SERIAL KILLERS

Oliver, Nicole, Andrea, Daniela & Fernanda

WHAT IS A SERIAL KILLER ?

Two or more murders Several weeks, months. Down time or cooling off period.

WHY THEY MURDER?

Anger

Childhood behavior
McDonald triad: bed-wetting, arson and cruelty to animals. Broken homes and been abused or neglected. Financial gain

Attention seeking Psychopaths; antisocial personality disorder (APD).

Didnt recognize right from wrong

JEFFREY DAHMER
1960-1994) Dahmer murdered at least 17 men and boys. His murders were particularly gruesome, involving acts of forced sodomy, necrophilia, dismemberment, and cannibalism. The story of Dahmers arrest and the gruesome inventory in his apartment : several corpses

were stored in acid-filled vats, severed heads were found in his refrigerator, and implements for
the construction of an altar of candles and human skulls were found in his closet. Accusations soon surfaced that Dahmer had practiced necrophilia, cannibalism, and possibly a form of trepanation in order to create so-called zombies. The court found Dahmer guilty on 15 counts of murder and sentenced him to 15 life terms, totalling 937 years in prision. On November Dahmer and another inmate were beaten to death in the prison gym. Dahmer died from severe head trauma in the ambulance en route to the hospital.

ANDREI CHIKATILO
(1936-1994) Ukrainian serial killer Nicknamed the "Butcher of Rostov" and The Red Ripper. The victims were all women and children. The adult females were often prostitutes or homeless tramps who could be lured with promises of alcohol or Chikatilo would usually attempt intercourse with these victims, but would usually be unable to get an The child victims were of both sexes, and Chikatilo would lure them away with his friendly, talkative manner He was found guilty of 52 of the 53 murders and sentenced to death for each offense.He was executed by

money. erection, which would send him into a murderous fury. by promising them toys or candy. firing squad (shot in the back of the head).

RICHARD TRENTON CHASE

(May 23, 1950 December 26, 1980) American serial killer who killed six people in the span of a month in California. Nickname "The Vampire of Sacramento" Drinking blood of his victims and cannibalism. He did this as part of a delusion that he needed to prevent Nazis from turning his blood into powder via poison they had planted beneath his soap dish. Trenton Chase was found guilty of six counts of first degree murder and was sentenced to die in the gas chamber. Waiting to die, a guard doing cell checks found Chase lying awkwardly on his bed, not breathing. An autopsy determined that he committed suicide with an overdose of prison doctor-

prescribed antidepressants that he had been saving up over the last few weeks.

JOACHIM KROLL
(1933-1991) German serial killer and cannibal. Nickname the "Ruhr Cannibal" and the "Duisburg Man-Eater". He was convicted of eight murders but confessed to a total of 13. The police went up to Krolls apartment and found the body of a girl cut up: some parts were in the fridge, a

hand was cooking in a pan of boiling water and the intestines were found stuck in the waste-pipe.Kroll said that he often sliced portions of flesh from his victims to cook and eat them, claiming that he did this to save on his grocery bills. In custody, he believed that he was going to get a simple operation to cure him of his homicidal urges and In April 1982, after a 151-day trial, he was convicted on all counts and was given nine life sentences. He died of a heart attack in the prison of Rheinbach. would then be released from prison.

DENNIS RADER
Born in 1945
He was known as the BTK killer (Bind,

Torture and Kill )

He murdered at least 10 people Letters were written soon after the killings to police and to local news outlets, boasting of the crimes and knowledge of

details.
Rader plead guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.

JOHN HAIGH Born in 1949

Known as the Acid Bath Murderer.
He had killed a total of nine victims. Sulphuric Acid

He was led to the gallows by Chief

Executioner Albert Pierrepoint on August 10, 1949.

JAVED IQBAL
Born 1956

He killed 100 boys during an 18 month

period. He had been arrested in June 1998 for sexually abusing 2 boys He was found strangled with his bed sheets in his prison cell on October 7, 2001. I have no regrets.

GILLES DE RAIS Born in 1404

Was acused of tortouring rapeing and
murdering kids between 6 and 18 years old and at the end he cut their heads off. The number of victims were between 80 and 200 victims..

ALBERT FISH OR GRAY MAN

Several psychiatrists testified about Fishs sexual fetishes, including coprophilia, urophilia, pedophilia and masochism. Xrays of Fishs pelvis show needles which he inserted in to his skin for sexual pleasure.

ED GEIN

Texan murderer who killed and skinned more than thirty people in the 1950s, in order

to become women with skin

of his victims.

ISABEL BATHORY

He tortured and killed over 600 young and drank the blood of girls and bathed in it for eternal

youth and beauty.

HENRY LEE LUCAS

Henry was the youngest of seven brothers. His mother, Viola Lucas, worked as a prostitute, and his father, Anderson Lucas, was an alcoholic and disabled, he was the worst serial killer in American history, according to a confession made by him, he killed more than 900 people.

JACK EL DESTRIPADOR
"Jack the Ripper" London character whose tragic and bloody career began after murdering five prostitutes in the town of Whitechapel in 1888.

In London they realized that he was a serial killer when the police received a letter that said: "Dear Boss, for days I hear that the police have caught me but really have not found me yet. I hate certain types of women and I will not stop until I have finished gutting them. The latter is a great job; the lady in question did not have time to scream. I love my job and am eager to start again, soon will have my and my funny little game news...

TED BUNDY
Was an American serial killer, raptist, kidnapper, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls

During spring and summer of 1974 it disappeared several university and young mothers. An they estimated eight victims that were attacked in only one night.

Bundy clueless to the police because he knew how to

alter his physical appearance. He changed hairstyle, he allowed to grow beard and mustache or he shaved them. Bundy was characterized by loaded with books and go out an arm in a cast or sling.