Serial Killer Essay

There are many trends that is in our society. One is that of the serial killer. Serial killer is a person who murders three or more people, commit murder for some sort of psychological benefit. The first documented serial killing occurred in 1886. In the year of 1990 to 2010 experts started to count the percentage of different race in serial killing. In US 52.1% serial killers were white, while 40.3% were black. In the other countries serial killing doesn’t change much, 56.2% were white and 30%black. Serial killers don’t always act alone either. In serial killing there are three main groups, individual, team, and organizational, this can include a terrorist group. H.H. considered as an individual serial killer, went trend for his way of killing.
One of the individual serial killers is Gary Ridgway who is known as the Green River serial killer. He plead guilty of killing 49 women over two decades. He was arrested in 2001. Gary was tested with an I.Q. of 82. When he was 16 years old he stabbed a six-year-old boy, however he then survived the attack. There are more than eight individual serial killers, and each of them killed more than 80 people. Most of the victims are female. Things that Motivate the serial killers are fear of someone leaving them, having sense of power, and their

One of America’s first know serial killer is H.H. Holmes “Beast of Chicago”. He confessed to murdered 28 but experts believe that he killed 200 people. Herman Webster Mudgett was born on May 16, 1861, in New Hampshire, also he was a medical school student. After Mudgett passed his medical exams, he moved to Chicago in 1885. When he made enough money, he began building the world’s fair hotel. He built rooms without windows, trapdoors, hidden passageways. Many of the young women’s who entered the building never left. Holmes was hung on May 7, 1896. Mudgett life has been in several books, including ‘’The Devil in the White