As Dianne was in labor, she could tell something was wrong. There was blood everywhere. The doctors were running around and in complete panic. All the wanted to do was get this over with. She had been pushing for seven hours. She continued but was getting weaker by the minute. After a final push with all of the strength she had, the doctors pulled out the baby. She looked down in pure excitement ready to hold her new son. The doctors looked up at her in sadness. “Dianne, he didn’t make it. He died during the birth. Im so sorry.” She couldn’t believe it and couldn’t find the words to say anything, resulting in her breaking into hysteria. This was the only thing she had keeping her going. Her husband died in the third month of her pregnancy and …show more content…
She spent hours going from store to store and continuously found nothing. She decided to head out and look other places. She searched for hours and found no kid that was left unattended. She gave up and began to drive home. On her way back to her house, she passed a eerie abandoned park and saw a little boy sitting on one of the slides. She immediately stopped her car and ran towards the child. “Hey” she said. “Are you hungry? I’m going to get some food if you want some.” he reluctantly said yes and got down from the slide and into her car. As they drove, she started to ask him about himself, like his age, his name, if he had a family, etc. “I’m Russell” he said. “I am 8 years old and i have my mommy, my daddy, and my sissy. What food are you getting?” he asked. She didn’t respond to his question. As they pulled up to the mysterious looking house, Russell asked Dianne where they were. She told him she was taking him inside to get something to eat. “I don’t want to go in there!” Russell said, “It looks scary in there!” As he continued to refuse, Dianne duct taped his mouth shut and his hands together and carried him inside. Back at the park, his parents were looking everywhere for him. His father was a police officer so he went into the station and began to fill out a missing persons report. They were freaking out and his mother began to wail in horror. The police blocked off the neighborhood and checked every car the see if they could find Russell. They didn’t have any luck and they started to ask questions to and about everyone that knew him. They put out a missing child warning on the news asking anyone who had seen him to call the
Susie’s mother opened the door to let Molly, Susie’s babysitter, inside. Ten-month old Susie seemed happy to see Molly. Susie then observed her mother put her jacket on and Susie’s face turned from smiling to sad as she realized that her mother was going out. Molly had sat for Susie many times in the past month, and Susie had never reacted like this before. When Susie’s mother returned home, the sitter told her that Susie had cried until she knew that her mother had left and then they had a nice time playing with toys until she heard her mother’s key in the door. Then Susie began crying once again.
President Moose, do you actually believe Audrey is capable of killing her own father? I mean he is still the person who gave life to her don't you think she will feel a little remorse for him? It has been known that most people in my class are trying to investigate the case as well. For the most part, I can totally understand why they are so hooked on solving the mysterious answer. After analyzing the story " The Murder" By Joyce Carol Oates I've come up with some clues that can help me solve this mysterious story. Personally, I indeed believe Audrey is capable of murdering her father.
The sentencing of underage criminals has remained a logistical and moral issue in the world for a very long time. The issue is brought to our perspective in the documentary Making a Murderer and the audio podcast Serial. When trying to overcome this issue, we ask ourselves, “When should juveniles receive life sentences?” or “Should young inmates be housed with adults?” or “Was the Supreme Court right to make it illegal to sentence a minor to death?”. There are multiple answers to these questions, and it’s necessary to either take a moral or logical approach to the problem.
Her eyes were heavy, her body weak. As she crawled into the bathroom two feet away, Abby felt her body slowly succumbing to the numbness. All of her pain would be gone in less than 10 minutes, so why would she want to turn back? What about the senior trip Abby had planned with her best friend? What about the chair at the dinner table that would now be vacant? A couple of hours later Abby’s family came home from her little sister’s soccer game. Little did they know what they would find as they approached the top of the stairs. Her little sister, Ali, stood still as she looked down at her feet. There on the cold floor lay her big sister, her role model, and her super hero. Ali was crushed when she saw the pill bottle in her hand and the pale color of her skin. Her mom fell to her knees screaming and crying, wondering where she
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
A killer is not born. A killer is made. However, we are all born with the potential to kill, and any one of us can be made into a killer. It might take a lot to drive us to murder, but some people are simply more susceptible to the idea than others. People tend to believe that serial killers are mentally ill individuals, however, more often than not, they are rational beings who have suffered tremendously. Often, we cannot tell who is a serial killer. It could be the person standing next to you, and you would not have the slightest indication. Serial killers are shaped by isolation from their peers, neglect from loved ones or caregivers, and copious amounts of physical and psychological abuse as children.
Since I was little my favorite thing to watch on TV would be murder shows that where based on true stories. I would stay up all night watching these shows. Most of my friends found it weird but I felt like this is something that keeps me from being naïve to this world we live in. I was thirteen around the time. So by now I had watch almost a thousand murder shows and I thought I had heard it all. Well I was wrong. This is a story I would never forget. I remember it because it was hard for me to believe that something so horrendous could not only be committed by someone young but to innocent people.
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
Ever wondered if there is a serial killer in your community? The characteristics of a serial killer may shock you or be surprisingly familiar to some of you. It is important for society to get informed about the various types of serial killers that are out there. It is essential for families to educate their children about strangers, to be careful with everyone they encounter on the streets, store, and even in their neighborhoods. A serial killer is defined as a person who murders three or more people in at least three separate events, with a "cooling-off period" between the kills. The big question is, what makes a person do these atrocious killings? We will analyze personal histories, categorized serial killers,
Countless people, especially, criminologists have spent numerous hours researching serial killers since they are fascinating. Criminologists ' have high hopes of catching them before they kill, which is why they research them in such an in-depth way. Many people disagree as to what the definition of a serial murder. The FBI defines it as, “[t]he unlawful killing of two or more victims by the same offender(s), in separate events" (9). There is certainly not any dispute that there have been both male and female serial killers. Overall, there are not large amounts of female serial killers, therefore, there has not been as much research done about them; yet there are numerous documented cases of these killers. Male and female serial killers are
Serial killers are everyday people one would never notice until it was too late. They can be your neighbors or your coworkers, but what really is to wonder is what is it that made them commit such heinous acts. There is the long, talked about controversy of whether a person is born with genetics that make them be “born to kill”, or if the person has gone through experiences in their life that have made them lash out in murderous acts. Many psychologists will support the idea that the person’s environment plays a significant role in their psychological development. Psychologists give the ideas of a head injury, abuse, neglect, abandonment, or alcohol having damaging effects on the child as they develop. Other psychologists argue that people are born with genetics that lead them to lives of crime, including the acts of murder. These psychologists think that if a father or mother commits a crime then they end up passing that gene on to any or all of their children. They also believe that there are ways to categorize the types of people who will be serial killers or to have future generations who will be serial killers. There are also psychologists, though, who believe that a person is an equal mix of both genetic and environmental makeup that makes them the type of person they will become. Serial killers are not born to be bad; they are simply made bad because of events featuring abuse, neglect, and abandonment in their younger years which cause them to take out their anger later on in their lives.
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.
Brenna Courtemanche Professor Crombie ENC 1102 4 April 2014 The Mind of Serial Killers There is no specific manual or "how to" book to depict what a serial killer would potentially act or look like. It would be comforting if real-life serial killers were like those in the movies. If they were obviously masked like Jason on Friday the 13th, we would be aware whenever they approached. If they were introverted loners like Psycho's Norman Bates, they could not trick us so easily into their deviant plan.