Serial Killers 2

Serial killers are not born; many have been psychologically, physically, emotionally, and sexually abused. Many come from varies households. They tend to emulate their torment by inflicting it upon others. Why is it that seemingly normal people then can grow up not to have the deviant behaviors of some of our more notorious serial killers?  I don’t believe we will ever know the answer to that question.

There are thee common characteristics that I have found through research and the study of such individuals that are found present in their childhoods.  These are known as the terrible triad.  There is no guarantee from what researches have found that if all three are found present then that child will for certain grow up to become a serial killer, however there are early warning signs that people should be made aware of.

The conditions are bed wetting, fire starting and animal torture.

Studies have shown that at least 60% of serial killers were wetting their bed past the age of 12.

Many were intrigued by arson or liked to start fires as children as well as small animal torture.

The main characteristics of a serial killer are  that they are generally a white male usually between the ages of 25 and 35 . Most are usually married with children and have jobs and their financial status can be of a higher or lower income bracket. They enjoy making their victims suffer and gain power from doing so. Serial killers usually pick out someone as their victim and many times go to a location many times before they feel comfortable enough to carry out their deed. The biggest and most common facet of a serial killer is that have had extensive histories of childhood abuse in all or many forms. Some have had a parent leave when they were younger which was usually the father and some again may have been raised by a tyrannical and abusive mother.  Most studies have shown that potential killers were lonely and this loneliness impacted there character most during the ages between 8 and 12.  These isolation periods are said to be a very important and seemingly similar characteristic of these individuals.  Some of these killers are not always shy but can also be quite outgoing.

You will always find individuals that suffered all or most of these abuses and did not seem to have that compulsion to kill or torture other human beings. You have to wonder why is it that so many can go on and not do these terrible things yet the circuit didn’t connect in others and they became man made monsters of society.

In my deep research on this topic I did find something that was very interesting. Most suffered some kind of traumatic head injury. This is something that you don’t see in too many profiles of these individuals.  To name a few Arthur shawcross, Jeffrey Dahmer and the notoriously well known Ted Bundy.  Is it coincidence?

I believe one crucial thing was also missing. The human soul.

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Could it be that these individuals could not fathom or comprehend the abuses that were inflicted upon them.

We hear of them, we know there stories, we have read of their horrendous crimes but ultimately we must take some responsibility for that small child.  That innocent child who awoke to bruises and went to bed with nightmares.

Has Society become comatose to violence.

Will the abuses stop?

Can the abuses stop?

How sad with all that we have we are missing compassion.