Essay on What Motivates Murdresses to Kill - 2069 Words

Serial Killer do not act on impulse. They are extremely organized and meticulously plan well thought out in order for them to commit their vicious crimes time and time again, as well as cover up all evidence for their actions. Serial killers, either male or female, are not born killers, they are made killers. For hundreds of years researchers have tried to understand how serial killers think. Researchers have narrowed down to three reason as to why they do the things they do. The first is socioeconomic factors, the second is biological factors, and the last is simply by individual choice. The truth is so so simple, but at the same time so puzzling. Researchers have even tried to see if there are any chromosome patterns to determine if it†¦show more content†¦According to Dr. Michael Welner (a forensic psychiatrist and professor at a New York University) â€Å"Both[serial killers and mass murders], surely, are simply multicides. The determining differential diagnostic featur e depends upon the identification of the psychological motivation of the killer. The mass murderer kills numbers of people for any one, or any combination of the normally recognised classic motives. The serial killer kills primarily for a compulsive sexual reason, often a repulsive one, Lustmord, although, just to make things more complicated, adjunctive benefits may, accidentally as it were, accrue .† A serial killer is a person who kills four people or more in a short period of time, then takes some time off to recuperate also known as a â€Å"cooling off† period. Please do not confuse a serial killer from a mass murdered. (A mass murderer murders one after the other after the other.) When undergoing an investigation, detectives can usually detect if the murderer was a male or a female. Males tend to be more violent than women. Women usually kill with poison, they try to make it look like an accident, so in another words, the female killer takes a different more subtle approach. Female serial killers follow different trends compared to the vast majority of male serial killers. The difference between male and female serial killers is that Men tend to kill and stalk victims (strangers), and women tend not to. Women