SERIAL KILLERS Celadon Ramsey SERIAL KILLER CHILDHOOD Intelligent

SERIAL KILLERS Celadon Ramsey

SERIAL KILLER CHILDHOOD • Intelligent • 1 st or 2 nd child in the family • Issues within family • Family history with addiction • Abused growing up (Ressler, R. K. , & Burguess, A. W. , 1985, p. 2) (Guy, 2015)

CLASSIFYING A SERIAL KILLER BY CRIME SCENES • Disorganized • Organized (Taylor, Lambeth, Green, Bone, & Cahillane, 2012, p. 31 -33)

ORGANIZED • Serial killers who plan every detail, leave little or even no clues for investigators, are considered organized killers. • Killer: intelligent, social, capable of maintaining a relationship Example: Dennis Rader (BTK) He stalked and planned the way his victims were killed. (Biography. com Editors, n. d) (Taylor, Lambeth, Green, Bone, & Cahillane, 2012, p. 31 -33) (Biography. com Editors, n. d) (Ressler, R. K. , & Burguess, A. W. , 1985, p. 33)

DISORGANIZED • Disorganized killers are ones that did not plan the killing. The killers do not have a certain type of victim. The crime scenes are full of evidence. • Killer: unable to keep a relationship, low IQ, lonely, low skilled job Example: Ottis Toole killed random people and went on a killing spree, he did not plan his victim's death or type of victim. (Biography. com Editors, n. d. ) (Messori, 2016, p. 14) (Taylor, Lambeth, Green, Bone, & Cahillane, 2012, p. 31 -33) (Biography. com Editors, n. d) (Ressler, R. K. , & Burguess, A. W. , 1985, p. 33)

MOTIVES FOR A SERIAL KILLER • Visionary • Mission-oriented • Hedonistic • Control (Messori, 2016, p. 17)

VISIONARY • Examples of visionary killers are stated in Frequencies Between Serial Killer Typology and Theorized Etiological Factors. • Voices command them to kill. • Murder Scene: disorganized • Victims are chosen randomly. (Messori, 2016, p. 17) (Ressler, R. K. , & Burguess, A. W. , 1985, p. 33) Taylor, Lambeth, Green, Bone, & Cahillane, 2012, p. 31 -33)

MISSION-ORIENTED • The FBI and author of Frequencies Between Serial Killer Typology and Theorized Etiological Factors describes mission oriented killers. • Killers with a goal have excuses for killing a person or group of people. • Murder Scene: organized • Killer’s victims are not specific, but the group is. (Messori, 2016, p. 18) (Ressler, R. K. , & Burguess, A. W. , 1985, p. 33) (Taylor, Lambeth, Green, Bone, & Cahillane, 2012, p. 31 -33)

CONTROL • Having the ability and power to decide how the victim will die/live/tortured are motives for a controlled killer. • Victim is chosen specifically • Murder scene: organized (Taylor, Lambeth, Green, Bone, & Cahillane, 2012, p. 33) (Messori, 2016, p. 20) ( (Ressler, R. K. , & Burguess, A. W. , 1985, p. 33

HEDONISTIC • A hedonistic killer can fall under lust, thrill, or comfort. • • • A lust killer will have intercourse with the dead body or eat the body. Thrill killers enjoy the entire act of killing A comfort killer kills to be financially stable. Murder Scene: organized or disorganized Victim: Specific or Unspecific (Messori, 2016, p. 19) (Ressler, R. K. , & Burguess, A. W. , 1985, p. 33) (Taylor, Lambeth, Green, Bone, & Cahillane, 2012, p. 31 -33)

Overview There is not a specific look or attitude for a serial killer. A serial killer can be any age, gender, or race. Only the actions define if it is a serial killer and the type.