7 facts about mind of serial killing

Carlos Eduardo Robledo Puch was convicted on a smattering of charges,

inclduing 11 murders and one rape.
A chromosome abnormality seems to be the
most likely trigger for serial killers
A chromosome abnormality in serial killers begins to express itself during puberty,
Morrison said.
Serial killers, who are mostly men, develop and begin to display their homicidal tendencies
during puberty when that chromosomal abnormality expresses itself.
While researchers don't have an exact gene identity, the fact that serial killers are men leads
researchers to believe there is "a change associated with the male chromosome make up,"
Morrison said.
But researchers are still investigating how the gene changes and why it does.
Most serial killers also kill their first victim during those same teen years.









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Peter Woodcock killed three young children in Toronto between 1956 and 1957
But the desire to kill becomes ingrained
much earlier in life.

The most difficult thing to understand is how a baby develops into a serial killer, Morrison
said.
Statistically, there is no evidence that anything that happens in childhood turns people into
serial killers, meaning the tendency could be deeply ingrained.
In its early stages, a baby is happy to be passed around from person to person. But at a
certain point during the first of life, a baby develops attachment and becomes upset when
taken away from its primary caregiver.
That attachment is a baby's first awareness that it's a separate being dependent on other
people, Morrison said. Serial killers don't develop that feeling and don't see themselves as
part of the world.
"Your attachment is not there and attachment is really necessary for developing a full
psychology," Morrison said.


Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos raped and murdered 140 young boys
Because of their lack of development, serial
killers don't empathize with their victims


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Serial killers hunt in a variety of ways. But they never develop an emotional attachment to
their victims.
Where an enraged man might kill his wife's lover out of jealousy, serial killers feel no such
attachment to their victims.
"They have no appreciation for the absolute agony and terror and fear that the victim is
demonstrating," Morrison said. "They just see the object in front of them."
"A serial murderer has no feelings," she added. "Serial killers have no motives. They kill only
to kill an object."
The shocking thing is many of these men
have partners who are clueless.
In the course of her research, Morrison had the opportunity to interview serial killers' wives
as well.
And from what she could gather, none of these women consciously knew what was going on.
Or, they never questioned it.
John Wayne Gacy buried his victims under his house. But when Morrison asked Carol Hoff,
Gacy's wife, if she smelled anything, Carol said John said the smell was because of mice.
And Carol completely accepted his explanation.

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Robert Berdella, the Kansas City Butcher
Because they don't become attached to their
victims, serial killers are able to perform
experiments on those they've killed

Robert Berdella, the so-called Kansas City Butcher, raped, tortured and killed at least six
men between 1984 and 1987.
He experimented on his victims and kept scientific notebooks, Morrison said.
As part of his experiments, he poured Drano down victims' throats so they couldn't scream.
"I think its just like pulling the wings off a fly when you're a kid," Morrison said. "Just that
'let's see what happens.'"
Notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy also experimented on victims but showed
absolutely no emotion, Morrison said.
"The complete lack of humanity is more than just being a psychopath because at least the
psychopath has the capacity to express emotion," Morrison said.
But don't expect the women to take part in
the crimes, at least most of the time.
"No its not an equal opportunity kind of thing," Morrison said.
Serial killers are almost always men. Women may become a companion to the serial killer,
but they aren't the ones initiating the crimes.
And women companions taking part in the crimes is very rare, she said.
Serial killers' partners are often nearly-incomplete people whom the serial killers can bring
into the themselves.
"Whatever is missing in that woman is fulfilled by part of the serial killer," Morrison said.
These women take passivity to an extreme, and often exhibit a complete lack of
assertiveness.
However, the research on serial killers' partners is limited because often these women feel
they can't talk unless given permission by the serial killer.
While you might expect the men's partners
to know what's going on, serial killers aren't
easy to spot.
"One of the things is you cannot spot a serial killer by what they show you," Morrison said.
Serial killers can be very charming and charismatic. They aren't the psychopath running
down the street; they're the man next door.
"They're so completely ordinary," Morrison said. "That's what gets a lot of victims in
trouble."
Why would a woman open the door to an unknown man? It's because of that ordinariness.
Victims don't even remotely consider the fact that the serial killer can be just that, because
the killer seems so ordinary.