Serial Killers

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Ed Gein
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Serial Killers |
Psychology 130

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A Serial Killer is defined as a person who kills several people one after the other, seemingly in a random fashion. However, all of the killer’s victims share a common trait – usually they have activated some psychological trigger in the killer’s mind, or they have similar physical appearances. (Buzzle.com) Many serial killers are found to have come from a dysfunctional family. Often they may suffer from complex emotions such as feeling as though not enough or worthless. Some of them kill suddenly due to power or sexual urges. Most of these serial killers have a rich imaginary life where they are greater and powerful, women are attracted to them, and they are successful people. (Buzzle.com)
Many people have experienced this disorder. This disorder is very sad because believe it or not, being a serial killer not only hurts their self but the relatives and friends of the one they killed. There are many known serial killers. A really famous one is Theodore Robert Bundy. His name is frequently the first to pop into someone’s mind when “serial killer” is mentioned. He aHHe admitted to killing forty young women in almost a dozen states during his four-year control of terror.   He was so mainstream that the Washington State Republican Party hired him, so cunning that he escaped from jail twice, so dashing a figure that women sent marriage proposals to him on death row. (CrimeMagazine.com) What caused Ted Bundy to snap and murder countless young women and girls as young as twelve years old for no reason? Many of his early victims bore a physical resemblance to Bundy’s first girlfriend, who was tall and slender and wore her long brown hair with a part in the middle. Whenever he decided whom to kill, he pretended to have a broken arm or leg. He would come off as a nice, innocent, good-looking man so women would be attracted to him. When he killed his victims, he...