criminalprofiler:

Serial Killers and their sexual deviations

In the FBI’s study of serial killers, the Criminal Personality Research Project, each of the following categories describes a type of sexual behaviour engaged in by one or more of the serial killers: 

1. Animal Torture: stabbing or chopping animals to death (especially cats for some reason) and dissecting them.

2. Anthropophagy: Eating the victim’s flesh or slicing off parts of flesh from the body.

3. Autoeroticism: Sexual arousal and gratification through self-stimulation (masturbating to pornography or violent fantasies, asphyxia, while cross-dressing, etc.)

4. Coprophilia: An interest in feces whereby the offender may receive some sexual gratification from touching or eating excretement and/or urine (urophilia). Although rare among serial killers, at least one of the killers in the study was known to have eaten his own excretement.

5. Exhibitionism: Exposing one’s genitals to an unsuspecting stranger.

6. Fetishisms: Finding sexual gratification by substituting objects for the sexual partner.

7. Gerontophilia: Seeking out elderly persons of the opposite sex for sexual purposes.

8. Klismaphilia: Sexual arousal through the administration of enemas.

9. Infibulation: Self-torture, for example piercing one’s own nipples, scrotum, labia with sharp objects such as needles and pins.

10. Lust Murder: Murdering sadistically and brutally, including the mutilation of body parts, especially the genitalia.

11. Necrophilia: Having sexual relations (or fantasies about sex) with dead bodies. A subcategory is necrofetishism, which is having a fetish for dead bodies, and these offenders may keep corpses in their home.

12. Pedophilia: Having sexual relations with children (generally child refers to a pre-pubescent individual)

13. Pederasty: Adults have anal intercourse with children. This is a common act among serial killers who target children.

14. Pyromania: Intentional setting of fires. Although some pyromaniacs report sexual gratification in setting or watching fire scenes, the role of sexuality in fire-setting does not appear as the primary reason for such behaviour.

15. Rape: Having forced sexual intercourse with another person.

16. Sadomasochism: Inflicting mental/physical pain on others (sadism) or oneself (masochism).

17. Scatolophilia or Telephone Scatologia: Sexual gratification through the making of obscene phone calls.

18. Scoptophilia or Voyeurism: Receiving sexual gratification by peeping through windows and so forth to watch people.

19. Torture: Resorting to a large variety of sadistic acts.

In 2010 Radford University released disturbing statistics…

Worldwide serial killers: 28

American serial killers: 16

Worldwide men serial killers: 25

Worldwide women serial killers: 3

52% of American serial killers are Caucasian. Over 50% of all American killers kill for lust and…

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criminalprofiler:

Serial Killers and their sexual deviations

In the FBI’s study of serial killers, the Criminal Personality Research Project, each of the following categories describes a type of sexual behaviour engaged in by one or more of the serial killers: 

1. Animal Torture: stabbing or chopping animals to death (especially cats for some reason) and dissecting them.

2. Anthropophagy: Eating the victim’s flesh or slicing off parts of flesh from the body.

3. Autoeroticism: Sexual arousal and gratification through self-stimulation (masturbating to pornography or violent fantasies, asphyxia, while cross-dressing, etc.)

4. Coprophilia: An interest in feces whereby the offender may receive some sexual gratification from touching or eating excretement and/or urine (urophilia). Although rare among serial killers, at least one of the killers in the study was known to have eaten his own excretement.

5. Exhibitionism: Exposing one’s genitals to an unsuspecting stranger.

6. Fetishisms: Finding sexual gratification by substituting objects for the sexual partner.

7. Gerontophilia: Seeking out elderly persons of the opposite sex for sexual purposes.

8. Klismaphilia: Sexual arousal through the administration of enemas.

9. Infibulation: Self-torture, for example piercing one’s own nipples, scrotum, labia with sharp objects such as needles and pins.

10. Lust Murder: Murdering sadistically and brutally, including the mutilation of body parts, especially the genitalia.

11. Necrophilia: Having sexual relations (or fantasies about sex) with dead bodies. A subcategory is necrofetishism, which is having a fetish for dead bodies, and these offenders may keep corpses in their home.

12. Pedophilia: Having sexual relations with children (generally child refers to a pre-pubescent individual)

13. Pederasty: Adults have anal intercourse with children. This is a common act among serial killers who target children.

14. Pyromania: Intentional setting of fires. Although some pyromaniacs report sexual gratification in setting or watching fire scenes, the role of sexuality in fire-setting does not appear as the primary reason for such behaviour.

15. Rape: Having forced sexual intercourse with another person.

16. Sadomasochism: Inflicting mental/physical pain on others (sadism) or oneself (masochism).

17. Scatolophilia or Telephone Scatologia: Sexual gratification through the making of obscene phone calls.

18. Scoptophilia or Voyeurism: Receiving sexual gratification by peeping through windows and so forth to watch people.

19. Torture: Resorting to a large variety of sadistic acts.

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ramirezdahmerbundy:

It was May 30, 1991, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A 14-year-old boy wandered the street. He was naked and bleeding. He had been drugged and seemed out of it. Two young women saw him and called 911. Jeffrey Dahmer, age 31, ran down the street after him. He tried to take the boy away but the women stopped him. Soon the police arrived, Dahmer told them the boy was 19 and he was his boyfriend, the police laughed. “We reunited the lovers,” they joked, and made other homophobic comments. They thought it was just a lovers’ fight so they let Jeffrey Dahmer take the drugged boy away with him.

Soon the boy was dead, he was Dahmer’s 12th victim. Dahmer kept the boy’s school.

Later police remembered a strange smell in Dahmer’s apartment. But they didn’t do anything about it, the smell was from the rotting body on Anthony Hughes, his corpse was in the bedroom but the police didn’t go in there.

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criminalprofiler:

Dr. Hervey Cleckley, psychiatrist, pioneer in the study of psychopaths

In Dr. Cleckley’s 1976 book, The Mask of Sanity, he identified 16 characteristics of psychopaths:

1. intelligent
2. rational
3. calm
4. unreliable
5. insincere
6. without shame or remorse
7. having poor judgment
8. without capacity for love
9. unemotional
10. poor insight
11. indifferent to the trust or kindness of others
12. overreactive to alcohol
13. suicidal
14. impersonal sex life
15. lacking long-term goals
16. inadequately motivated antisocial behavior

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Features of Psychopathy

• Superficial charm and good “intelligence”

More often than not, the typical psychopath will seem particularly agreeable and make a distinctly positive impression when he is first encountered. Alert and friendly in his attitude, he is easy to talk with and seems to have a good many genuine interests.

Very often indications of good sense and sound reasoning will emerge and one is likely to feel soon after meeting him that this normal and pleasant person is also one with high abilities.

• Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking

The so-called psychopath is ordinarily free from signs or symptoms traditionally regarded as evidence of a psychosis. He does not hear voices. Genuine delusions cannot be demonstrated.

There is no valid depression, consistent pathologic elevation of mood, or irresistible pressure of activity. Not only is the psychopath rational and his thinking free of delusions, but he also appears to react with normal emotions.

• Absence of “nervousness” or psychoneurotic manifestations

There are usually no symptoms to suggest a psychoneurosis in the clinical sense. In fact, the psychopath is nearly always free from minor reactions popularly regarded as “neurotic” or as constituting “nervousness.”

The chief criteria whereby such diagnoses as hysteria, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety state, or “neurasthenia” might be made do not apply to him. Even under concrete circumstances that would for the ordinary person cause embarrassment, confusion, acute insecurity, or visible agitation, his relative serenity is likely to be noteworthy.

• Unreliability

Though the psychopath is likely to give an early impression of being a thoroughly reliable person, it will soon be found that on many occasions he shows no sense of responsibility whatsoever.

No matter how binding the obligation, how urgent the circumstances, or how important the matter, this holds true. Furthermore, the question of whether or not he is to be confronted with his failure or his disloyalty and called to account for it appears to have little effect on his attitude.

• Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior

Not only is the psychopath undependable, but also in more active ways he cheats, deserts, annoys, brawls, fails, and lies without any apparent compunction. He will commit theft, forgery, adultery, fraud, and other deeds for astonishingly small stakes and under much greater risks of being discovered than will the ordinary scoundrel. He will, in fact, commit such deeds in the absence of any apparent goal at all.

• Lack of remorse or shame

The psychopath apparently cannot accept substantial blame for the various misfortunes which befall him and which he brings down upon others, usually he denies emphatically all responsibility and directly accuses others as responsible, but often he will go through an idle ritual of saying that much of his trouble is his own fault.

Although his behavior shows reactions of this sort to be perfunctory, this is seldom apparent in his manner. This is exceedingly deceptive and is very likely to promote confidence and deep trust. More detailed questioning about just what he blames himself for and why may show that a serious attitude is not only absent but altogether inconceivable to him.

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ramirezdahmerbundy:

Female Killers

Nearly one out of five serial murderers are women. In fact, they are often more deadly and more prolific than typical male serial killers. Female serial killers are described as the “quiet killers” because they rarely leave bodies dumped by the roadside, which alarm a community. Their killing careers last twice as long as men’s: eight years for women to the male serial killer’s average of just over four years. Their killing is often committed at home of in a professional setting such as a hospital, retirement home, boardinghouse, or hotel, where sometimes it is not even notices or recognised as a murder. A study of incarcerated female non-serial murderers found out that on average 77 percent were unemployed when they committed their offends, 65 percent were black, and 76 percent had children, and their median age was twenty-seven. Female killers are young and poor, and often function in a socioeconomic class where interpersonal violence is more frequent and “acceptable.”

The statistics for specifically female serial killers are substantially different: 95 percent were white, their median age was thirty and only 10 percent were known to be unemployed, while 10 percent were skilled workers, 15 percent were semiskilled, and 11 percent were other, such as self-employed or business proprietors (and 42 percent unknown). Poor unemployed women living in a society where often responding with interpersonal violence is the only way to survive may commit a spontaneous homicide in the heat of a moment. But the more middle-class female serial killers contemplated and planned their murders carefully.

The motives of female serial killers are substantially different from those of the female single killer or even the male serial killer. On average, 74 percent of female serial killers were at least in part motivated by personal financial gain, a sad reflection on their middle-class aspirations.

ramirezdahmerbundy:

Female Serial Killers

Although males make up the majority of serial killers, there are female serial killers as well and they differ from men in many ways. Research shows that the majority of males (50%) kill for sexual pleasure while females kill for profit (75%), control (13%), or revenge (12%). Men tend to be more actively violent in their killing, raping, torturing, beating or stangling their victims while females are usually passive and tend to favour poison. The victimologies differ as well; men tend to chose strangers while women target relatives, friends, and romantic partners. One of the most suprising differences is the length of time over which each gender continues killing. Men usually kill for a short period, a few months to about 4 years. Women, on the other hand, kill for an average of 6-8 years, sometimes even decades.

There are six typologies that female serial killers fall into:

1. Black Widow: Most of their victims are relatives, romantic relationships, or close friends. Black widows kill for monetary gain, most often life insurance. These women often kill 6-8 people over a period of ten to fifteen years and their preferred method is poison.

   Example: Lydia Trueblood killed five husbands, her brother in-law, and her baby daughter.

2. Angel of Death: These women are workers in hospitals or senior homes where death is not uncommon. They are exhilirated by their power over life and death and often bring their patients to the brink of death before miraculously curing them, though most victims are eventually killed. These women often suffer from Munchausen’s by proxy syndrome or a God complex. This type of killer usually claims 8-12 victims over a 1-2 year period. They kill slowly with drugs or poison that mirror the effects of disease and sickness.

   Example: Genene Jones killed between 11 and 46 terminlly ill infants by injecting them with digoxin and pretending to try to save them. Jones continued to kill even while under investigation.

3. Sexual Predator: The rarest of female serial killers; only one known North American case. These women are usually in their 30’s and and geographically mobile. They are driven by sexual fantasies of killing and kill on average 6 people in a 3 year period.

   Example: Aileen Carol Wuornos worked as a prostitute and killed 7 male clients. She would claim that they tried to rape her and would shoot or stab them during sex.

4. Revenge Killer: Also rare, and generally only found among repeat offenders. These women kill family members or friends that they beleive offended them. Revenge killers usually kill 3-4 victims over a two year period and tend to show remorse after the act.

   Example: Martha Wise killed family members and a pastor and also burnt down a church because she viewed them as barriers that kept her from marrying the man she loved. She later claimed that the devil made her do it.

5. Team Killers: These women often do not kill on their own but are coerced into doing so by a partner. Teams are most often male-female, however the partner may also be a sister or close female friend. 35% of female serial killers fall into this category. Killings are often sexual in nature and there are usually 9-15 victims in a two-year period.

   Example: Charlene and Gerald Gallego raped, tortured and buried alive over 20 girls. Charlene helped Gerald because he claimed that taking virgins would cure his impotency.

6. Profit Killers: Essentially hit women, these women tend to be the most intelligent of the female serial killers are very dispassionate.

   Example: Madame Popova was a Russian hit woman that hired herself out to women who had cruel and abusive husbands. She killed more than 300 men.

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