What makes a serial killer tick? A lot of psychological problems that most serial killers experience are some type of traumatizing event that happened to them or that they witnessed when they were younger.
Witnessing violence for some people can have deep effects. Some murderers claim that their exposure to violent events ignited their thirst for blood. But even truly traumatizing incidents doesn’t affect everyone the same way because not all abused children grow up to be murderers some grow up to be writers, law enforcement or someone completely normal. …show more content…
Growing up Jeffrey Dahmer would drive along backroads and hit small woodland creatures stop to pick them up and walk into the woods to gut them open and then eat them. Dahmer would also cut the heads off dogs and put them on a stick in his backyard. Animal cruelty is a disturbing red flag so if you’re child is doing so then one should get that checked out. For serial killers animals are often used as a tool for practice for killing humans. Torturing humans and setting fires usually leads to crimes against humans unless somehow the person gets help and the pattern is