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Journal 12 Due Date: Friday, May 12
Mason LeMieur Pages Read Quarter: 363 pages
I am reading the book Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay, and I have finished the book so I have no page number to put. The book is about a man named Dexter Morgan; he is a blood spatter analyst at Miami Metro. Dexter Morgan is also a serial killer on the side of his day job. The thing is he doesn’t kill innocent people he kills only bad people. In this journal I will be evaluating the character Brian Moser.
I have evaluated the character Brian Moser in the book Darkly Dreaming Dexter. One of the interesting things about Brian is that he is Dexter’s biological brother. One of the traits of Brian Moser is that he is also a serial killer like
John Wayne Gacy, Jeffery Dahmer, Henry Lee Lucas, Charles Manson, Timothy McVeigh, Ann Rule, Angel Resendez, David Berkowitz, Albert DeSalvo, Ottis Toole, Eddie Gein, and Herbert Mullin, what do all of these serial killers have in common and why did they kill? This is the question I am going to answer in my paper. I am going to examine several killers and their childhoods, mental disorders, and types of killings they performed.
“She still today never told me she loved me…never… never in her life … it’s too hard to explain,” says Anthony Sowell as he mentions his mother while he is being interrogated by Cleveland Homicide Detective (Sberna). The classic neighbor that every family wishes to have, friendly, helpful and caring was holding back numerous secrets. In Anthony Sowell’s actions of the rape, beatings and murder of 11 innocent women, he demonstrates the qualities of a human monster while showing how nurture creates a personality as well as proving that humans are capable of creation more fear than those who are written about in fiction.
As a young child, Robert Ressler became intrigued by serial killers. His fascination started when the “Lipstick Killer” attacked victims in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois. As he grew older so did his interest in serial killers and how they operate. Ressler studied psychology in college in order to understand how the killer mind worked. After college, he enlisted in the U.S. army to learn how to apprehend criminals. Armed with knowledge of how the mind works and how to catch criminals, Ressler joined the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Within the FBI, Ressler developed the Psychological Profiling Unit. This unit combined psychology with criminal cases to produce personality profiles of serial killers. Ressler also helped construct
Vronsky, Peter. "A "Typical" Serial Killer: Gary Leon Ridgway, "The Green River Killer"."Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters. New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, 2004. . Print.
Mass Murderers and Serial Killers are nothing new to today’s society. These vicious killers are all violent, brutal monsters and have an abnormal urge to kill. What gives people these urges to kill? What motivates them to keep killing? Do these killers get satisfaction from killing? Is there a difference between mass murderers and serial killers or are they the same. How do they choose their victims and what are some of their characteristics? These questions and many more are reasons why I was eager to write my paper on mass murderers and serial killers. However, the most interesting and sought after questions are the ones that have always been controversial. One example is; what goes on inside the mind of a killer? In this paper I will try to develop a better understanding of these driven killers and their motives.
In the short story, Bullet in the Brain, by Tobias Wolff, a character named Anders is shot in the head during a bank robbery. As the story first begins, he is presented as a man who is known for his “elegant savagery”. While reading the story, it is hard to care about Anders due to his unsympathetic personality. However, as the story progresses, memories of Anders’s past are resurfaced and the reasons for his behavior are understood. Readers start off disliking Anders because of his cruel behavior, but once we recognize the many tragic events he has gone through, such as “seeing a woman leap to her death”, it is justifiable that he is callous. Choosing to portray Anders character in this way reminds readers to not judge a book by their cover.
In this essay, you will see the resemblance between the lovely bones by Alice Sebold and my friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf. They both have aspects of killers, passion, and curiosity. The main theme of these of two books is passion. Passion gives people an intense desire or enthusiasm on all things they do. Jeffery Dahmer had the passion to kill innocent men. Mr. Harvey had the passion to rape and kill girls. And Jack Salmon had the passion to find his daughter’s murderer and get the justice she deserves.
The Dexter T.V. show is about a blood splatter pattern analyst for Miami Metro Police Department who also accompany of an undisclosed serial killer. Hunting down criminals who slip past the Miami Metro Police Department. The person Dexter is quite different from a “normal” person’s life. He is very intelligent person; while multitasking being a father as well. In his spare time, he is a vigilante serial killer who goes after other murderers who have escaped Miami area. At the same time he follows all the moral codes his step-dad Harry Morgan have coached him since he was young. Which in the show he refers to as “The Code of Harry” time and time again. The world he lives in is very fast paced based on his two mind concept. He considers himself emotionally separated from the rest of mankind. He always considers the “humans” as if he is not one himself. He tells himself he has no conscience or feelings towards anything in his life. Until that is when he met his girlfriend Rita. She had two kids prior meeting Dexter, but they decided to have one their own. That changed his own image from having feelings towards belongings or relationships with others. The main image of Dexte...
Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theaters, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Nobles Booksellers” (Brown). When people think of serial killers, names such as Dahmer, Gacy, Bundy, and Gein are cited. During the time Jack the Ripper was executing his victims in London, Holmes began his gruesome career in Chicago (America’s Serial Killers). “Despite being America’s first serial killer, Holmes is hardly a familiar name and until now we haven’t had any popular visual record of his crimes: (Spikol). Why is it that people only think of the more popular killers with higher known profiles? They are all very similar to one another because they share characteristics. H.H. Holmes was a successful serial killer because he was well educated, cunning and charming. Those are just a few traits Holmes ...
One of the basic assumptions underlying any detective novel is a sense of social order. The novelist assumes that the reader agrees that killing people is wrong; it does not matter if the victims are exemplary citizens or odious individuals, it is the mere act of snuffing out another’s life that is against the social order. In P.D. James’ A Mind To Murder, Nurse Marion Bolam’s murder of her stuffy and self-righteous cousin Enid illustrates a situation where the nurse and her invalid mother had suffered from her cousin’s stinginess; James gives us a clear look at the murderer’s fear that if Enid had been given time to change her will as she had threatened to do, the Marion and her mother would never get the money to which they considered themselves entitled. However, James urges us to understand, this does not matter. Murder, for whatever reason it is committed, is still murder, and it is always wrong.
Arndt, W., Hietpas, T., & Kim, J (2004). Critical characteristics of male serial murderers. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 29(1).
Introduction: On the spectrum of criminal activity, serial killers are rather rare. Rarer still is a serial killer like Ted Bundy. Bundy confessed to killing 28 women in the 1970s in ghastly fashion and some believe he may have killed far more. It is hard to imagine what could cause any person to cross the mental boundary into such macabre behavior as Bundy perpetrated. Nevertheless, it is important to try to understand that behavior because only though such an understanding would society be able to identify and deter mass murderers in order to save lives.
The Chicago murder rate has risen rapidly since 2013. The murder rate peaked in 2001 with 23.0 per 100,000 residents and has more than tripled New York City’s rate of 7.0 per 100,000 residents (“Crime Rate in Chicago, Illinois”) while in 2015, the murder rate was 17.5 per 100,000 residents (“Crime Rate in Chicago, Illinois”). Seeing that the Midwest is the second highest region for violence crimes in the United States, it’s clear where Thomas Harris, the author of the Hannibal series, found his inspiration for the primary antagonist, Jame “Buffalo Bill” Gumb, in his psychological thriller The Silence of the Lambs. Thomas Harris crafted his bone-chilling antagonist, Jame “Buffalo Bill” Gumb in his iconic novel, The Silence of the Lambs, on Henry
Dexter is a show where the main character where the main character, Dexter Morgan, played by Michael C. Hall is a blood splatter analysis. He works in the Miami homicide division and examines crime scenes. Unbeknownst to all of his friends and family, Dexter is also a serial killer on the side. However, he only kills people who have been proven guilty of committing murder or other heinous crimes. When Dexter finds himself in a dangerous situation with another killer, Dexter thinks to himself “suppose I should be upset, even feel violated, but I'm not. No, in fact, I think this is a friendly message, like "Hey, wanna play?" and yes, I want to play. I really, really do.” This mindset highlights Dexter’s unique and barren emotions, or lack thereof. When Dexter was a child, he witnessed the slaughter of his mother, performed in front of him with a chainsaw. Days later, the police found him and his brother, Rudy, sitting in a pool of their mother’s blood. Harry Morgan, the officer who found Dexter, decided to adopt and raise Dexter. Harry soon started to notice Dexter’s peculiarities. Dexter’s social ineptitude, lack of emotion, and tendency to slaughter small animals were red
Sometimes people are downright unpredictable. And the society itself could just be the thorn on our sides. After I read the chapter, I don’t know what to feel or even say about it, because at one point it sounds impossible. If it wasn’t for the book, I wouldn’t even find out that there’s such a thing as “intimate” murder. But the more I read about it, the more I realize there are even deeper questions. I noticed that in murders, you can’t really idenitfy motives in general. Each has an individual motive and it’s very intricate. We can’t even tell if the suspect is crazy or has a psychological imbalance. I might have been watching a lot of CSI or Law & Order, Court TV and such, but to me I think through reading, it makes me more aware of how dangerous we people could be.