Serial Killer Superstition

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Female Serial Killer’s mental state , behaviors and victims are unique and often different from that of male serial killers. You will read about the Upbringings , victims and methods . Upbringings will be focused on how female serial killers were raise and how that's different from a male serial killers family upbringing . For the victims its will be focused on who the victims are , how are they related to the murder , like were they related to the Serial killer or were they mudder just because . Methods will focus on what they used a and how they murder their victims , also the different between how female attend to and how males attend to kill .
Female upbringing most female serial killer have psychopathic traits ,Some traits

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