THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SERIAL KILLER
There is no such thing as a profile serial killer. ... ” Behavioral scientists who study serial killers define them as someone who commits three or more murders with a “cooling off” period in between. ... ” Serial killers usually fall under a certain profile; the majority are white males, with at least average intelligence, and most are either psychotics or psychopaths. ... Most serial killers are not psychotics; they are psychopaths, which are social paths or antisocial people. ... Researchers are not certain what creates a serial killer, but some theories blame genetics, others blame a persons childhood. Some serial killers are precociously demented, fascinated by brutal violence at a very early age. ... ” In some cases, the abuse of children by their parents is barbaric, and it seems little wonder that anything but a fledgling serial killer would come from such horrible squalor. ... As researchers examine childhood abuse as a possible key to the serial killer’s behavior, we must remember that many children have suffered horrible abuse at the hands of their parents, but did not grow up to be lust murderers. ... Childhood abuse may not be the sole for serial killers, but it is an undeniable factor in many of their backgrounds. In the book Serial Killers, the author describes the cycles of violence as generational.