Jacob sat in a coffee shop, typing furiously on his laptop, obliviously to the world around him. I was watching from a seat outside the coffee shop, a half-empty coffee in front of me.
An hour later, Jacob closed his laptop, paid for his drink and made his way out of the coffee shop in direction of his home, I knew where he was going and the route he usually took, I had been watching him for some time, two months to be exact.
Jacob was a twenty-three-year-old studying for his masters in applied mathematics at the local university, his mornings were spend at the university and didn’t leave until two in the afternoon when he went to his job.
He was a part-time data analysts and worked for the afternoon until seven where he left work to go to a coffee shop and stayed for an hour
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Before walking away, I spared a glance at Jacob lifeless body which laid on the floor, someone will see him eventually and call the police.
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“Jacob summers, a twenty-three-year-old graduate student, was found dead early this morning in a park. The cause of his death was cut throat. That is the sixth death in the past six months and the police are now considering the work of a serial killer. To all our spectators, stay on guard and refrain from staying out late at night.”
“People these days,” Jannelle, my wife, said while making herself a cup of coffee, “I wonder what goes through the mind of the killer.”
“Who knows,” I replied. I wondered how she would react knowing that her husband was the killer, I made my way to the dinner table joining my five-year-old daughter, Carmen.
“Good morning sweetheart. Ready for school?” I said kissing her cheek and taking a seat next to her.
“Good morning daddy. Can’t stay at home today, please? I don’t want to go to school,”
“Absolutely not, young lady, you are going to school,” Jannelle interrupted from the
In the book, The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man’s Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World’s Most Terrifying Killers, Tony Ciaglia writes letters to various serial killers and starts a friendship with them. The friendships Tony’s build’s with these serial killer’s through phone calls and letters helped law enforcement in more than one way. The serial killers trust Tony and opens up to him about things they’ve done and why. The Serial Killer Whisperer gives readers an inside look of serial killers minds. Although the letters in this novel are between Tony and various serial killers, Pete Earley is the author. He interviewed Tony and his friends and families. Pete Earley is also the author of three New York Times bestsellers and he has won the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime. Ealey wrote this gripping tale in a way that would captivate any audience.
Shortly before he went into the theater, he stopped at tavern for a drink. While in the bar an
Brogaard, Berit. "The Making of a Serial Killer." Psychology Today. Sussex Directories, Inc., 7 Dec. 2012. Web. 03 May 2014.
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Have you ever wondered what could cause a person to kill another person? How they could do it time and time again and not feel one ounce of regret? Serial killer Joel Rifkin asked himself this same question after he was convicted of killing 17 women. He wondered why he could commit such a violent act, and he decided to have scientist explore his brain to give him the answers that he wanted. Dr. Daniel Amen examined Joel’s brain scans, “When I looked at Joel Rifkin’s scan, I thought to myself, this is a brain that is vulnerable to violence. He had low activity in his prefrontal cortex that most human thoughtful part of the brain” ("Joel Rifkin - Psychopathic Brain"). Joel is not alone on this, 13 out of every 20 serial killers that have been
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By definition, a serial killer is ‘an individual who murders more than three victims, one at a time during a relatively short interval’, but is it possible to define the reasons and motives behind these attacks? One of the most intriguing aspects of crime throughout the years has been focused on serial killers. What makes a serial killer tick? There is not any one, straightforward answer as to what motivates individuals to commit murder. “Unravelling the making of a serial killer is like aligning a Rubik's cube”.
What drives a person past insanity? What drives an individual to feel no remorse, but rather a psychological relief in murderous acts? Consider all the different types of people on Earth as well as the lifestyles and situations these people are raised up in. As much as it’s desired to think the world is filled with people who carry no such thing as a bad bone in their bodies, that thought process is simple deception. The fact is that psychopaths and sociopaths hide among others in everyday environments - neighbors, teachers, family members, doctors, friends, or even the local mailman. Psychopaths are declared as people who suffer from a mental disorder causing aggression and abnormal behaviors such as their “lack of
According to the Oxford Dictionary; a serial killer is a person who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable behavior pattern. They usually go through a cooling down period where there are no murders. Then start the killing spree back up again after the cooling down period. The killing spree usually doesn’t last more than a couple of years without the murderer being caught. And there is usually a victim type and killing style which leads to the killer being identified. This is the definition of a serial killer so why is it so commonly believed that this is a male dominated area. “However, if, as seems to be the case in many countries, the only
...tow upon him the humanity we so brutally robbed him of the previous night. The counter clerk replied that he came into the restaurant often, ordered a cup of coffee, sat at the same booth in the dark corner, and slowly sipped the hot contents as if savoring every last drop of the civilization it provided.
Jack the Ripper, the Zodiac Killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Son of Sam, the BTK Killer. The names and assumed names of these cold-blooded serial killers are forever branded into the cognizance of people everywhere. This is mainly due to the mass media coverage, including newspapers, movies, television specials and books. This media coverage brought to light that these killers were, on the surface, normal, successful, attractive, productive members of society – that is, until the time that their heinous crimes came to be discovered.
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When they left they showed him remy. Then he left satisfied but a but concerned, he made his article. Then the restaurant got closed but then it became a delight.