1. Indroduction
People are all different, that should not come as a surprise for anyone. Our individual DNA sets us apart from everyone else and makes us who we are. But at the same time we are all the same we are all human, our social, physical and emotional needs are basically the same as the next persons. But in some occasions something makes a one human being so different it makes that person do things an average person could not fathom why or for what. Serial killers are set apart from ‘normal’ people by their cruelty and lack of emotional stability.This unstability can be tied to lack of stability at home, and when a person has a though childhood (s)he might turn her/his life on the wrong tracks which might lead to unimaginable cruelty. Are serial killers mixture of nature and nuture? 2. Definition of a serial killer In the United States crime rate is quite high, therefore murder rate is high also. In 2013 there was 14,196 murders, out of these murders approximately 1 percent was committed by serial killer . So it is quite fair to say serial murders and serial killers are, thankfully, quite rare even in such high crime rate country as the US. Whenever people try to define something or divide things they set up requirements that define certain groups. When trying to define the word serial killer, people have come up with different definitions and criteriums, most common definition of serial killer is: ‘’ Serial killer is a term describing a type of killer who kills a number of people over a long period of time. … killing of several victims in three or more separate events.’’ . Based on these criteriums writer searched some of the most known serial killers, all of them are from the United States, except for one Countess Elizabeth Bathory de Ecsed who was an Hungarian. Although most of the serial killers in this essay are from the US, serial killers can be found around the world. But as logic tells us: where there is bigger population, there is more any kind of abnormalities. One question that is almost always raised is whether a person is born bad or has (s)he gone through some struggles that make behave in a way that is not socially accepted. Serial killer’s personality is a combination of nature and nurture meaning that some of them have born with some psychological difficulties and when added a bad family and social environment we might be raising a serial killer. One of the most common traits of serial killers is childhood abuse, whether sexual or mental, this can lead to hatred towards one specific group of people, for example in the case of Aileen Wuornos she was abused by her grandfather’s friend. Second trait could be lack of friends, which means they are shunned by their peers, which will lead to the lack of social skills to befriend someone or feel …show more content…
For this reason Bundy’s grandparents raised him until his mother married and her husband adopted him. But the fact that Bundy raised up thinking his real mother was his sister made him angry towards his mother. Adding to the complicated family life Bundy had he was always more of a loner and had difficulty finding friends. Ted Bundy also showed unusual and unhealthy interest in extreme violence and dead animals, which is also a common trait of serial killers .
Ted Bundy attended college, where he met his first girlfriend Stephanie Brooks. Relationship with his girlfriend in college may be one of the reasons Bundy started to resent women. In addition to his mother lying to him about his origins, Bundy’s girlfriend broke up with him, allegedly saying that Bundy would be a failure in life since he dropped out of college, this was in 1968 . After breaking up with his first girlfriend Bundy begun to travel around the States and enrolled himself in university again.
Ted Bundy was very precise and careful with the murder scenes. He almost never left any evidence or other information who was the killer (this was of course before discovery of DNA analysis). He almost never killed in just one place, he had rather big range of places where he killed his
People are all different, that should not come as a surprise for anyone. Our individual DNA sets us apart from everyone else and makes us who we are. But at the same time we are all the same we are all human, our social, physical and emotional needs are basically the same as the next persons. But in some occasions something makes a one human being so different it makes that person do things an average person could not fathom why or for what. Serial killers are set apart from ‘normal’ people by their cruelty and lack of emotional stability.This unstability can be tied to lack of stability at home, and when a person has a though childhood (s)he might turn her/his life on the wrong tracks which might lead to unimaginable cruelty. Are serial killers mixture of nature and nuture? 2. Definition of a serial killer In the United States crime rate is quite high, therefore murder rate is high also. In 2013 there was 14,196 murders, out of these murders approximately 1 percent was committed by serial killer . So it is quite fair to say serial murders and serial killers are, thankfully, quite rare even in such high crime rate country as the US. Whenever people try to define something or divide things they set up requirements that define certain groups. When trying to define the word serial killer, people have come up with different definitions and criteriums, most common definition of serial killer is: ‘’ Serial killer is a term describing a type of killer who kills a number of people over a long period of time. … killing of several victims in three or more separate events.’’ . Based on these criteriums writer searched some of the most known serial killers, all of them are from the United States, except for one Countess Elizabeth Bathory de Ecsed who was an Hungarian. Although most of the serial killers in this essay are from the US, serial killers can be found around the world. But as logic tells us: where there is bigger population, there is more any kind of abnormalities. One question that is almost always raised is whether a person is born bad or has (s)he gone through some struggles that make behave in a way that is not socially accepted. Serial killer’s personality is a combination of nature and nurture meaning that some of them have born with some psychological difficulties and when added a bad family and social environment we might be raising a serial killer. One of the most common traits of serial killers is childhood abuse, whether sexual or mental, this can lead to hatred towards one specific group of people, for example in the case of Aileen Wuornos she was abused by her grandfather’s friend. Second trait could be lack of friends, which means they are shunned by their peers, which will lead to the lack of social skills to befriend someone or feel …show more content…
For this reason Bundy’s grandparents raised him until his mother married and her husband adopted him. But the fact that Bundy raised up thinking his real mother was his sister made him angry towards his mother. Adding to the complicated family life Bundy had he was always more of a loner and had difficulty finding friends. Ted Bundy also showed unusual and unhealthy interest in extreme violence and dead animals, which is also a common trait of serial killers .
Ted Bundy attended college, where he met his first girlfriend Stephanie Brooks. Relationship with his girlfriend in college may be one of the reasons Bundy started to resent women. In addition to his mother lying to him about his origins, Bundy’s girlfriend broke up with him, allegedly saying that Bundy would be a failure in life since he dropped out of college, this was in 1968 . After breaking up with his first girlfriend Bundy begun to travel around the States and enrolled himself in university again.
Ted Bundy was very precise and careful with the murder scenes. He almost never left any evidence or other information who was the killer (this was of course before discovery of DNA analysis). He almost never killed in just one place, he had rather big range of places where he killed his