Emily Dickinson
Psychologically similarities
A serial killer is someone who kills more than three people with a cooling off period. There are many reasons a serial killer is lead to kill. There are visionary, missionary, lust, thrill and power killers. After reading about three serial killers, I have learned that although they killed under different circumstances they all did so to please or self fulfill some sort of desire. Jack the Ripper, Albert Fish, and Andrei Chikatilo are three famous serial killers who had people scared and locking their doors. Although the three had very different reasons to kill, there was also some similarity in the psychological aspect of the three men.
Jack the Ripper is a known serial killer who murdered five known women in the early mornings between the months of August and November. Jack the Ripper targeted prostitutes with no physical similarities between them, this indicated that Jack murdered on impulse. Jack the Ripper would slash the throats of his victims, stab them and brutally mutilate their bodies. Researchers state that he was someone that could be trusted and had a “poker face,” and that at one point or another, like Andrei Chikatilo, was questioned by the police but was released because he either did not fit the profile of the killer or was someone who was trusted enough. Jack the Rippers reasons behind his murders was to gain power and control that he lacked from women because it was only women that Jack the Ripper killed.
Albert Fish was a known sado-masochism serial killer. Fish was a cannibal who loved to eat children. Fish would pick his victims and lure them to a secluded house, decapitate them, and take their buttocks, nose, and ears. He would make stew out of these parts and stated that the buttocks was the sweetest part for him. Fish was arrested many times before but was never thought or fit that of a serial murderer. Fish was also proven to be legally insane and have religious...
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