When detectives go to investigate the disappearances of those missing there is no link between the killer and the victim making it practically impossible solve these mysteries.
#WHAT MAKES A SERIAL KILLER IN THEIR BRAIN SERIAL#
This explains why serial killers are able to get away with the massacres for so incredibly long. From Godwins investigation he found that nearly ninety percent of victims were complete strangers to the killer and that only three percent were friends and one percent were that of family members (Fox 105). Grover Godwin who profiles serial killers collected data from one hundred and seven serial killers and their seven hundred and twenty eight victims from sources that came from the FBI, local police departments, newspaper reports, and from the Homicide Investigations and Tracking System (HITS) database in Washington State. Though serial killers only make up for one percent murderers nearly a dozen account for one hundred to two hundred murders annually (Fox 102). Due to these sexual desires and the need to fulfill their arousing fantasies it often drives these individual to murder those who are complete strangers. Unlike that of a normal homicide, serial killers are only driven by instinct and a desire to kill. A murderer has a vendetta, a nice specific personal thing against his victim" (Corin 188). "A psychokiller, I should make clear, is not a regular murderer. Normally homicides are committed due to disputes that range from family affairs, gang violence, financial difficulties, and disputes between lovers and between friends. What is left are two schools of thought, are serial killers born with predetermined genes that play an integral part in creating their homicidal tendencies or do psychokillers become murderous through their surroundings as children? Though it is important to understand how killers become such vicious individuals it is critical to understand what defines a serial killer and what makes them so incredibly different from other homicidal murderers.Ī large distinction that separates serial killers from other murderers are their motives to kill. Like many serial killers before him like Albert DeSalvo, Theodore Bundy, and David Berkowitz, psychologists, criminologists, and scientists searched to answer the question of why serial killers commit these mass killings and how they became such violent humans. This is the mind of Jeffrey Dahmer, he murdered not in anger, revenge, or financial enrichment but on impulse and desire.
Dismembering the remnants of the body he placed skin, blood, and bone into a fifty-gallon vat of acid dissolving what was left of the young man. Dead within a day, he mummified the head of his victim placing it in the freezer beside the skulls of those who came before. “I’ve lived to be ripe old age so far.Drilling into the skull of a young man he began to funnel a stream of sulfuric acid into the head of his unconscious victim to create a zombie to fulfill all of his fantasies. “I’ve known him since he was twelve,” she said. Fallon’s wife, Diane, is the first to vouch for her husband’s lack of real life serial killer-ness. Well, luckily (for Fallon’s friends and loved ones) this is most definitely not a movie. Now if this actually were a thriller, this is where Fallon would realize he couldn’t deny his nature and follow in the footsteps of his ancestors, wreaking havoc on a small, sleepy New England town. What’s more, a scan of his genes revealed that Fallon has an aggressive form of a gene known as the “warrior gene.” Fallon himself admits that the evidence indicates he’s “a born killer.” (Now I don’t know what your family is like, but eight’s a lot!)Īnd after doing the scan, Fallon discovered that the region of his brain that is believed to play a factor in “ethical behavior, moral decision-making and impulse control”–the orbital cortex–had very little activity. Just how many murderers is Fallon related to? Eight alleged killers in all, including the infamous Lizzy Borden, who was accused of killing her father and stepmother in 1882. He’d been studying serial killers’ minds for years but it wasn’t until a conversation with his mother revealed that Fallon had a heap of murderous ancestors in his family tree that he decided to scan his own brain. No it’s not the leaked plot of an upcoming thriller it’s what actually happened to Dr. He then discovers, da da da dun-that his brain exactly matches that of a psychopath. After learning that several of his ancestors were murderers, the scientist decides to scan his own brain.
Get this: A scientist in California spends almost two decades studying the brains of serial killers, looking for biological clues of what makes a murderer.
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