James “Whitey” Bulger could just be considered another troubled soul caught up in the wrong things, but he is one of America's most notorious and ruthless mob bosses. Hailing from South Boston, Whitey entered a lifetime of crime a young age and had become a prominent figure in Boston's organized crime scene by the late 1970s. From 1975 to 1990, he served as an informant, tipping off the police and giving information about the Patriarca Crime Family while building his own crime network. After fleeing Boston in 1995, Bulger landed on the "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list and lead the FBI on a sixteen year manhunt. James Joseph Bulger Jr. was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts on September 3, 1929 - a month before the stock market crash.…
Once he started his job as a construction worker this is where the serial murders started. He had forced three teenage girls to go behind a church and molested two of the three girls, then believed to have committed his first murder a month after. After that, he committed many robberies, sexual assaults, and eight more murders during the course of 11 months. Family and friends stated that they arrested the wrong man for the crimes and maintaining his innocence though there is evidence saying otherwise with eye-witnesses and shell casings from a gun they found in his…
Cannibal Tours is a film directed by Dennis O’Rourke that follows a group of Western tourists on their vacation in Papua New Guinea. The film represents the contrasting differences between the tourists, who live a modern life, and the locals who appear to live a primitive life. As a result of their differences, Cannibal Tours allowed me to truly comprehend the “The West and the Rest” discourse that shapes cultural encounters in todays world. The tourists in the documentary are a group of Europeans and North Americans and it is evident in the way they dress and their cameras, that they are wealthy.…
Who is the offender? Steven Avery ,born July 9, 1962, a man from Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, who was convicted of sexual assault and attempted murder in 1985. After serving nearly 18 years of a 32-year sentence, he was exonerated by DNA testing and released with help of the Innocence Project, only to be charged with murder two years later for the life of Teresa Halbach(Demos, & Ricciardi, 2015). Netflix documentary Making A Murderer was filmed in order to help tell his story. Early life and adulthood Avery’s family owned a salvage, junk, yard, in the town of Two Rivers, Wisconsin.…
On February fifteen nineteen ninety two, they returned after ten hours deliberation to find him guilty, but sane, on all chargers. He was sentenced to fifteen consecutive life years in prison, with a sixteenth year path on in May. Jeffrey Dahmer manage to adjusted to prison life very well, on November twenty eighth nineteen ninety four, in agreement with his inclusion in regular duties said that Dahmer was assigned to duties with two other inmates that also convicted murders. Once the inmates were left alone, Dahmer’s inmate brutally beat him to death as well as the other inmate but got away with just injures. Following his death, the city of Milwaukee was devoted to distance itself from the horrors of Dahmer’s actions and…
Jeffrey invited Steven Hicks, a 19-year-old boy to his father’s house. They began to drank alcohol and then later had sex. When Steven was getting ready to leave, Jeffrey hit Steven’s head with a barbell and killed him. After Dahmer killed him, he dismembered the body and put different parts of Steven in garbage bags and buried the bags in his backyard of his father’s home. Many years later, he dug up the bags, crushed the bones, and threw them around the woods (Baumann,1991).…
Jeffrey Dahmer, the infamous serial killer, was born on May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, although he grew up in Ohio. His childhood was not anything too out of the ordinary, except for a few incidents; one of which was him being molested at the age of eight. Dahmer grew up in a house with his father, mother and his brother, Lionel Dahmer, Joyce Dahmer and David Dahmer, listed accordingly. When he turned ten, Dahmer was supposedly experimenting with dead animals, although his parents just took it as something that boys do. If they had noticed something was wrong at this time in his life and had gotten him the help that he needed, he might not have committed all of those murders.…
Sure he had been convicted a couple times in his past with charges or public exploitation, and yeah, a couple kids claim he had exposed himself in front of them, but he gave nobody a reason to believe him a killer. Well, killing was his skill. So how did he get caught? Tracy Edwards escaped from Dahmer and was found wandering the streets with handcuffs on him, nearby cops spotted him and asked him what happened, Tracy claimed he was drugged him and captured by a man and led the cops to Dahmer’s apartment. When Dahmer opened the door and offered to get the key to release Tracy, the cops noticed multiple polaroids of what appear to be body parts and when Jeffrey returned he was arrested.…
In Inside a Murdering Mind by Anne E. Schwartz, Schwartz tells the story of a man named Jeffery Dahmer. Jeffery Dahmer was a seemingly normal man who live in Milwaukee, however, as the story goes, Dahmer was far from normal. In reality, he was a serial killer who would kill for the purpose of having sex with the corpse of his victims then he would occasionally, eat their flesh. In this critical essay, Anne E, Schwartz discusses a handful of possible reason for Jeffery Dahmer’s awful crimes and how we as society see these actions. Schwartz begins with mentioning that in the Jeffery Dahmer case, and many other cases in the past, society sought a scapegoat.…
William Bonin, also known as “The Freeway Killer”, is classified as a serial killer. One way to describe him as a serial killer is as a homosexual rapist. Bonin was a resident of the state of California, and has raped and murdered 14 teenagers. He committed his 1st rape crime in 1972 and went on until 1980, the year he was arrested. He was sentenced to death and died of lethal injection in 1996.…
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, more infamously known as the “Milwaukee Cannibal”, is considered one of the America’s most notorious lust serial killers. Dahmer spent over a decade terrorizing the city of Milwaukee with his horrendous killings. Because of the torturous manner in which he committed his murders, Dahmer landed himself a spot at the highest level on Dr. Michael Stone’s Gradations of Evil Scale ("On The Scale of Evil, Where do Murderers Rate?", n.d.). He not only murdered 17 men, but also engaged in necrophilia, cannibalism, and zombieism after drugging, molesting, and strangling the men to death (“Jeffrey Dahmer Biography”, n.d.). Though the crux of his killings occurred during the 1980s, Dahmer claims that his urges to kill and fantasies…
Dahmer was a mixture since he exhibited numerous characteristics of both types of killers including but not limited to, was intelligent, did not spend time stalking his victims, planned his murders, and did not suffer from sexual problems aside from homosexuality. He practiced pedophilia, necrophilia and cannibalism. According to Crime Museum, (2015) Dahmer started becoming obsessed with dead animal and suffered from alcoholism at a young age. He had been discharged from several institutions including the military due to his alcoholism (Crime Museum 2015). Dahmer 's first victim, a hitchhiker, was in 1978.…
Hello Everyone! When someone commits any kind of murder and especially if this said person has done this crime more than once, we as a society tends to want to know why this has occurred? What has caused this person to commit these crimes repeatedly? In the case of Jeffrey Dahmer I think it is a variety of reasons.…
Elizabeth Williams Ms. Blair English 4 2 April 2015 What causes serial killers to become what they are: Nature or nurture? There are many speculations of what makes a person do and be the things they are but it is not only nature or nurture it’s a combination of both. For a long time people have wondered what makes people act the way they do. People especially wonder about the people of the outcast of the society, the killers. People are fascinated of how these people can do the things they do.…
Jeffery Dahmer On a sad day in May of 1960 Jeffery Dahmer was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin. He was one of America’s most infamous serial killers. Other names attributed to him was the Milwaukee cannibal because he ate the flesh of his victims. At an early age, he began killing animals and put a severed head of a dog on a stake in his yard and a cemetery where he buried them.…