The Serial Killer - Part XXXVIII
Serial killers are very intelligent individuals, generally speaking. Their intelligence is revealed not only through their intelectual abilities, but mainly it concerns the skills they show in preparing their crimes, manipulating those around them and in their ability to use decoys to hide their criminal activities.
Frequentely they kill the same type of victims and they can travel hundreds of miles to select and hunt their prey.
The crime is considered a ritual by the murderer. Usually serial rapists fear sex and are only able to practice it by reducing their victims to full impotence, unconscious or even dead. Henry Lee Lucas, someone we will be talking about later on, executed his victims so that he could use their different body parts to satisfy his sexual needs.
The serial killer does not consider his victim as human but as an object, a carcass, members destined to awake his desire. What matters is not the identity of the corpse but what it signifies.
Frequentely they kill the same type of victims and they can travel hundreds of miles to select and hunt their prey.
The crime is considered a ritual by the murderer. Usually serial rapists fear sex and are only able to practice it by reducing their victims to full impotence, unconscious or even dead. Henry Lee Lucas, someone we will be talking about later on, executed his victims so that he could use their different body parts to satisfy his sexual needs.
The serial killer does not consider his victim as human but as an object, a carcass, members destined to awake his desire. What matters is not the identity of the corpse but what it signifies.
The FBI conducted a series of interviews since 1979 to 36 serial killers and sexual murderers. The results were published in 1983 and do not necessarily aply to all serial killers, but they give is a serious average of what might be happening in general.
Most of the individuals questioned are the oldest son in their family, 15% being an only child and 12% adopted. The majority was raised in the 40s and 50s and some in the 60s, which gives them an advantage in a society and an age dominated by males. Almost none had any physical disability and their appearance was agreeable. In 29% of the cases their IQ is medium, in 36% of the cases having a high IQ and in 15% of the cases a very high IQ. Two thirds started their lives in traditional families, having both a mother and a father. In two halves of the cases the mother stayed home to take care of them and in 75% of the cases the father had a stable professional occupation. 80% of them belong to the middle class and only 14% come from poor families.
Most of the individuals questioned are the oldest son in their family, 15% being an only child and 12% adopted. The majority was raised in the 40s and 50s and some in the 60s, which gives them an advantage in a society and an age dominated by males. Almost none had any physical disability and their appearance was agreeable. In 29% of the cases their IQ is medium, in 36% of the cases having a high IQ and in 15% of the cases a very high IQ. Two thirds started their lives in traditional families, having both a mother and a father. In two halves of the cases the mother stayed home to take care of them and in 75% of the cases the father had a stable professional occupation. 80% of them belong to the middle class and only 14% come from poor families.
However, this apparent normality hides more important elements. The great majority of serial killers have suffered extreme episodes of physical and mental violence during their childhood. All in all, as children they have been neglected or abused and have experienced a great deal of conflicting situations, without being able to use proper defence systems. These frustrations, stress situations and anguish crisis, in association to a chronic incapacity to deal with them, can lead to total isolation from society, which the individual considers a hostile entity. Some people choose to kill themselves during their teenage years, instead of having to face a life of loneliness and frustration. They have very little self esteem. They are usually described by their family members and friends as very quiet, agreeable and closed, never seeming to accomplish their potencial. During their teenage years they may comit voyeuristic or fetishist acts which balance their inability to maintain normal intercourse with females. But they can also choose to exteriorize their hostility through agressive acts, mostly during puberty. They express themselves through anti-social activities which may lead them to murder. They want to get revenge of society by punishing those who seem to function well in it.
Half of the individuals have had criminal background. 53,3% have had psychiatric background, 60% of the families knew alcoholism, 33% used heavy drugs and 46,2% had extreme sexual difficulties. All families were unstable. In 68% of the cases the families changed homes frequentely and in 40% of the cases the individuals were sent for adoption, detention centers or psychiatric institutions before they were 18. 66% knew mental difficulties from early childhood. In 47% of the cases the biological father abandoned home before the subject was 12. On the other hand, 66% of them had domineering mothers and in 45% of the cases motherly coldness was the norm.
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