1. Serial Killers

2. Different Types of Multiple Killers
Mass Spree Serial # of victims # of events # of locations Cooling-off period no no yes

3. Serial Killers
Serial killer - commits 3+ murders over an extended period of time with cooling-off periods in between. In between their crimes, they appear to be quite normal, a state which has been called the "mask of sanity."

4. Serial Killer Profile Mostly white males with average intelligence
Avg age is 29.
Usually from unstable home.
Absence of a loving and nurturing relationship.
Physical ailments or disabilities (head injuries common).
Triad – Animal Cruelty, Bedwetting, Pyromania.

5. Types of Serial Killers
Visionary Motive Type- considered insane or psychotic.
Voices tell them to commit crime (some see visions). Eg., Son of Sam
Mission-Oriented Type- no psychosis, but has a need to rid the outside world of what he considers immoral or unworthy.
Will select a certain group of individuals to kill (prostitutes, young women, gay men, etc.) Eg., Pickton

6. Types of Serial Killers
Thrill-Oriented Type- For the fun.
He is very sadistic and kills for excitement. Eg., Zodiac
Lust Killer- Sexual killer. Not psychotic. Kills for the pure turn-on.
The amount of pleasure is dependent on the amount of torture. The more heinous the torture, the more aroused they become. Eg., Dahmer

7. Serial Killers Serial killers often keep mementos of their victims.
Souvenirs: Personal items allow the killer to enjoy the memories of the crime.
A trophy can become something of a shrine
Some keep Polaroids
Dahmer`s Bone Shrine

9. Common Traits Top 10 (According to Listverse.com):
10 – Alcohol and substance abuse
9 – Psychological abuse during childhood
8 – Sexually stressful events in childhood
7 – Bedwetting
6 – Growing up lonely and isolated
5 – Fantasies
4 – Preferring auto-erotic activities
3 – Voyeurism and fetishism in adulthood
2 – Acting out fantasies on animals
1 – Physical injuries (often head trauma)

10. Henry Lee Lucas
3 years old
Mother forced him to watch her have sex with strangers
Spent 3 days in a coma after mother hit him with a plank of wood
7 years old
Mother made him go to school dressed like a girl until he was in the second grade
She beat him when his teacher gave him a pair of shoes
10 Years old
Mother shoots a mule he was given as a present by a family friend
Murdered mother at age 24. Convicted of 11 murders. Linked with 213.

11. The MacDonald Triad Animal Cruelty/Bed Wetting/Pyromania
Secret compulsion seen as the seeds of greater mayhem.
Animal Cruelty – Dahmer often mutilated and tortured stray dogs.
Bed-wetting – 60% of serial killers wet their bed AFTER adolescence.
Pyromania – Destruction is sexually stimulating. Easy to make leap from destruction of property to destruction of human lives.

12. Organized vs. Disorganized
FBI has categorized serial killers into two different types:
Organized
Intelligent, planned murder
Kill in one place, dispose in another
Lure victims by appealing to their human nature (e.g. Bundy’s plaster cast)
Choose a victim to hunt
Cover their tracks
Closely follow crimes in the media
Often has close friends, lovers, spouses, and children
BUNDY
Disorganized
Lower intelligence, impulsive, unplanned crimes
Rarely disposes of a body, or covers tracks
Socially inadequate with few friends and often have a history of mental problems
DAHMER

13. Victim List of Subject # 1

14. 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

15. Method 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

16. Albert De Salvo, 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

17. 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.

18. Victim List of Subject # 2

19. 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

20. Method 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

21. Jeffrey Dahmer, 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

22. Outcome
One of his victims escaped and a neighbour 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’ skull and killing him.

23. Victim List of Subject # 3

24. Several other victims survived, the actual number is unknown
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

25. Method 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

26. Ted Bundy, Lady Killer
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.
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.

27. 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.

28. Quotes…

29. Gary Ridgeway: Green River Killer
Body Count:
49 - Proven
Possible
“I`m not a serial rapist, I`m a serial killer."

30. Ted Bundy: Campus Killer
Body Count:
35 - Proven
36+ - Possible
“You feel the last bit of breath leaving
their body. You’re looking into their eyes.
A person in that situation is God..."

31. John Wayne Gacy: Killer Clown
Body Count:
33 - Proven
34+ - Possible
“I should never have been convicted
of anything more serious than running
a cemetary without a license."

32. David Berkowitz: Son of Sam
Body Count:
6 - Proven
“I am deeply hurt by you calling me a
woman hater. I am not. But I am a
monster. I am the ‘Son of Sam’."

33. Jeffrey Dahmer: The Milwaukee Cannibal
Body Count:
17 - Proven
“After the fear and terror of what I had
done had left…I started it all over again.
From then on it was a craving, a hunger..."

34. Peter Sutcliffe: The Yorkshire Ripper
Body Count:
13 - Proven
15 - Possible
“The women I killed were filth-bastard
prostitutes who were littering the streets.
I was just cleaning the place up a bit."

35. Edmund Kemper: Co-Ed Killer
Body Count:
10 - Proven
“One side of me says ‘I’d like to talk to her,
date her’. The other side of me says, ‘I
wonder how her head would look on a stick’."

36. Aileen Wuornos: Highway Killer
Body Count:
6 - Proven
8+ - Possible
“I robbed them, and I killed them cold as
ice, and I know I would kill another person
because I’ve hated humans for a long time."

37. Harold Shipman: Dr. Death
Body Count:
218 - Proven
250 - Possible
"The only thing I did wrong was not having
her cremated. If I had had her cremated
I wouldn't be having all this trouble."

38. Andrei Chikatilo: Citizen X
Body Count:
53 - Proven
56 - Possible
“I felt a kind of madness and
ungovernability in perverted sexual
acts. I couldn’t control my actions ."

39. Pedro Alonzo Lopez: Monster of the Andes
Body Count:
110 - Proven
350 - Possible
“I am the man of the century. No one will forget me.”
“The moment of death is enthralling and exciting. Only
those who actually kill know what I mean…When I am
released I will feel that moment again.”