Serial Killers: Where Do They Come from? and Why Do They Kill?

In the demented minds of men and women who murder again and again, sex, pain, and death are fashioned in to a terrible passion to kill. Rather than normal individuals who seek healthy ways to output their anger, serial killers turn to violence and death in search of overpowering others and to explore their own scandalous sexual identity. This is what their killing could really be about, although it may take many different forms.

Some of these serial killers view people, as puppets to be terrorized, murdered, violated, and then dispersed, piece by piece to leave clues behind for the investigators. Others, through a stubborn psychological chemistry, form a murderous composite identity- but remain relatively harmless on their own. There are those rare predators that, stalk through the human herd and attack the weakest members: the impaired, the homeless, the young of both sexes. Such men lead more or less normal lives in parallel to their murderous one. They have parents, fiancés, spouses, lovers, children, homes, jobs; they enjoy a drink with the boys, they fret about bills, and they aspire to better thing. Many even may want to be police officers. When apprehend they often reveal a host of reasons for their deadly acts; a authoritarian or missing parent, a prostitute who has turned them down, listening to the voices in their heads. They may even exhibit a self-pitying variant of remorse. While their behavior has been insane, however, they are rarely locked away in mental institutions. To be judged legally insane one cannot understand the wrongness or consequences of his/her crimes. These individuals commit not one, but a series of premeditated murders and then skillfully avoid capture. They may certainly be compelled to kill, but they are not insane in the eyes of the law. When society does pick up such predators, they are very sneaky which can protect them from a life behind bars or a cell on death row. Most male serial killers have an extensive history of severe...