if profiles are developed that have not accurately portrayed the apprehended. Additionally this paper will be reviewing the Baton Rouge Serial Killer and The Unabomer cases in order to answer additional

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    The movie Mr. Brooks was released in 2007 and is about a serial killer business man who is attempting to stop his psychological problem. Mr. Brooks who is played by Kevin Costner is a very wealthy man with a wife and one daughter. The movie starts by showing Mr. Brook’s success and the lavish life he lives. Also it shows his addiction of killing people as his conscious as person that Mr. Brooks calls Marshall. Marshall is the driving factor that urges Mr. Brooks to kill. As the movie progresses Mr

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    There are many common characteristics the serial killers tend to share. Many serial killers tend to exhibit varying degrees of mental illness which contributes to their homicidal behavior. They are often abused individuals, whether it be physically, emotionally or sexually. They tend to be more likely to engage in fetishism, partialism or necrophilia. The exhibit one or many of the Macdonald triad of predictors which include fascination with fire setting, are involved in sadistic activity which may

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