Serial Killers 3

Dahmer was found guilty of his murders and was sentenced to death but an inmate got to him first.

Albert fish is one that not many people are familiar with in that his killings were back in 1928. His victims were usually between 8-15. His most horrendous crime was when he befriended a family and took their child who was a daughter he said on an outing. He stripped her, strangled her and ate her.   He then wrote a letter to the mother of the child and told her exactly what he had done FISH was a cannibalistic killer who liked to stick needles under his fingernails and groin. In his childhood he was abandoned and placed in an orphanage where he experienced and witnessed brutality. Perhaps this part of his personality broke off and the images or experiences that he endured went far deeper then anyone then could have known.

Charles Manson is among histories most known serial killers however he never physically murdered his victims.  He used power over those who followed him to do his bidding. He was born to a prostitute mother and spent half of his childhood years in and out of juvenile prisons for an array of criminal offenses from car theft and pimping.  Manson became obsessed with death and sex and in using his enticements of peace and love along with a wide variety of  drugs he was able to get those that followed him to do his bidding.

All of these individuals killed for the sake of killing. They felt the power and control in their own hands whereas they had none as children.

There are multitudes more and probably too numerous to name. 

Can so much pain and suffering change a seemingly ordinary and innocent child into a vicious killer?

Yes.

Isolation, taunted by their peers, loners, angry.  An anger that grows and can only be released by unleashing it’s wrath upon others. Perhaps they are reliving there torment in some way by some of these acts? Post traumatic stress order on many levels rearing it’s head.  People carry within themselves coping mechanisms however when breakdown occurs madness begins and with it leaves a trail of victims that can never be brought back or even salvaged.

You can kiss a scraped knee and put a band aid on it.

But how do you mend a tortured soul?