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    emotional control. A tiny plastic toy with reddish-orange hair, stitches, staples, and scars covering his face with his left eye popping out of his head, wearing torn and dirty denim bibs. The doll’s personality and spirit originate from a violent serial killer. When he is killed, his spirit is transferred to the body of a doll to seek revenge for his death. A, horrific looking, terrifying

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    Dangerous sex crimes usually involve necrophilia, sexual sadists and other sexual motivated crimes. Some of the most heinous sex crimes have marked history and are still discussed today. Serial killers like Jeffery Dahmer, who not only sexually abused his victims, but also was a cannibal and would digest body parts of his victims. Sexual fantasies that generally have a darker side is where dangerous sex crimes generate from in my opinion and progressively get worse from there. In particularly, the

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    Serial Killer Diary

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    “Check it. It’s the diary from that serial killer. Maybe we can find his motives for all those murders that keep happening,” the investigator noted. He flipped through the pages of the journal and glanced at the last page. It was half written and there was a bloody handprint that smeared down near the bottom. “Read it. We got nothin’ better to do,” his partner replied hastily. “July 8, 2021. Beautiful day out here. We have had this pretty cool president for a few months. Overall life is good. My

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    Serial Killers Serials killers can be defined in different ways, depending on who you ask. If you ask me, I think a serial killer is someone who has killed more than a couple people. If you ask someone else more than likely you will get a different definition. But what really is the definition of a serial killer? According to Zoe McKnight “Serial murders usually refer to two or more murders at different places and times with a cooling-off period in between, rather than several unrelated murders

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    term serial killers has never really been defined until roughly 1998 when congress passes a Children Protection act from Sexual Predator Act of 1998. This Act defined serial killers as a series of at least three or more killings.However because of the definition of serial killers, they often get confused between serial killers and a spree murder. The Difference is that spree murderers often get killed or seriously killed, however spree murderers have also killed themselves. Although serial killers

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    A Closer Look at Serial Killers Jessica Simpson Writing in Criminal Justice: Dr. Crank Appalachian State University   A Closer Look at Serial Killers What comes to mind when you hear the words “Homicide in American”? For most in society, an image of a bloody crime scene or a smoking gun comes to mind. However, there is a form of homicide that, due to its individuality, society has put it into a category of its very own; this is known as serial murder. Serial murder is the rarest form of homicide

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    The term ‘serial killings’ means a series of three or more killings, not less than one of which was committed within the United States, having common characteristics such as to suggest the reasonable possibility that the crimes were committed by the same actor or actors. Serial Killers often have peculiar personality traits that go unnoticed. Serial killers can be classified by their organizational and social skills. They can be organized or disorganized and nonsocial or asocial (Http://www.howstuffworks

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    A serial killer is a person that kills more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval (Dictionary, 2015). The statistics taken on September 6, 2014 confirms that there is information on 3,873 serial killers and 11,187 victims of serial killers (Aamodt, M. G,2014). The act of serial killing is very rare but it is very critical and dangerous. There are common traits of potential serial killers. There are many reasons why they commit their act of killing. In a study don’t by Grover

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    of us know that a serial killer is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month (N/A, The Psychology of Serial Killers, 2014). But, what leads a person to such acts of violence? Why does one human decide to inflict pain or torture on the other? These are serious questions one must ask while studying the mind and actions of a serial killer. In many cases a serial killer’s motives are more psychological rather than material. Most killers don’t even know their

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    The first book which helped me start my research is called The Serial Killer Files by H. Schechter. The book is split into 6 chapters documenting the how, where, when, what and why of serial killers but the main section that interested me was why. Although this book was not incredibly relevant to my research as it was written mainly for entertainment purposes I have decided to include it because it was the first source to catch my attention and push me to pursue this question. While H.Schechter believes

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