Serial killers are one of the most fascinating and morbid groups of people to study. Aserial killer as defined by Brian and Wilfred Gregg in The Encyclopedia of SerialKillers is someone who kills 3 or more people with sufficient time intervals between eachknown as a cooling off period. The style and motivation of the killings can vary greatly. I choose serial killers for this project because the idea of someone killing another humanbeing on numerous occasions seemed so out there, so fringe, it just had to be studied. Listen to this letter from one of this centuries most infamous serial killers DavidBerkowitz (1976-1977) AKA "Son of Sam." “I am deeply hurt by your calling me a weman-hater. I am not. But I am a monster. I amthe "son of Sam". I am a little brat. When father Sam gets drunk he gets mean. He beatsour family. Sometimes he ties me up to the back of the house. Other times he locks me inthe garage. Sam loves to drink blood. "Go out and kills" commands father Sam. Behindour house some rest. Mostly young - raped and slaughtered - their blood drained - justbones now. Pap Sam keeps me locked in the attic too. I can't get out but I look out theattick window and watch the world go by. I feel like an outsider. I am on a differentwavelength then everybody else - programmed to kill...... Mr. Borelli, sir, I don't want tokill any more. No sur, no more but I must, "honour thy father". I want to make love to theworld. I love people. I don't belong on earth. Return me to yahoos. To the people ofQueens, I love you. And I want to wish all of you a happy Easter. May God bless you inthis life and in the next. And for now I say goodbye and goodnight. Police: Let me hauntyou with these words: I'll be back. I'll be back. To be interrpreted as - bang, bang, bang,bang - ugh. Yours in murder, Mr. Monster.” This letter was found at the scene of one of his crimes. He went on to kill 5 more people,mostly in cars parked in lover's lanes. To...
