The phase of repetitions and elaborations of fantasies have themes such as murder, revenge, control, mutilation, cannibalism and possession. Nothing can stop the murderer at this stage; 2 the phase of identifying the victim: the serial killer begins to attend places where it is more likely for him to find a victim. There is nothing random or accidental at this stage. He begins a very seemingly innocent conversation, whose real intention is to get the vital information needed to lure the victim into a trap.
Individuals are charismatic, kind, charming, and well- dressed. The previous phases have the task of increasing the degree of excitation of the subject; the capture causes pleasure, as the murderer feels that the victim is, at last, in his possession, and he can take all the time he wants to prepare the murderous ritual. The capture can be swift and decisive, so as not to give the victim a chance, but it can also be slow and studied, in order to increase the terror level of his prey. It is the stage of triumph, often accompanied by an orgasmic release of tension built up in the previous steps.
Rape or mutilation often takes place after the victim was rendered unconscious, is dying or is already dead. Sexual acts often involve insertion of foreign objects into body orifices insertional necrophilia. Death is caused by strangulation, wounds from blunt or sharp weapons, and the weapon is often found at the crime scene; 7 totemic phase: it is the time following the crime, when the aggressor relives the murder committed through memories and fetishes.
The experience was so rewarding that the killer feels drained of all energy. To prolong the feeling of power and triumph, the murderer takes souvenirs or crime trophies body parts, clothing. These trophies are essential in order to create and maintain in some way, a bridge between his fantasies and the crimes committed. The murderer can pose the corpse. This phase also practices various perversions, such as cannibalism, necrophilia, and masturbation in front of the body or parts of the body.
An organized killer is more inclined to take photographs or video the victim, both before and after the murder; 8 depressive phase: after the murder, the serial killer suffers great emotional disappointment and he gets depressed.
However, since the victims are seen as objects, the memory of the murders may fade over time, and shift the killers in their fantasies, make them move towards a new murder, and restart the homicidal cycle Samenow, Serial homicidal behavior is the product of the circular combination of three factors F which are interwoven with each other, with variable importance from individual to individual, and of different intensities of the respective sub-factors SF.
The F factor S includes all social and environmental components that can affect the behavior of a serial murderer. SF1: Original family environment. In most cases, the family in which a serial killer grows up does not allow a healthy development of empathy and, consequently, the formation of a balanced personality. Physical, sexual and psychological abuse, and emotional deprivation are some of the many traumas which the subject undergoes during childhood that establish the foundations for future criminal behavior.
SF2: Insertion in society. During adolescence, and, later, as an adult, a serial murderer has, in principle, a low level of inclusion in society; in fact, very often, he does not have a rewarding job and has few friends, and is a person with few cultural interests. SF3: Predisposing, facilitating and triggering events. In every life story of a serial killer, you can find predisposing, facilitating and triggering events that may occur at any time, triggering the homicidal chain reaction; these events, which for another person may seem completely harmless, instead, for a serial murderer have a disruptive emotional energy, which is able to shatter a fragile identity.
The list of these events is not the same for everyone, but among the most common, there are sudden deaths, which upset the precarious internal balance of the subject, sudden abandonment by a person, easy access to a weapon, and the presence of a certain type of easily approachable victim.
SF4: Sub-cultural influences. This factor assumes considerable importance in those cases in which the serial killer grows up in a criminal environment, where, for example, the parents exhibit criminal behavior, or the subject is inserted, especially during adolescence, in a group of criminal peers who exercise a significant influence over him. Several serial killers start a criminal career early, because they are included in a context that facilitates and supports the shift to an aggressive action.
SF5: Rewards and punishments by the environment. The way society reacts to the first deviant and criminal acts by a potential serial killer plays an important role in guiding the future behavior of the subject. The criminal path of an individual does not begin with a serial murder, but with less serious incidents. The subject may receive rewards or punishments for their actions, or a punishment with an educational function, which can serve to slow or block the evolution of serial homicidal behavior.
SF1: Psychological and psychopathological traits. A serial killer has peculiar psychological characteristics that, in many cases, are related to psychopathological traits and can take different forms mental illness, neurological deficits and orientate his behavior. SF2: Sexuality. The quality and quantity of sexual impulses of the subject during the developmental period feeds their fantasy life and is a key determinant of adult behavior.
The development of a perverse sexuality can be a central component of a future serial killer. SF3: Imaginative Life fantasies. A common feature of all serial killers is to have a very rich and varied imaginative life.
SF4: Subjective needs motivations. Throughout life, everyone has aspirations and motivations that lead them to exhibit certain behaviors. In serial killers, murder is always linked to purely personal psychological motivations; in fact, when they are captured and interrogated about what prompted them to kill, it is very difficult to understand their justification.
SF5: Processing capacity of trauma. This individual factor is very important to understand why some people become serial killers and others do not, even though there are similar life experiences in their personal history. A traumatic event for example, the mourning of a loved one, humiliation caused by schoolmates, rejection by a sexual partner can be handled in different ways by different people. SF1: Communication with himself.
Serial murderers have difficulty establishing and maintaining genuinely empathic relationships with others and prefer to live in a dimension of loneliness, accompanied only by their imaginations.
The quality of these fantasies and the internal dialogue that every serial killer has with himself, are of fundamental importance and influence his future action. SF2: Communication of the individual-family of origin. SF3: Communication of the individual-sexual partners.
Sex is one of the fundamental aspects of human life and the type of interaction created by the individual with sexual partners has definite influence on his personality. Many of the serial killers analyzed, have developed an inadequate path composed of refusal, abandonment and humiliation of every kind. Therefore, they come to hate a certain category of people in most cases, women against whom they wish to take revenge by killing them.
SF4: Communication of the individual-society. SF5: Ways of learning violence. From what we can deduce, a human being is not born a serial killer, but, over the years, learns the use of violence to satisfy his needs identity, sexual, personal gratification, omnipotence and ways of learning are always a question of interaction with one or more negative patterns taken as reference points Table 4.
Analyzing the phenomenon of serial killers, elements emerge which can determine serial homicidal behavior. The instinct of repulsion of death, which is present in all human beings, is weakened or absent in serial killers. They feel attracted to death, and all that concerns death. Fantasy has a fundamental role and pushes the serial killer into an imaginary world, where he finds more satisfaction than in the real world.
Before killing, he will experiment the murder in his imagination. If he is satisfied by the first fantasy, he will create other fantasies, until,. Table 4. On termination of this phase, he will fantasize about a new victim to sacrifice. This research cannot provide definitive answers to the problem about serial murderer, however, it can be useful for further research in the field of serial killers.
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I just feel that the justice system in this country, America, is a complete joke. That is… fine, I have come to peace with my fate. I have committed my last cleansing for a while, decided to leave good Lt.
Vasiliev a calling card. I instructed him to come alone, though I also wrote that he could bring any weapons he wanted. Depending on the results of my confrontation with him, this might be my last entry. If he joins me in my cleansing efforts, everything will proceed as planned. I guess my name would be a good start. I am Isaac Vasiliev, a Lt. Detective serving the Los Angeles Police Department. I confronted David—I refuse to call him Judicar—in the abandoned building, armed with an assault rifle.
He appeared of normal build, and he was clad in dark black robes with a cloak, and a gray and red mask that he normally used to conceal his face. As I approached him, he took off the mask, revealing a man of normal appearance, bearded, brown hair.
My guess is that David either did not know about this or did not care. He impressed me as a person who loves to strike fear in his victims, a man who truly believed his mask was his identity. When I told David to surrender, he told me that he wanted to talk with me. But that did not give him the right to butcher the rapist. He attempted to convince me to join him, to aid him in his efforts to clean the streets the way the system is not doing. I must admit… I was tempted to join David.
But I ultimately refused. See, David was the most dangerous type of criminal: one who is totally convinced that what he is doing is right. I proceeded to ask him whether or not Tanya would want him killing these people. He demanded that I leave her out of this, but I pressed the issue, and he attacked me. After a brief struggle, I gained the upper hand and dealt the mortal blow with his own katana. Before David died, he requested that I leave a final entry in this journal. This man needed help, simple as that.
But David was wrong… You cannot go around killing criminals in such a manner as he did. You cannot take the law into your own hands! That is not justice. There were electrical burns on the body of his first victim, Chad Walters.
There were also cuts all over his arms and legs. Giovanizzi, the mobster that David killed, was also slain brutally. When I interviewed her, she could do nothing more than draw pictures of what she saw. She has not spoken a word to anyone in the last two years, no child should have to go through that!
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