Fantasy Among Serial Killers

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“ ‘The fantasies become elaborated over time and new bits and pieces are added depending on the intellectual capacity of the person,’ said Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist who recently completed a study of sadistic killers,’’ (Violent Fantasies Common Among Serial Killers, by Dana Priest).
“Fantasy is the driving element in the serial killer’s life, and as a result plays an integral role in the murder itself. The killer is not only pushed to kill by their thought patterns (Ressler, 1988), but is essentially incited to murder by an intrusive fantasy life (Burgess, 1991). Their early-learned view that violence against other humans is a “normal” and “acceptable” (Holmes & De Burger, 1988) way of getting what they want serves to virtually

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