Male serial killers

1
Male serial killers

• Make up 85 of serial killers
• Malignant narcissism
• Top locations
• CA
• FL, IL, NY, TX
• Commonly motivated by rejection/abandonment

2
Race and SM

• Originally conceived as all-white
• Wayne Williams
• Then killing along racial lines
• But this is no longer true
• Targets can include almost any group
• Main targets prostitutes, homeless, runaways,
  hitchhikers

3
Choosing Victims

• Victims tend to fall along sexual interest lines
• heterosexual killers choose women, homosexual
  choose men
• Choose victims who will not come to attention of
  police
• May stalk victims, and ascertain habits
• It is impossible to avoid targeting
• no useful self-defense tactics exist
• May use charm to gain access
• Blitz attack
• used more commonly by males with low social
  skills, speech impediment or other physical
  defect
• Can play upon the fears of victims
• less likely to target children or elderly than
  females

4
Lust murder

• More common for male than female offenders
• Murder occurring in context of sexual arousal
• torture of victim is sexually appealing
• sense of power enhances sexual thrill
• perceive crime as exotic sex act
• May find corpse to be sexually appealing
• timing of penetration gives clues to
  perpetrators view of self
• Murder is motivated by disposal
• removing the witness

5
Lust murder

• Murder may be part of sexual thrill or attempt to
  dispose of evidence
• Often have sexual difficulties with consenting
  women
• Post-mortem mutilation and necrophilia common
• Bizarre sexual acts
• Often have histories of sexually violent offending

6
General traits

• Tend to target strangers
• compartmentalization and dehumanization
• childhood signs and fascination with death
• More likely to use hands-on means of killing
• cutting instruments are most common
• Not a hard and fast rule
• Son of Sam
• Most have intact family structures, intact
  employment
• Kill for enjoyment, and probably are rarely
  caught

7
Data

• US Justice department estimates 100 active serial
  murders in US at any given time
• May account for 500-2000 deaths per year
• Most are neither identified nor caught
• Zodiac
• Linkage Blindness
• May keep souvenirs
• Most do NOT try to attract attention
• Not all male serial murderers kill for sex
• Mission oriented
• much more highly organized

8
Victims

• 70 of cases, victims are mainly strangers
• Typically physically weaker victims
• Some victims incapacitated
• Mysopeds
• Albert Fish
• 40 kill females only, 23 males only, 37 both
• Victim facilitation

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Understanding offender personality from the crime
scene

• Location type Indoor, Outdoor, etc.
• Point of Contact Primary Scene, Secondary Scene
• Method of Approach Con vs. Blitz
• Victim Resistance
• Nature and Sequence of sexual acts
• Antemortem, post-mortem, peri-mortem
• Removal of items from scene
• condition of body
• was body moved post-mortem
• if positioned, what is positioning meant to
  signify
• Verbal information, if available
• complements
• apologies
• intentional deceptions
• reassurance
• self-deprecation
• threats
• inquiries of pleasure
• confidence

10
Vampire of Sacramento

• Richard Chase
• Triad as child
• Drug/alcohol abuser
• Appeared to have paranoid schizophrenia
• Believed mother was poisoning him
• Someone stealing pulmonary artery
• Blended animals into paste
• Keep heart from shrinking

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Chase part 2

• Institutionalized in 1976 after injecting rabbit
  blood
• Kills all victims within 1 month
• Drive by shooting 1977
• January 1978
• Kills pregnant woman, rapes corpse
• Bathes in her blood, fills mouth with feces
• 2 days later buys, kills and eats 2 puppies

12
Chase part 3

• Jan 27, breaks into home with 4 people present
  including 22 month old and 6 year old
• Shoots all
• Raped womans corpse
• Consumed womans blood and mans brains
• Left behind prints and shoe imprints
• Took mans corpse, drank blood, consumed organs,
  disposed at local churce
• Quickly arrested and found guilty of 6 murders
• Committed suicide in prison

13
Mysopedia

• Often involve high emotional involvement
  (positive or negative)
• Oftentimes acting out of hatred of children
• Desire to defile innocence
• Children easier to overpower than adults

14
Javed Iqbal Mughal

• Lahore, Pakistan
• In 18 months (1998-1999) kills approx 100
  poor/homeless boys
• Drugged/raped/strangled them
• Used HCl to dispose of remains
• Kept some in vats
• Sentenced to hang
• Appears to have been murdered in prison