Serial+Killers

The United States alone has over 200 convicted serial killers, and John Douglas, the former Chief of the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, says that there is an estimate of 30-35  active serial killers in the United States at any given time. A serial killer can be defined as “an individual who kills three or more individuals on separate occasions, returning  to a state of normal function between murders.” This “state of normal function” is what separates serial killers from other murders, also making it even more difficult for  investigators to apprehend these killers. However, investigators have developed a method known as criminal profiling to assist in the capture and understanding of serial  killers. While serial killers commit terrible and unforgivable crimes, they have impacted our society in one positive way. Serial killers, like Ted Bundy and the Zodiac Killer, have  been the inspiration to american entertainment for years. Movies, television series, books, and even video games have been all been created due to serial killers. Americans  spend millions of dollars on movies alone, based off of serial killers. Serial killers have also affected society by establishing what we, average citizens, believe to be typical characteristics of any serial killer. Most of these characteristics don’t even fit a serial killer and some of them are not always true.
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I.) Robert Hansen

 1-Past, family, childhood

 2-First petty crimes

 3-The perfect killing spot

 4-Evidence piles up

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 5-Video: psycological analysis, victims, methods of murder

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">II.) Ted Bundy

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 1-Past, family, childhood

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 2-Crime spree begins

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 3-Escaped being caught

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 4-Convicted

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 5-Video: Interview Ted Bundy gives 24 hours before execution

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">III.) Impact on America

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 1- Entertainment

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 2- Criminal profiling

__**<span style="color: #010188; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Robert Hansen: **__ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Robert Hansen was born on February 15, 1939, to a Danish immigrant and his wife, Edna Hansen, in Estherville, Iowa. Hansen had a rough childhood, with a strict father <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> who forced Hansen to work in their bakery, Hansen was also of small stature and had horrible acne as well as a stutter. He was picked on and is remembered as a "loner". <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Hasen displayed a characteristic that placed him into the psychological profile of a developing serial killer. On December 7, 1960, Hansen forced a 16 year old employee at <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> the bakery to assist him in burning down the school bus garage. The employee turned both himself and Hansen in. Hansen was sentenced to 3 years in prison and his <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">wife soon divorced him. He only served 20 months of his sentence despite the fact that he displayed and was assessed as having and "infantile personality," meaning he <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> had an obsession with getting back at people. Hansen soon married again within a few months of being released and he started stealing "just for the thrill of doing it." No <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">charges were ever laid even though he was caught multiple times. in 1967, Hansen decided to leave for Alaska.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Due to things like clubs, Hansen was able to locate women all over Anchorage Alaska and found that for money, these women would go practically anywhere with him. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Women noted how "He sort of looked like the perfect dork," and they didn't find him threatening. However, once they entered his vehicle, Hansen turned into a <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">psychopath. Over the years, the number of victims accumulated rapidly. Most rapes were never reported and even if they were, and Hansen was positively identified, <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Hansen always won over the prostitutes story. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Hansen was able to remain a respected figure in society, as he opened a bakery at 9th and Ingra in January 1981. In January 1982, he bought a Piper Super Cub <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">N1089Z, while he never actually obtained his pilot's license. He used this plane on his killing sprees as he would pick up a woman on Fourth Avenue, handcuff her at <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">gunpoint, and fly her out to Knik River. Hansen was discovered to be a very methodical killer. He contained an aviation chart on which he marked the location of several <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">bodies, the Knik River being the favorite.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Hasen, like many other serial killers, collected "trophies." These trophies were items from his victims which included things like jewelry, and this helped in his successful <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">conviction. Police were also able to obtain several search warrants and on October 27, 1983, police went through the Hansen family house, cars, and plane. Police <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">photographed, vacuumed, sketched and seized any evidence they could. Robert Hansen had a bail set at a half-million dollars and was arrested and charged with assault, <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> kidnapping, weapons offenses, theft and insurance fraud.Police gathered enough evidence to charge Hansen with four murders. Hansen agreed to a plea bargain, where <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">he showed police the location his victims. Police were able to locate eleven.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">On February 27, 1984, Hansen was sentenced to 461 years plus life without a chance of parole by Superior Court Judge Ralph E. Moody. He was sent to the maximum <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> security facility at Lewisburg, PA, but was then transferred to the Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward, Alaska, in 1988. media type="youtube" key="ZjZNB-Ir_mY" width="425" height="350"

__**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ted Bundy: **__ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Ted Bundy was born on November 24, 1949, to Elinor Cowell, a single mother. The family chose to raise Bundy as her brother, as opposed to her son, and Bundy never <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> knew of his biological father. Ted Bundy showed how serial killers could appear to be a normal guy and a socially respectable person, as he was a law student and then <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> became the assistant director of the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Commission. Bundy was also highly intelligent, later leading to his classification as an organized <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">killer. Bundy's psychopathic personality began to show itself in the way that he looked at others. He considered other people as objects, and only objects, not people you <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> could love or hate. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">By 1974, Bundy began to murder people. He abducted, raped, and tortured students in Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Colorado. Police knew of twelve killing by <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> August of that year by a mysterious man known as "Ted". A police officer pulled Bundy over and noted a crowbar, a ski mask, handcuffs and rope in Bundy's car. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Because of these items, Bundy was arrested for possession of burglary tools. Police could then connect him to a kidnap victim from a year earlier as well as tie him to <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">several murders in Colorado.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">A jury eventually found Bundy guilty and sent him to the Utah State Prison on a one-to-fifteen year sentence. Police continued to investigate him and succeeded in <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">linking him to three murder victims in Colorado. After a series of events, Bundy made his second escape and headed for Florida and a week after arriving, on the night of <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> January 14, 1978, he attacked several coeds at the Chi Omega sorority on the Florida State University Campus. He killed two and viciously wounded two others.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In February, Bundy got pulled over again. He refused to identify himself, but a fingerprint check with the FBI established his identity as he was also recently placed on their <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> most wanted list. Bundy was convicted of killing the two students at FSU on July 23, 1979. One of the key pieces of evidence used in the trial were his dental impressions. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> These impressions matched several bite marks on the body on one of the women. His sentence included death by electrocution.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Before his execution, Bundy tried several methods to avoid it. He even started listing bodies of where victims could be located in order to prolong the date of his <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">execution. Finally, on January 24, 1989, Ted Bundy was electrocuted by a female executioner.

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__**<span style="color: #ff3d00; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Impact on American Society: **__ <span style="color: #ff1abe; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Entertainment~ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Serial killers, as gruesome and terrifying as they are, have been the inspiration to over 900 television shows and movies. Their crimes spark our imagination and entice our <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> sense of thrill and fear. The top ten serial killer movies include: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1) The Deliberate Stangler- Based off the compulsive killer, Ted Bundy. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2) To Catch a Killer- Based off of John Wayne Gacy who tortured and murdered over two dozen victims. He also buried them in the crawlspace beneath his house. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">3) Helter Skelter- Based of the murders of the followers of Charles Manson. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">4) Dahmer- Based off of the cannibalist Jeffrey Dahmer who killed 15 boys. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">5) Ed Gein- Based off of the farmer Ed Gein. This movie also inspired the movies Psyco, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">6) The Boston Strangler- Shows the confession of Albert DeSalvo to the rape and killing of 13 women in the early 1960s. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">7) Bonnie and Clyde- Tells the story of the notorious couple, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, who robbed small banks in Texas and Oklahoma during the Great Depression in the 1930s. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">8) Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer- Based off of the case of Henry Lee Lucas. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">9) Summer of Sam- Taking place in the Bronx in the summer of 1977, the Son of Same terroizes a city by stalking and killing couples in parked cars. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">10) Speck- Based off of the spree killer Richard Speck, the movie portrays the murder of nursing students at a Chicago dormitory on July 13, 1966.

<span style="color: #00eb71; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Criminal Profiling~ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Psychologists and investigators have developed the technique of criminal profiling in order to assist in the understanding and apprehension of serial killers. This is due to <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">the fact that serial killers are unique from other murderers because they are able to retain a facade of normality. Serial killers, unlike mass murderers and spree killers, are <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">able to return to a normal state of function in between murders. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Criminal profiling can be defined as "a method used to identify and apprehend criminals based on an understanding of an individual's psychological make-up." This <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">method is also known as offender profiling, psychological profiling, and criminal investigative analysis. A serial killer has very distinct psychological traits and behavioral <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">patterns that show themselves through the killer’s crimes, and this is what makes criminal profiling so useful in tracking down serial killers. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Unknown Subject of an Investigation is referred to as an Unsub. Investigators are able to construct a psychological profile of the Unsub based on the analysis of the <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">crime scene and victim patterns. Investigators and criminologists can draw conclusions and create a profile based on the killer's method of murder, body disposal, victim <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">type, and any post-murder activity, like providing clues to the police and the media. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Dr. Thomas Bond is considered to be the first modern serial killer profiler as he examined the last victim, and previous murders, of the known killer, Jack the Ripper, in <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1888. This is nearly a 125 years earlier than today's system of profiling, leading to the consideration of criminal profiling being a modern science. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Behavioral Analysis Unit, BAU, was created under the direction of profiler, Howard Teten. The BAU uses criminal profiling techniques in order to aid in the apprehension <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> of violent criminals like serial killers. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In 1985, the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VI-CAP) was created. VI-CAP is a national computer database that finds patterns that investigators wouldn't notice, <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> among victims and crime scenes. It was originally suggested by Pierce Brooks, in 1954, who developed the program with the assistance of the convicted serial killer Ted <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Bundy.

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