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Characteristics of a Serial Killer
  • Wetting the bed beyond the age of 12
  • Cruelty to animals
  • Sadists activity
  • Being obsessed with setting fires and burning things
  • Over 90% are males
  • High IQ’s, but do poorly in school.
  • Hard time holding jobs
  • Often come from unstable families
  • Abandoned by fathers and raised by domineering mothers
  • History of criminals, alcoholics, and psychiatric problems in families
  • Hate their parents
  • Abused as kids- sexually, physically, and emotionally. (often by family members)
  • High rates of suicide attempts
  • Often start out as peepers
  • Tend to be loners and very anti-social as kids
  • Spend time in institutions and have early psychiatric problems
  • Very interested in voyeurism, fetishism, and sado-masochistic pornography at an early age


Some Random Facts
  • 85% of the world's serial killers are in America
  • all serial killers suffer from Antisocial Personality Disorder
  • At any given time 20 - 50 unidentified active serial killers are at work continually changing their targets and methods
  • usually they appear normal or charming, sometimes referred to as the "mask of sanity."
  • The term "serial killer" was coined in the mid-1970s by Robert Ressler, the former director of the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program
  • The FBI defines a serial killer as one who murders three or more victims, with "cooling-off" periods between each murder
  • According to a recent FBI study, there have been approximately 400 serial killers in the U.S. in the past century, with anywhere from 2,526 to 3,860 victims
  • Eighty percent of the 400 serial killers of the past century have emerged since 1950
  • Criminologists James A. Fox and Jack Levin did a study in 2001 and found that:
  • 73% white; 22% African American; 5% different ethnic groups
  • 1999 database of 107 serial killers revealed an overall age of 30; 95% males; 5% females; 16% African-American
  • only 4% graduated with a Bachelor's degree
  • definitions:
  • A hunter, dictator, butterfly collector or anyone else whose hobby is the extermination of life
  • someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval
  • A serial killer is a person who murders three or more people with a 'cooling off' period between each murder and whose motivation for killing is largely based on psychological gratification.One hypothesis is that all serial killers suffer from some form of Antisocial Personality Disorder
  • a person who commits multiple (more than two) murders, especially similar ones with no obvious motive



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