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    Gary Ridgway, or the Green River Killer, was born February 18, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Gary had not died yet. Ridgway grew up in a troublesome household where violent arguments between his parents was commonplace. Ridgway’s mother would embarrass and humiliate him in front of the entire family. Still a little kid, Gary had an I.Q. of 82, indicating low intelligence. In high school he was a very poor student and had to repeat a grade twice in order to graduate. At age 16 Gary took a large

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    Countee Cullen was born on May 30, 1903 as Countee Leroy Porter. This remains as a mystery since there is no exact birth certificate. On his admission application to New York University, he wrote that he was born in Louisville, Kentucky. However, after Cullen gained a reputation as one of the most respected writers of the Harlem Renaissance, he claimed on several occasions that he was born in New York City. Another mystery surrounding Countee early years with his mother Amanda Porters was not long

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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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    In The Stranger Beside Me, Ann Rule and Ted Bundy’s relationship is portrayed as them being very close to each other. They both met in 1971 at the Crisis Clinic center where they both volunteered and were partnered up to answer phone calls together (Rule, 2009, p26). Through time it is shown that they could share anything with each other and always ended up with one of them giving the other guidance to their problems they have. For instance, Ted would always talk about his relationship with Meg and

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    The Whitechapel Murders and those of Jack the Ripper are not generally one and the same. Over a period of three years towards the end of the nineteenth century a number of prostitutes were murdered under different circumstances – the murder of prostitutes was not an especially unique occurrence during those times but several of the murders drew particular attention on account of the savagery with which the victim's bodies were mutilated. Within the Whitechapel Murders was a cluster of murders that

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    Compare franks murder of his 3 victims Frank lovingly describes the murder of his three victims. Banks may have been influenced by the ‘video nasties’ from 1970s-80s that has helped shape and form the way he has presented the deaths of his victims. The similarities of each victim are the way Frank disposes of them are all disturbing. The difference is that the reason for their disposal all have different underlining themes and messages that Banks may present his view through. When Frank was

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    I was not surprised why this film was considered as one of the greatest film ever produced. The movie was all about the witness of four people who gives a different story of a man’s murdered and the rape of his wife. The greatness of the film makes the journalist name an effect after it “Rashomon effect.” Rashomon effect is said to occur when the same event is given a contradictory interpretation by a different individual involved. The account of the four witnesses in this film is summarized below:

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