1. An Introduction to Serial Killers
Deviance and Crime

2. Silence of the Lambs
(Inspired by the real serial killer– Ed Gein)

3. Common Traits Male High IQ
Sociopaths: a person who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
Unstable families
Domineering mothers and absent fathers
Bed wetter
Childhood abuse
History of psych. problems
Torment small animals
Obsession with fire starting
Suicidal at some point
Have fetishes or into sado-masochistic pornography
Stealing
Nightmares
Lying

4. The MacDonald Triad
Also known as the triad of sociopathy or the homicidal triad
The triad links 1) cruelty to animals, 2) obsession with fire setting, and 3) persistent bedwetting past a certain age, to violent behaviors
particularly homicidal behavior and sexually predatory behavior
(other studies have not shown a significant link between these childhood behaviors and adult sociopathy or homicidal tendencies)

5. Killers to think about Richard Trenton Chase Vampire of Sacramento
Drank blood of victims
Cannibal

6. Jeffery Dahmer Killed 17 men and boys
Forced sodomy, necrophilia, dismemberment, cannibalism

7. Albert Fish Werewolf of Wysteria and maybe Brooklyn Vampire
Child molestation
Cannibalism
Mostly African American victims

8. Mary Ann Cotton
killed more than 20 people, including her own children, by using arsenic and then collected their insurance money.

9. Aileen Wuornos A prostitute
Charged with killing seven men, who she claimed (attempted to) rape her while she was working as a prostitute.

10. Dennis Rader BTK: Bind, Torture, Kill
Strangle them, revive them, and then strangle them again
Sexual gratification from killing

11. John George Haigh Acid Bath Murderer Put victims in sulfuric acid
Sold their possessions

12. Ted Bundy Killed women who looked like his ex-girlfriend Raped
Confessed to 30 but probably more
Decapitated victims w/ hacksaw

13. John Douglas, a former chief of the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit and author of, "Mind Hunter," says, "A very conservative estimate is that there are between 35 and 50 active serial killers in the United States" at any given time.

14. Journal
What about serial killers makes them socially deviant? Why are their actions so taboo?