Edie Sedgwick

When you hear the words serial killer, you instantly think about people like Jeffrey Dahmer, Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, or Charles Manson. You don 't think about a family man with a wife and two children, county board member, President of the church congregation council, or a Cub Scout leader. Dennis Rader possessed all of these shining attributes. He also possessed a dark secret. This secret had festered in him from an early age and grew as he got older. Dennis Rader had fantasies about bondage, control

Sadism is defined as the derivation of sexual pleasure from the infliction of pain, suffering and/or humiliation upon another person. The pain and suffering of the victim, which may be both physical and psychological, is pivotal to the sexual arousal and pleasure. According to Bernard (1933) sadism hence represents a pathological intensification of the masculine mental character. Characteristics of sadism according to DSM IV (2000) is as follows: having over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent

When she left after Hannah hit her sister, Freeman went to get help from attorney Theodore Sedgwick. Freeman had previously heard the Constitution being read aloud, and she wondered why the rights didn’t apply to her. She believed slavery went against the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights. According to Catherine Sedgwick, Freeman said to Theodore Sedgwick, Catherine’s father, “I heard that paper read yesterday that says, 'all men are born equal, and that

opinions publicly throughout the Nineteenth century caused an abundance of females to communicate their ideas through writing. Catharine Maria Sedgwick was among the first of American authors to publish historical and other fiction. Much of her work deals with the role of white women in society, especially involving the Cult of Domesticity or True Womanhood. Sedgwick managed to incorporate her unorthodox views on women’s behavior, relationships, religion, and people foreign to her culture, while still

coextensive with the subject's movement toward what Foucault calls 'care of the self,' the often very fragile concern to provide the self with pleasure and nourishment in an environment that is perceived not particularly to offer them." -Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick   "Demanding that life near AIDS is an inextricably other reality denies our ability to recreate a sustaining culture and social structures, even as we are daily required to devote such time to the details of the AIDS crisis." -Cindy

The BTK Killer is a psychotic male named Dennis Rader. His murder spree started in 1974 with the Otero family. Dennis then went through 10 victims without getting convicted till 1991. Throughout Dennis's crime spree he would send messages and puzzles to KAKE and the police taunting them by basically admitting to it. The reason why they couldn't convict him was that they didn't know who it was at all. The police then send Dennis messages and Dennis sent a message back. Dennis asks the police if it

is nothing particular about it other than the fact that it is not normal. Her attempt to create queerness as a sort of democracy in which each individual determines his/her status as queer also has counterproductive consequences for queerness. Sedgwick, in an attempt to shift the power of labeling someone as queer from the straight labeler to the queer labeled, robs queerness of some of its potency and cohesion. For example, imagine queerness as being the popular table in a middle school cafeteria

Have you ever wondered why some people love art and music, and some love science and math? These individuals love math or art because they get a sense of relaxation and excitement from these activities. Serial killers are the same way they love to kill people and have lots of different motives for why they kill them. A serial killer is a person who kills repeatedly. The one motive that drove Dennis Rader, to kill his victims was to gain power and control over them. In order to identify

The Case Overview There were ten victims killed by Dennis Rader between 1974 and 1991, the first four of these being killed on one night. Rader created a nickname for himself the BTK killer; he chose this name because of the style in which he killed his victims, which involved binding, torturing and killing his female victims. He had many other aliases, most of which were self named. These included The Wichita Strangler, The Poetic Strangler and The Asphyxiater just to name a few. Rader talked

Dennis Rader, otherwise known as The BTK killer, was arrested in 2005 for the murder of 10 people. Rader began killing in 1974 by killing four members of the Otero family. The reason that Dennis Rader was called the BTK killer is because of the “Bind, Torture, Kill” technique. Dennis Rader began to write taunting letters and reporting his crimes, providing details that only the killer would know. In October of 1974 Rader placed a letter in a public library book where he took responsibility for the