"I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again Aileen Wuornsos

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Serial Killers
"I'm one who seriously hates human life and would
kill again Aileen Wuornsos
Caroline
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What is a Serial Killer?

• Someone who kills three or more people over time
  using a particular method and pattern
• Usually around the age 30
• 90 white

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Characteristics of a Serial Killer

• Traumatic childhood
• Traumatic experiences in life
• Private internal world of violent thoughts and
  fantasies
• Isolated
• Preoccupied
• Lack awareness of socially accepted constraints
  of behavior
• Divided personality
• The reality never fits their fantasy

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Men vs. Women

• Males usually kill strangers
• Females kill people they know (husband, boyfriend
  etc.)
• Men Dominant and control after killing
• Women Parental deprivation, childhood abuse,
  personality disorder, low self esteem

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Are serial killers mentally ill?

• Usually not
• Carry out high level of daily functioning
• Know right from wrong
• Deviant or pathological process occurring in head
  

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Are serial killers psychopaths?

• Psychopath Clear perception of reality without
  feeling guilt from committing a crime
• Usually not
• In the beginning feel guilt

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MUDA

• Maladaptive - Destructive to ones self or others
  - yes
• Unjustifiable - Without a rational bias - yes
• Disturbing - Troublesome to others - yes
• Atypical - So different they violate a norm - yes
  
• Can they function in society? - yes

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Why they kill?

• Feel powerless and hopelessness
• Never experienced normal communication
• Odd signs in childhood
• Have violent families
• Childhood trauma
• Violent sexual fantasies
• Women kill for personal gain
• Poison
• Men kill for sexual motives
• Torture and manipulate

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Aileen Wuornos Early Life

• Abandoned by mother when an infant
• Father was a convicted child molester
• Raised by her grandparents
• Neighbor said "She had a rotten childhood. I
  think that does have something to do with it ...
  The grandparents were very private people. They
  wouldn't associate with anyone. She had a
  miserable life on this earth. People can only do
  as they're treated," Troy Smith said.
• Age 14 Raped and became pregnant
• Age 15 Became a prostitute
• Traveled from state to state and created new
  identities
• Arrested for disorderly conduct

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Murders

• Claims she killed men for self defense
• 1. December 13, 1989- Richard Mallory
• 2. June 1 1990- David Spears
• 3. June 6, 1990- Charles Carskaddan
• 4. July 4- Peter Siems.
• 5. August 4, 1990-Troy Buress
• 6. September 12, 1990-Dick Humphreys
• 7. November 19, 1990- Walter Gino Antonio

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Being Convicted

• Represented by Billy Nolas
• Claims she suffers from borderline personality
  disorder
• Evaluated by psychiatrics
• Does not have a borderline personality disorder
• Past and crime have no relation
• Operates at a emotion level of a 2-3 year old
• Volunteer for execution
• Wednesday October 9th, 2002 executed by lethal
  injection

She is the most disturbed individual I have
represented. Billy Nolas
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Jeffery Dahmer Early Life

• Dissected dead animals at a young age
• Teenage years alcoholic
• Molested by a neighbor
• Parents divorced - left with only his father
• Had dreams of killing and mutilating men
• College dropped out and joined the army
• 1982 Moved in with his grandmother (22 years
  old)
• Arrested for exposing himself at a state fair
• 1986 Arrested for exposure of himself to two
  young males
• 1988 Grandmother kicked him out
• Stayed up all night
• Odors from the basement
• 1988 Arrested for sexually fondling a 13 year
  old boy
• Convinced judge he needed a therapist

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Murders

• May 30, 1991 Konerak Sinthasomphone
• Younger brother of the boy he molested
• June 30, 1991 Matt Turner
• July 5, 1991 Jeremiah Weinberger
• July 12, 1991 Oliver Lacy
• July 18, 1991 Joseph Brandehoft
• July 22, 1991 Edwards-escaped and notified
  police

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What the police found

• Multiple photographs of murdered victims
• Human remains heads and genitals
• Corpse were stored in acid filled vats
• Was attempting to create zombies
• practiced necrophilia, cannibalism, and possibly
  a form of trepanation

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Trial

• Indicted for 17 murders
• Pleaded not guilty by reason on insanity
• Court found him sane
• Expressed remorse for his killings and wished for
  his own death
• Sentenced to prison for life

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