1. What trait do these men share?
Change Your Life
What trait do these men share?
Change Your Life * *

2. Change Your Life
Change Your Life *

3. What Exactly is a Serial Killer?
A serial killer is not the same as a mass murderer *

4. These are the differences between a mass murderer and a serial killer.
Mass Murderer: Multiple Victims
Victims wrong place / time
Usually single crime scene
Single Episode
No specific methodology involved
Serial Killer: Multiple Victims
Victims carefully selected
Several crime scenes
Several episodes
Very specific methodology *

5. Mass Murderers vs. Serial Killers
The Dilemma: The guy sitting next to you at the bar keeps insisting that John Wayne Gacy wasn’t a serial killer but a mass murderer, which is really creepy. But is he right?
People You Can Impress: authors of true crime novels and suckers for semantics
The Quick Trick: The creepy guy at the bar is full of it: Gacy was a serial killer because he committed many murders over a long period of time; mass murderers commit many murders all at once.
The Explanation:  The difference here is all about the details—but then, any CSI fan knows that the magic of police work is in the little things. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Statistics Bureau (and yes, there really is such a thing), “mass murder” is a single event at one location involving the murder of four or more people. Kill three people at once, therefore, and you’re merely a homicidal jerk. Terrorism and government-sanctioned murder often are considered mass murder.
Serial killers, on the other hand, kill in a series of events. The killers usually don’t know their victims (the opposite is true with mass murderers), they almost always have “cooling off ” periods between murders, and they usually derive sexual excitement from the killings. To qualify as a serial killer, one needs three victims. It rather goes without saying, but serial killers tend to be pretty screwed up individuals. Although there are records of serial killers going back to at least 1400, the term wasn’t coined until the 1970s, when killers Ted Bundy and David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz were frequently in the news. *

6. Mass Murderers vs. Serial Killers
SERIAL KILLERS  GILLES DE RAIS (1404–1440): Once one of the richest men in France, Rais raped, tortured, and murdered between 80 and 200 boys—and a few girls—on the grounds of his various estates.
Long before there was Aileen “Monster” Wuornos, there was ELIZABETH “THE BLOODY LADY” Bathory (1560–1614). Some sources claim that Bathory, a Hungarian countess, tortured and killed 2,000 young girls (mostly peasants, but some lower gentry).
When it comes to British serial killers in the 19th century, Jack the Ripper gets all the press. But MARY ANN COTTON (1832–1873) was more prolific, killing as many as 21 people. Cotton probably poisoned four of her husbands, a variety of her friends and in-laws, and several of her own children with arsenic.
MASS MURDERERS
The term “going postal” has its roots in the case of one PATRICK SHERRILL, a disgruntled former postman who walked into the post office in Edmond, Oklahoma, on August 20, 1986, and killed 14 employees before committing suicide.
On November 1, 1955, JACK GILBERT GRAHAM put his mother on a flight from Denver to Portland with a dynamite bomb in her suitcase. (Graham wanted her life insurance money.) The bomb exploded midair, killing all 44 people aboard. *

7. LET’S INVESTIGATE 3 SERIAL KILLERS*

8. Victim List of Subject # 1*

9. Victim List of Subject # 1
1) Anna Slesers (55) Died 14th June 1962
2) Mary Mullen (85) Died 28th June 1962
3) Nina Nichols (68) Died 30th June 1962
4) Helen Blake (65) Died 30th June 1962
5) Ida Irga (75) Died 19th August 1962
6) Jane Sullivan (67) Died 20th August 1962
7) Sophie Clark (20) Died 5th December 1962
8) Patricia Bissette (23) Died 31st December 1962
9) Mary Brown (69) Died 9th March 1963
10) Beverley Samans (23) Died 6th May 1963
11) Evelyn Corbin (58) Died 8th September 1963
12) Joann Graff (23) Died 23rd November 1963
13) Mary Sullivan (19) Died 4th January 1964 *

10. Modus Operandi of Subject # 1
Victims all female
Age / race not consistent
Murdered in their own apartments
No forced entry
Victims all raped
Bodies left in obscene positions
Strangled, usually with their own silk stockings
Tied stockings in a bow under their chin
He terrorized Boston for 18 months *

11. Personality # 1, Albert De Salvo
Born in 1931, Died at 42 in 1973
Av height, Lg build
Married with 2 children
Various employment:
Army, rubber factory, shipyard, construction
Described as:
loving husband, devoted father, mild mannered, decent, neat and well liked by most
Change Your Life
Change Your Life *

12. Personality # 2, The Boston Strangler
The Measurer, The Green Man
Various minor crimes
Abusive father
13 victims as the Boston strangler
Rumored 300+ victims as The Measurer and The Green Man
Paranoid schizophrenic
Cold blooded killer, remorseless
Change Your Life *

13. Outcome
While in custody for rape and breaking and entering, he confessed to also being the Boston strangler, and murdering 13 women. His wife took his two children to her homeland of Germany at the urging of his lawyer. He was never tried as the Boston strangler, but was given sentences for his rape and burglary charges that would ensure he spent the rest of his life in custody. Six years into those sentences he was stabbed while in the infirmary and found dead the next morning. *

14. Victim List of Subject # 2*

15. Victim List of Subject # 2
1) Steven Hicks June, 1978
2) Steven Tuomi Sept, 1987
3) James Doxtator January, 1988
4) Richard Guerrero March, 1988
5) Anthony Sears March, 1989
6) Edward Smith     June, 1990
7) Raymond Smith July, 1990
8) Ricky Lee Beeks   July, 1990  
9) Ernest Miller    Sept., 1990
10) David Thomas   Sept., 1990
11) Curtis Straughter  Feb., 1991
12) Errol Lindsey   April, 1991
13) Anthony Hughes  May 24, 1991
14) Konerak Sinthasomphone  May 27, 1991
15) Matt Turner  June 30, 1991
16) Jeremiah Weinberger  July 5, 1991
17) Oliver Lacey  July 12, 1991
18) Joseph Bradehoft  July 19, 1991 *

16. Modus Operandi of Subject # 2
Victims all male
Age / race not consistent
Murdered in killers home *

17. Modus Operandi of Subject # 2
Victims all male
Age / race not consistent
Murdered in killers home
All were homosexual *

18. Modus Operandi of Subject # 2
Victims all male
Age / race not consistent
Murdered in killers home
All were homosexual
Victims all raped *

19. Modus Operandi of Subject # 2
Victims all male
Age / race not consistent
Murdered in killers home
All were homosexual
Victims all raped
Victims were lured to his home for intimate contact *

20. Modus Operandi of Subject # 2
Victims all male
Age / race not consistent
Murdered in killers home
All were homosexual
Victims all raped
Victims were lured to his home for intimate contact
Once there victims were drugged and tortured *

21. Modus Operandi of Subject # 2
Victims all male
Age / race not consistent
Murdered in killers home
All were homosexual
Victims all raped
Victims were lured to his home for intimate contact
Once there victims were drugged and tortured
Bodies were dismembered *

22. Modus Operandi of Subject # 2
Victims all male
Age / race not consistent
Murdered in killers home
All were homosexual
Victims all raped
Victims were lured to his home for intimate contact
Once there victims were drugged and tortured
Bodies were dismembered
Some body parts were eaten by the killer *

23. Personality # 2, Milwaukee Monster
Various arrests for assault
Devoted parents, happy home life
18 victims confirmed, many more suspected
Started unusual fascination with death as a small child
Necrophiliac, cannibal, “experimental neurosurgeon”
Cold blooded killer, remorseless
Change Your Life
Change Your Life *

24. Outcome
One of his victims escaped and a neighbor called the police, who believed Dahmers’ story of the boy being his lover and released the boy to Dahmers’ custody and his death. A final victim was lucky enough to escape and this time the police took notice. He admitted to the murders and detailed his brutality. He plead guilty and insane but the jury found him guilty and sane, while he was in prison one inmate tried to slash Dahmers’ throat unsuccessfully, the next attack (with an iron bar) was successful in smashing Dahmers’ scull and killing him. *

25. Victim List of Subject # 3*

26. Victim List of Subject # 3
1) Lonnie Trumbull, 23/6/66 2) Donna Manson, 12/3/74
3) Susan Elaine Rancourt, 17/4/74 4) Kathy Parks, 6/5/74
5) Brenda Baker, 25/5/74 6) Brenda Ball, 1/6/74
7) Georgeann Hawkins, 11/ 6/74 8) Janice Ott, 14/7/74
9) Denise Naslund, 14/7/74 10) Jane Doe, 2/9/74
11) Nancy Wilcox, 2/10/74 12) Melissa Smith, 10/18/74
13) Laura Aimee, 31/10/74 14) Debbie Kent, 8/11/74
15) Caryn Campbell, 1/12/75 16) Julie Cunningham, 15/3/75
17) Denise Oliverson, 4/6/75 18) Melanie Cooley, 15/4/75
19) Lynette Culver, 5/6/75 20) Susan Curtis, 28/6/75
21) Shelley Robertson, 1/7/75 22) Nancy Baird, 4/ 7/75
23) Debbie Smith, ?/2/76 24) Lisa Levy, 15/1/78
Margaret Bowman, 15/1/78 26) Kimberly Ann Leach, 9/2/78
Several other victims survived, the actual number is unknown

27. Modus Operandi of Subject # 3
All victims were female
All victims were white and single
All victims were young (late teens)
All had long dark hair, parted in the middle and looked similar
Usually abducted and found some time later
All victims were seen talking to a man wearing a cast or sling shortly before their disappearance
Abducted in the evening
Severely beaten about the head
Dumped in woodland *

28. Personality # 1, Ted Bundy
Born 1946, executed 1989, aged 43
Loving (church going) family
Married (in jail)
College graduate, law student, politically ambitious, rape counselor.
Respected and admired by (most) who met him.
Popular with women, generally considered to be a nice guy.
Served on crime prevention committees
Performed community service regularly
Change Your Life *

29. Personality # 2, Lady Killer
Chose victims who looked like his ex girlfriend.
Crimes spanned four states
Escaped from jail to resume his killing spree
Protested his innocence until he was sentenced to death, when he showed remorse.
Change Your Life *

30. Outcome
Bundy managed to escape detection by pure fluke several times before finally being caught for attempted kidnapping. His previous flukes were due to his reputation as an upstanding citizen, and his charm. After he was imprisoned for kidnapping, while awaiting extradition to face other charges he escaped and went on a further killing spree. This time he was seen trying to abduct a school girl, a few days later he was arrested again and sentenced to death. Hours before his execution he gave an interview, where he accepted responsibility for his crimes and wished to inform the public of the encouragement he had from pornographic material, saying it was an addiction that he constantly needed harder and more until he finally acted his fantasies out. *

31. In Summary…
This lecture has shown that no one is safe from serial killers, however, thankfully they are rare.
They target either young or old, or both.
They target men, women, boys and girls.
They do not have any identifying features.
They do not look like they are serial killers.
Quite often they are respected members of the community.
In the words of Ted Bundy: we are your husbands, your fathers, your sons, your mothers, your daughters.
The truth is that we only know people as well as they want us to know them. *