Serial Killers by Iris Pierce Subject Selection Personal

Serial Killers by: Iris Pierce

Subject Selection Personal Influence Media Influence • Violent Offenders • Books • Always Question • Movies • Solving Puzzles • Television • News

Research Process Starting Out Extension Summer Research

Abstracts Male Serial Homicide: The Influence of Cultural and Structural Variables • Common conventional focus • Focus is deficient • Culture and Social structure • Multi-factor approach in testing • Hypothesis confirmed

Abstracts Becoming the Victim: Beyond sadism in serial sexual murderers • Behaviors and characteristics of killers • Sexually sadistic offenders • Masochism and Sadism • Demonstrate using two cases • Cases present a special grandiose model of sadism

Abstracts The organized/disorganized typology of serial killers: Myth or Model? • Explores current methods • The middle category • Lacks clear framework • Not psychologically genuine • Authors not opposed to typology

Journal Review The Journal of Behavioral Science and Law • Comprehensive and current information • Specified topics • Special issue • Maintains diversity • High quality publications

Research Paper

Types of Serial Killers Organized Disorganized Medical Murderers

Types of Serial Killers Organized • Above average intelligence • Plan their crimes • Personal and Social skills • Leave a clean crime scene

Types of Serial Killers Disorganized • Below average intelligence • Impulsive • Leaving physical evidence • Often suffer from mental illness

Types of Serial Killers Medical Murderers • Work in the medical field • Targets • Dr. Harold Shipman • Intentions

Serial Killer Motives Visionary Mission Oriented Hedonistic Power/Control

Serial Killer Motives Visionary • Breakdown in reality • Compelled to Murder • Unable to stop • Disorganized

Serial Killer Motives Mission Oriented • Murder to achieve goals • Organized • After achieving their missions • Contributing to change

Serial Killer Motives Hedonistic • Fun and Enjoyment • Takes pleasure in killing • No emotional connection • Lust

Serial Killer Motives Power/Control • People in society • Abuse during childhood • Sense of power • Assertion of power • Victims

Serial Killers 10 of Americas most notorious serial killers • Gary Ridgway (Green • Jeffrey Dahmer River Killer) • Ted Bundy • Charles Manson • Dennis Rader (BTK) • David Berkowitz (Son of Sam) • John Wayne Gacy • Boston Strangler • Zodiac Killer • Richard Ramirez (Night Stalker)