Part one of term paper
The murders are senseless. The killers are viscous. They could invoke a ritual of terror including rape, torture and eventually death. Death by strangulation, knifing and use of firearms. The usual prey includes women and boys, but everyone is vulnerable. The human culture has long been fascinated with the macabre, what is monstrous, ab ...

Part two of term paper
... monsters, demons and fiends. These psychopaths have also been called lust murderers, homicidal maniacs and stranger killers. According to Schechter and Everitt, “credit for the phrase ‘serial killer’ goes to Special Agent Robert K. Ressler” (70). Ressler was one of the pioneers of the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit. “While lecturing...one of the participants referred to ‘crimes in series’...Ressler began using a variation- ‘serial killers’...”(70). Murder has always been a p ...