Becoming A Serial Killer

Despite how disturbed these people are, our society seems to have a fascination with these criminals. Whether we’re repulsed by their actions or just yearn to learn about them, the minds of these serial killers intrigue our generation. We don’t know why they do the things they do, all we know is that as humans, we are capable of horrible things. Serial killers are always looking for their next victim, they kill again and again but never seem to be satisfied. They are often able to escape being caught for years, decades and sometimes they aren’t caught at all. We cannot simply point a finger into a crowd of people and pick out who’s a serial killer and who is not. They hide behind facades and their darkness is hidden deep within them until one day, they snap and their true colors show.
Donald Gaskins claimed to have killed over one hundred people. He was a serial killer and rapist who terrorized South Carolina. As a child, he was beat by his stepfather and in turn he went to school and got into fights. He was referred

He murdered them along with some other people he knew. After the disappearance of a 13 year old girl, who he killed because she rejected him, the police became suspicious. They searched his apartment and found some of her clothes. In an attempt to avoid the electric chair, he began confessing to the murders. He ending up being sent to the electric chair anyways (Crime Museum, 2016).
Richard Trenton Chase, also known as “The Vampire of Sacramento”, was a man who murdered six people, drank their blood and ate their internal organs. He was raised in a strict household and he enjoyed killing and mutilating animals. In his teens, he was an alcoholic and had a number of girlfriends but he couldn’t keep a relationship due to the fact that he could not be aroused. He went to a psychiatrist and was told that he had either a mental illness or suppressed rage and it was holding him