Classification Of Serial Killers

What is the definition of a serial killer? A serial killer is a person who murders three or more people, usually due to abnormal psychological gratification, with the murders totaling more than a month's time and including a significant break between each of them, but what makes a person become a killer?

There are many different kinds of killers in this world; first are mentally unstable killers who show psychopathic or sociopathic tendencies. These types of people appear to have limited resistance to killing if they have any at all. Secondly there are assassins and hitmen who kill either for profit. Thirdly there are those who kill out of self-defense. Lastly there are the soldiers whose job includes killing enemies in combat. So what category

While he confessed to 27 murders, of which nine were confirmed, his actual body count could be up to 200. In 1866 he purchased an empty lot across from the drugstore where he built his three-story. It was called the World's Fair Hotel and opened as a hostelry for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Holmes had an interesting way on how he would decapitate his victims. Some were locked in sound proof bedrooms fitted with gas lines that let him asphyxiate them at any time. Some victims were taken to one of the rooms on the second floor, called the "secret hanging chamber", where he hung them. Other victims were locked in a huge sound proof bank vault near his office, where they were left to suffocate. There was also a secret room that was completely sealed with solid brick that could only be entered through a trapdoor in the ceiling; Holmes would lock his victims in this room for days to die of hunger and thirst. "I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing." John Wayne Gacy was born on March 17, 1942 and died May 10, 1994, he was well known as the Killer Clown. Gacy was a serial killer and rapist who sexually assaulted and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 in Cook County, Illinois. As a child, Gacy was overweight and unathletic, he was close to his two sisters and mother, but had a difficult relationship with his father, an alcoholic who was physically abusive to his wife and