Mass Murders V Serial Killers
In terms of motivation, most serial killers kill not for love, money or revenge but for the fun of it. They enjoy the thrill, the sexual satisfaction or the dominance they have over the lives of their victims. One trait that separates serial killers from the average they are very skillful in pleasing themselves so they appear as beyond suspicion. This is part of why they are so difficult to track down and arrest. The serial killer rarely ever uses a firearm. A gun would end the victims life to soon. The killer would rather use something like a knife or, something that would make it way slower so they can have fun with the victim and torture him. The killer also enjoys the experience of the whole murder.
Currently a very popular view is that most serial killers are not just insane either medically insane or legal sense. they know right from wrong, they know exactly what there doing the result of their actions. They can control the desire to kill, but they decide not to do so, they are more cruel than crazy. The thrill of a killer usually is a sociopath (anti-social personality), a disorder of character rather than mind. He lacks a conscience, has no remorse and cares for himself and his needs in life. Other people are just tolls to fill his own needs and desires no matter how terrible. Serial killers have a deep need for control . The overwhelm majority of serial killers pursue victims for the thrill to satisfy there needs for fun or psychological dominance.
Randy Woodfield was once a college football star and even had the opportunity to try out for the Green Bay Packers in the early 1970's. Less than a decade later he would be arrested in a string of rapes, robberies, and murders that were committed near the I-5 freeway from Washington through northern California.
In addition to a suspected sixty or more sexual assaults, it is estimated that Woodfield committed as many as eighteen murders of women along Interstate 5 in the...
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