The Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of Violence by Donald Seaman, Wilson, Colin

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By Donald Seaman, Wilson, Colin

Because the variety of serial killers around the world has risen progressively - from the emergence of Jack the Ripper in 1888 to Harold Shipman and Ivan Milat, the backpacker killer of the Australian outback - the necessity to comprehend mass homicide is turning into extra pressing. utilizing privileged entry to the world's first nationwide Centre for the research of Violent Crime, Colin Wilson and Donald Seaman convey you this incisive learn of the psychology of serial killers and the reasons in the back of their crimes. From adolescence traumas to problems with frustration, worry and delusion, notice what turns a regular individual right into a compulsive killer.

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The strange motivation – or lack of it – led journalists to label the murder ‘the crime of the century’. In June 1949, a pretty nineteen-year-old brunette named Ruth Steinhagen checked into the Edgewater Beach hotel in Chicago, and sent a note to a man whom she had adored from afar for two years: baseball player Eddie Waitkus, the unmarried first baseman of the Phillies; she asked if she could see him briefly to tell him something of great importance. In her room, she pointed a rifle at him and shot him dead.

Crimes like these were regarded as the solitary aberrations of madmen, and scarcely came to the attention of the general public. The crimes of an American mass murderer named Herman Webster Mudgett, alias Henry Howard Holmes, should be noted as an exception. Holmes began as a confidence trickster, and in the late 1880s he built himself a large house in a Chicago suburb that would become known as ‘Murder Castle’. When Holmes was arrested in 1894 for involvement in a swindle, police soon came to suspect that he was responsible for the murder of an associate named Pitezel, and three of Pitezel’s children.

In nearby woods there was a colony of ‘hippies’, and one of these told the police about a twenty-four-year-old car mechanic named John Linley Frazier who had recently deserted his wife and moved into a shack near the village of Felton; it was approached by a kind of drawbridge across a deep ditch, and Frazier apparently drew this up every night. He had told other hippies that he had burgled the Ohtas’ house on an earlier occasion, and that they were ‘too materialistic’ and ought to be killed. Frazier was taken in for questioning, and his fingerprints on the Rolls-Royce established his guilt beyond all doubt.

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