"You cannot have [the] power for good without having [the] power for evil too. [And], even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heros, [besides what man was ever content with just one crime]." (Mitchell). In the past decade, an elusive creature has capture the attention of the American society as well as a few Eurpoean nations. In the twisted psychotic minds of the these individualistic creatures who murder constantly to appease their hunger, life, sex, pain and death are fashioned into a passion to kill. And, in this world other men and women of society were pawns or toys to be played with, terrorized, raped, violated, and murdered. Then when the creature has had its fun, their victims bodies will be casually tossed to the side, since it is no longer a means for pleasure or domination. But a souviner will keep a of the exploit, to remember always, wether it be a body part or a trinket. Some of them have been known to mock the authorities with deliberately placed clues and taunting letters. But why would some one do these horrible things? Tis a question that has plagued many, who have attempted to understand, the mind of a serial killers. A serial killer by definition is "someone who attacks, slays/murder more than three victims one by one, during a relativly short period of time in temporally unrelated incidents (having no relations and or in a different location each time), which does have some exceptions, as in the case of E. Kemper who killed his mother and her friend in the same incident (thus not meeting the criteria of geographical seperation and and eliminating only strangers, but he is still included). The word "Serial Killer" is a relatively new term but the crime it was coined for is not. There are few acts portrayed in modern literature on serial murder that are not reflected in the lives of historical figures such as Tiberius, Caligula, Vlad Tepes(Dracula) and Gilles de Rais (who supposedly tortured, raped and k...
