Persuasive Essay On Serial Killers

Of course as a society we condemn people for being serial killers. But what we forget is that there’s still a human being behind that thick shell. We as a society think that serial killers are horrible, so we put them on trial; we put them in jail, death row. But would you think of them any differently if it were father, your neighbor, or some one you went to school with? Robert Maudsley was a British serial killer born in Toxteth, United Kingdom. There are a few nicknames that you might know him as, some called him blue, then others began to know him as spoons but the one that stuck was Hannibal Cannibal. You are probably wondering how I got these nicknames. They called Maudsley blue because that was the color John Farrell’s face turned as he slowly strangled him, he was Robert Maudsley’s first victim

He eventually snuck into the cell of a 56 year old Bill Roberts and attacked him as he lay on his bunk, hacking at his skull with a knife that he made and then repeatedly bashed his head against the wall. After that he said he remembers calmly walked into the wing office, placed a serrated home made knife on the desk and informed the guards that they would be two short when it came to the next roll-call. They both deserved to die didn’t they? What if you were in a parking lot with no one around and this man tried to rape you? During Robert Maudsley’s last murder trial in 1979, he explained to the court that during his violent rages he truly believed that in his mind his victims truly were his parents. Maudsley’s lawyers even disputed that his killings were the result of pent up hostility resulting from a childhood of constant abuse. If Maudsley had killed his parents in 1970, none of these people would have been killed. Maudsley made this quote “If I would have killed them, then I would be walking around as a free man without a care in the world.” After this he was convicted of double murder, and was moved into solitary where he has stayed since his last