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  Female Serial Killers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The first victim was a known rapist, two of the victims were retired or reserve police officers, one was a rodeo worker, one was a missionary, and the rest were truck drivers or delivery men.
What makes the revenge serial killer different is that they are driven by a deeper, more overwhelming anger, bordering upon the pathological, with little or no cooling-off period, implying a certain kind of obsessive attachment to the darker qualities of revenge that goes beyond what we normally mean by "motivated by revenge".
With at least one female victim, Charles committed rape before shooting her, and Caril is reported to have mutilated the genitals of this victim in a rage of jealously, but she denied it.
faculty.ncwc.edu /toconnor/428/428lect11.htm   (6186 words)

  
  List of serial killers by number of victims - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of serial killers by number of victims
born 1560, died 1614 number of deaths is conjectured, but 600 or so is the most common accusation.
A victim of Herbert Mullin was attributed to him originally.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_serial_killers_by_number_of_victims   (406 words)

  
 Vespa Serial Numbers -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Serial numbers are valuable in quality control, as once a defect is found in the production of a particular batch of product, the serial number will quickly identify which units are affected.
Serial numbers are also used as a deterrent against theft and counterfeit products in that serial numbers can be recorded, and stolen or otherwise irregular goods can be identified.
A volume serial number is a feature of the FAT file system used to determine if a disk is present in a drive or not, and which disk it is. This was created by Microsoft and IBM during their development of OS/2.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/158/vespa-serial-numbers.html   (1356 words)

  
 Serial Killers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Serial Killers 2-pack -- Former FBI agent John Douglas, the inventor of criminal profiling, leads a journey into the minds of the 20th Century's most notorious killers, including Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer.
The Pig Farm Murders by Mike Lewis -- British Columbia pig farmer and alleged serial killer, Robert Pickton, in 2002 was charged with 15 counts of murder in connection with the disappearances of 62 women from Vancouver from 1983 to 2002.
A study of attacks on Native women in Western Canada revealed even after serial killer John Martin Crawford's was released from prison in 1989, his habit was to cruise the poor side of town for prostitutes in his mother's car, Bill Corrigan, with a drinking buddy and former fellow inmate who participated in crimes.
www.karisable.com /crserial.htm   (3098 words)

  
 What Makes Serial Killers Tick? - The Crime Library - The Crime library
Herbert Mullin, Santa Cruz killer of thirteen, blamed the voices in his head that told him it was time to "sing the die song." The ruthless Carl Panzram swore that prison turned him into a monster, while Bobby Joe Long said a motorcycle accident made him hypersexual and eventually a serial lust killer.
Statistically, the average serial killer is a white male from a lower-to-middle-class background, usually in his twenties or thirties.
As children, fledgling serial killers often set fires, torture animals, and wet their beds (these red-flag behaviors are known as the "triad" of symptoms.) Brain injuries are common.
www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/notorious/tick/victims_1.html   (699 words)

  
 TRUE CRIME: SERIAL KILLERS, FAMOUS MURDERS
Serial Killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand.
She has also studied serial killers throughout history and shows how this is not a recent phenomenon with psychological autopsies of the 15th-century French war hero Gilles de Rais, the 16th-century Hungarian Countess Bathory, H. Holmes of the late 19th century, and Albert Fish of the Roaring Twenties.
In a decade marked by conservative politics and resurgent fundamental Protestantism, the serial killer was accused of attacking the traditional values underpinning American society and proved a suitable symbolic harbinger to manipulate public fear for political gain.
www.true-crimes.com /serial_killers.html   (1581 words)

  
 serial killer true crime library * serial killer news * list of serial killers * serial murder * female serial killers ...
At least three other victims are considered possible additions to the list, and three more managed to survive encounters with the stalker, offering police descriptions of a fl man in his early thirties, sporting a mustache and baseball cap.
The killer's chosen victims have been women, mostly fl and mainly prostitutes, tortured with superficial cuts before they were strangled or stabbed to death in a grisly "pattern of overkill," their bodies dumped on residential streets, in alleyways and schoolyards.
Number eight was Patsy Webb, murdered on April 15, with Cathy Gustavson joining the list on July 28.
www.crimezzz.net /serialkillers/L/LOS_ANGELES_SOUTH_SIDE_slayer.php   (704 words)

  
 SERIAL KILLERS
Serial killers tend to be white, heterosexual, males in their twenties and thirties.
After killing his first known victim during a national holiday, he left a note declaring: "I picked a juicy flower in Olsztyn and I shall do it again somewhere else, for there is no holiday without a funeral." Over the next three years, this sexual deviant killed and mutilated twenty women.
When the cops announced that the killer was probably "a blond, sexually impotent and cowardly homosexual," Greenwood, a fl man, was obviously not in their suspect list.
www.ta7.de /txt/listen/list0017.htm   (9754 words)

  
 The Serial Killer Hit List - Part I
Serial killers tend to be white, heterosexual males in their twenties and thirties who are sexually dysfunctional and have low self-esteem.
Not only was Herman the first American serial killer he was also, according to author Scheckter, the first "celebrity psycho." Although he never had the historical presence of his contemporary Jack the Ripper, he did leave behind an impressive trail of blood unequaled for almost eighty years.
Confirming police suspicion that a serial killer was praying on older women in the Montmarte district, on November 7 Alice Benaïm, 84, was found dead in her apartment.
www.mayhem.net /Crime/serial1.html   (19116 words)

  
 Object Relations - The Psychology of Serial and Mass Killers
The serial killer tightens the proverbial noose around his neck by interacting with law enforcement agencies and the media and thus providing them with clues as to his identity and whereabouts.
The overriding emotion of terrorists and serial killers, the amalgam and culmination of their tortured psyche - is deep seated disdain for everything human, the flip side of envy.
The serial killer and the mass murderer rationalize and intellectualize their murders by purporting to "liberate" or "deliver" the victims from a fate worse than death.
samvak.tripod.com /objectrelations.html   (18237 words)

  
 Category:Serial killers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Serial killers are individual people who have a history of multiple slayings of individuals usually unknown to them beforehand.
Their crimes are committed as a result of a compulsion that invariably has roots in the killer's (often dysfunctional) youth, as opposed to those who are motivated by financial gain (e.g.
For articles about people who have murdered four or more people in a single incident see category:mass murderers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Serial_killers   (131 words)

  
 The truth about serial killers, from urban legends and tall tales The Crime Library
This extraordinary murderer killed by decapitation unique in the annals of serial killing but then, he was a surgeon by training, brought down by alcoholism and drug addiction, and knew the human anatomy like the back of his hand.
His body count was in the high 20s, and unlike most serial killers, he rarely used a weapon.
One of the most intelligent and complex killers in criminal history, his case brought up the issue of whether he should be executed or studied so that authorities could learn from his behavior and his brain.
www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/history/index.html   (2804 words)

  
 Serial Killers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Differences Between Mass Murderers and Serial Killers -- In mass and serial murder the offender gains control victims as the dies.
Serial killers often keep mementos of their victims.
Intriguing 5 part series takes you behind the scenes of the search for the Baton Rouge Serial Killer through the eyes of a criminal profiler who worked the case.
www.karisable.com /crserial1.htm   (2552 words)

  
 Part 5: Serial killers -- they're not always who we think   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Serial murderers are said to kill without conscience, for power, even for pleasure.
Steve Egger, an internationally known authority on serial homicide and pattern crimes, said too much is made of defining spree, mass and serial killers.
Yet, the D.C. sniper is widely classified as a spree killer -- a cousin of the serial killer whose actions are often triggered by some rage-inducing event stemming from a perceived failure or rejection, killing anyone they encounter over a shorter period.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/109156_sinclairmissing21.shtml   (2444 words)

  
 CNN - Past offers clues in search for serial killers - July 22, 1997
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- As suspected serial killer Andrew Cunanan remains at large, law enforcement authorities are looking for clues to help them catch a possible killer.
Mason was a mass killer, a different classification from the classic serial killer.
Such killers are good at hiding, according to Lewis Yablonsky, a criminology professor at California State University at Northridge.
cnn.com /US/9707/22/catching.killers/index.html   (459 words)

  
 Serial Killers
Killers (admittedly perhaps the most technically perfect movie ever made) came out.
One man's list of his favorite (yeah, I'm worried, too) serial killers.
The tone of a man who might someday have a neighbor telling the camera "he was such a quiet, gentle man"...
www.mit.edu /people/thebeast/Cool/SerialKillers.html   (253 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Serial Killers: Books: Joel Norris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Norris here interviews a number of killers and, citing studies suggesting that violence is a disease requiring medical intervention, "calls for further research into the biological, psychological and social influences on serial murderers.
Through extensive research and interviews with five notorious serial killers, author Joel Norris demonstrates that serial killers have specific biological and genetic makeups that can be identified as early as five years of age.  A compelling read for both the curious layman and the concerned professional.
For instance, serial killers are compulsive trollers, who travel over ever widening areas to locate their victims.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385263287?v=glance   (1963 words)

  
 Healthcare Serial Killers
Healthcare serial killers are nothing new, but lately they have been making headlines far more frequently.
Many experts speculate that healthcare has contributed more serial killers than all the other professions combined and that the field attracts a disproportionately high number of people with a pathological interest in life and death.
With several cases pending and the news of serial killers in the newspapers, one would think the medical boards and institutions are responding to this seeming epidemic of healthcare serial killers, but Ramsland says healthcare is guarded about the situation.
www.forensicnursemag.com /articles/391feat1.html   (2317 words)

  
 Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community - The children of Serial Killers & their victims
Although they're survivors, they're victims too and have certainly had it tough (obviously, due to having parents, siblings or their mother killed).
They said he had even commented that the children of his victims were better off without their mothers because he believed the women he had killed were bad women.
The children of the BTK victims hopefully as adults, now that BTK has been caught and presumably to be convicted will have some measure of peace and be able to continue in their lives and their own children's lives without the spectre of Dennis Rader hanging over them.
www.websleuths.com /forums/showthread.php?p=639892   (3827 words)

  
 Chicago news, weather, sports, traffic and video from cbs2chicago.com
In the third edition of the series "Dave Price: All-Access Pass," CBS News' THE EARLY SHOW is giving viewers across the country a chance to fulfill their ultimate adventure.
Here is a list of haunted houses in Chicago and the suburbs, both for families and more mature crowds.
Richard Speck was Chicago's first mass murderer, and spent the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of killing eight student nurses.
www.cbs2chicago.com   (688 words)

  
 TIME Asia Magazine: Predatory Transients -- Dec. 01, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
"Predatory transients" are what police call serial killers who strike across vast areas or move to places where they have a better chance of getting away with murder.
To combat serial crimes, law-enforcement officials have tried to improve their technology and methodology.
They curtailed newspaper reporting on the growing number of missing boys until the killer had been apprehended, and they have ordered newspapers in Shenzhen to stop covering the murders there.
time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501031201-549075,00.html   (1041 words)

  
 The Mediadrome - History - American Gothic: H.H. Holmes
But at the same time, in another great city on the other side of the Atlantic, an equally cunning killer was claiming his victims.
The list went on and on and so did the evidence when a mound of human bones hidden among soup bones was found in the basement.
Unable to accurately describe him at the time, newspapers labeled him an archfiend and a devil, but the deadly Dr. Holmes can only be depicted as a killer-a serial killer.
www.themediadrome.com /content/articles/history_articles/holmes.htm   (2404 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Serial Killers: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
This is a great documentary on the selected serial killers(Jeffery Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy and Charles Manson) which also includes the origin of serial killer profiling.
What each documentary offers is a limited and quite dated view of the serial killers.
There's no interview with his father or anything, just a voice telling a story over pictures we've all seen before, with occassional clips of victims' families in court.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000050HEP   (831 words)

  
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