Serial Killers
Title: The Evolution of serial Killers
Introduction:
For centuries Stories about Serial killers have graced the covers of newspapers and magazines. Famous stories like “Jack The Ripper” and Edward “Ed” Gein, which influenced many popular films such as Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs. There are so many questions surrounding this topic one being: Nature versus Nurture? Is this need to kill a simply male completion in an effort to show status and be “The Alpha Male”? If this is true then why are there Female serial killers? Or is this just natures survival of the “fittest” like animals “kill or be killed”? Ultimately can this be broken down to a scientific explanation? Darwin’s theory of evolution of certain genetic traits that have helped animals as well as humans adapt to their surrounding can be found through countless examples. Which brings me to the question is there a certain common trait found in these serial killers? And if so what is it?
Outline: I. Serial killers behavior and traits A. Serial killers can be classified by their social and organizational skills. B. They can be organized or disorganized, which varies by type of crime scene. They also can be nonsocial or asocial, meaning that they are excluded from society or they exclude themselves. 1. Majority of serial killers are organized and nonsocial. a. An example of organized and nonsocial is they have an IQ. of 105-120, married or dates, possibly college educated, leaves a controlled crime scene, kills in one place and disposes in another and has conversations with the victims. b. An example of a disorganized and asocial is they have an IQ of 80-95, lives alone and does not date, possibly high school dropout, kills and leaves corpse at the scene and depersonalizes victims, thinks of them as “it”.
C. Serial killers have often shown three common behaviors in there childhood. 1. These are known as the Macdonald triad they include; bed-wetting, firer
Introduction:
For centuries Stories about Serial killers have graced the covers of newspapers and magazines. Famous stories like “Jack The Ripper” and Edward “Ed” Gein, which influenced many popular films such as Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs. There are so many questions surrounding this topic one being: Nature versus Nurture? Is this need to kill a simply male completion in an effort to show status and be “The Alpha Male”? If this is true then why are there Female serial killers? Or is this just natures survival of the “fittest” like animals “kill or be killed”? Ultimately can this be broken down to a scientific explanation? Darwin’s theory of evolution of certain genetic traits that have helped animals as well as humans adapt to their surrounding can be found through countless examples. Which brings me to the question is there a certain common trait found in these serial killers? And if so what is it?
Outline: I. Serial killers behavior and traits A. Serial killers can be classified by their social and organizational skills. B. They can be organized or disorganized, which varies by type of crime scene. They also can be nonsocial or asocial, meaning that they are excluded from society or they exclude themselves. 1. Majority of serial killers are organized and nonsocial. a. An example of organized and nonsocial is they have an IQ. of 105-120, married or dates, possibly college educated, leaves a controlled crime scene, kills in one place and disposes in another and has conversations with the victims. b. An example of a disorganized and asocial is they have an IQ of 80-95, lives alone and does not date, possibly high school dropout, kills and leaves corpse at the scene and depersonalizes victims, thinks of them as “it”.
C. Serial killers have often shown three common behaviors in there childhood. 1. These are known as the Macdonald triad they include; bed-wetting, firer
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