SERIAL KILLERS Celadon Ramsey

SERIAL KILLER CHILDHOOD Intelligent 1st or 2nd child in the family Issues within family Family history with addiction Abused growing up (Ressler, R. K., & Burguess, A. W., 1985, p. 2) (Guy, 2015) Sexual, Mental, Physical Abuse

CLASSIFYING A SERIAL KILLER BY CRIME SCENES Disorganized Organized (Taylor, Lambeth, Green, Bone, & Cahillane, 2012, p. 31-33)

ORGANIZED Serial killers who plan every detail, leave little or even no clues for investigators, are considered organized killers. Killer: intelligent, social, capable of maintaining a relationship Example: Dennis Rader (BTK) He stalked and planned the way his victims were killed. (Biography.com Editors, n.d) (Taylor, Lambeth, Green, Bone, & Cahillane, 2012, p. 31-33) (Biography.com Editors, n.d) (Ressler, R. K., & Burguess, A. W., 1985, p. 33) More likely to experience mental abuse growing up

DISORGANIZED Disorganized killers are ones that did not plan the killing. The killers do not have a certain type of victim. The crime scenes are full of evidence. Killer: unable to keep a relationship, low IQ, lonely, low skilled job Example: Ottis Toole Toole killed random people and went on a killing spree, he did not plan his victim's death or type of victim. (Biography.com Editors, n.d.) (Messori, 2016, p. 14) (Taylor, Lambeth, Green, Bone, & Cahillane, 2012, p. 31-33) (Biography.com Editors, n.d) (Ressler, R. K., & Burguess, A. W., 1985, p. 33)

MOTIVES FOR A SERIAL KILLER Visionary Mission-oriented Hedonistic Control (Messori, 2016, p. 17)

VISIONARY Examples of visionary killers are stated in Frequencies Between Serial Killer Typology and Theorized Etiological Factors. Voices command them to kill. Murder Scene: disorganized Victims are chosen randomly. (Messori, 2016, p. 17) (Ressler, R. K., & Burguess, A. W., 1985, p. 33) Taylor, Lambeth, Green, Bone, & Cahillane, 2012, p. 31-33)

MISSION-ORIENTED The FBI and author of Frequencies Between Serial Killer Typology and Theorized Etiological Factors describes mission oriented killers. Killers with a goal have excuses for killing a person or group of people. Murder Scene: organized Killer’s victims are not specific, but the group is. (Messori, 2016, p. 18) (Ressler, R. K., & Burguess, A. W., 1985, p. 33) (Taylor, Lambeth, Green, Bone, & Cahillane, 2012, p. 31-33) Killing all prostitutes because they are dirty and without them, the world will be a better place.

CONTROL Having the ability and power to decide how the victim will die/live/tortured are motives for a controlled killer. Victim is chosen specifically Murder scene: organized (Taylor, Lambeth, Green, Bone, & Cahillane, 2012, p. 33) (Messori, 2016, p. 20) ( (Ressler, R. K., & Burguess, A. W., 1985, p. 33 Thrill and Control killers are different. Control killers get pleasure from planning the act. Thrill killers get pleasure from killing, but once they have killed their victim they feel empty again. (Messori, 2016, p.20)

HEDONISTIC A hedonistic killer can fall under lust, thrill, or comfort. A lust killer will have intercourse with the dead body or eat the body. Thrill killers enjoy the entire act of killing A comfort killer kills to be financially stable. Murder Scene: organized or disorganized Victim: Specific or Unspecific (Messori, 2016, p. 19) (Ressler, R. K., & Burguess, A. W., 1985, p. 33) (Taylor, Lambeth, Green, Bone, & Cahillane, 2012, p. 31-33) Example: Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter

Overview There is not a specific look or attitude for a serial killer. A serial killer can be any age, gender, or race. Only the actions define if it is a serial killer and the type.