How to make a serial killer out of children.

How to make a serial killer

They were born into this world as innocent children. They ended up as merciless killing machines. How to Make a Serial Killer leads the reader on an insightful, scary, and often disturbing investigation into what made these infamous murderers go bad. Is there really a "demon seed"? Do genes play a role? Was it their family background? How did peer group pressure influence them? Can it all be traced back to a shattering experience early in life? How to Make a Serial Killer follows the lives of these lost souls from early childhood to dark destiny and provides a fascinating look into the potential for disaster created by a violent and abusive upbringing. No matter what their crime they are still human, and this book explores the twisted workings of their destructive minds. How to Make a Serial Killer even explains how a sophisticated system of psychological profiling can potentially identify developing serial killers before they have begun to kill.

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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii

Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

Yep. Someone here, a long time ago, posted something along that order.

Came across a ##$^#$% 8 year old brat killing a rabbit with a sling shot. Little bastard would move the rabbit and nail it again. The woman who came across this f'ing child, (didn't know him from Adam) knocked on the moos door. Moo had a screaming hissy fit about her poor little bastard being yelled at by the woman. (The woman knew something about serial killers prediliction for animal cruelty early on.)( Given the reaction by the moron psychotic moo, I guess that was another one in the works.

two cents ¢¢

CERTIFIED HOSEHEAD!!!

people (especially women) do not give ONE DAMN about what they inflict on children and I defy anyone to prove me wrong

Dysfunctional relationships almost always have a child. The more dysfunctional, the more children.

The selfish wants of adults outweigh the needs of the child.

Some mistakes cannot be fixed, but some mistakes can be 'fixed'.

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. Leo J. Burke

Adoption agencies have strict criteria (usually). Breeders, whose combined IQ's would barely hit triple digits, have none.

I would have done more than yelled at the kid who was torturing the rabbit...

A while back I read "The Mind Hunter" by John Douglas (he advised for the Silence of the Lambs) and it was really good. He described some of the things that are common in a serial killer's childhood: frequent bed wetting, hurting animals, etc.

John Douglas is great- don't forget the early stage headwounds.

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...How to make a serial killer...

Attachment Parenting?

thats one


Fourteen Characteristics of a Serial Killer

Could you be raising a criminal? Acts of violence don't come out of nowhere, and every parent should be aware of the clues along the way. For the most violent of criminals, there are warning signs that often start in childhood. Below is a list of the 14 most common traits of serial killers.
1. Over 90 percent of serial killers are male.

2. They tend to be intelligent, with IQ's in the "bright normal" range.

3. They do poorly in school, have trouble holding down jobs, and often work as unskilled laborers.

4. They tend to come from markedly unstable families.

5. As children, they are abandoned by their fathers and raised by domineering mothers.

6. Their families often have criminal, psychiatric and alcoholic histories.

7. They hate their fathers and mothers.

8. They are commonly abused as children — psychologically, physically and sexually. Often the abuse is by a family member.

9. Many serial killers spend time in institutions as children and have records of early psychiatric problems.

10. They have high rates of suicide attempts.

11. From an early age, many are intensely interested in voyeurism, fetishism, and sado-masochistic pornography.

12. More than 60 percent of serial killers wet their beds beyond the age of 12.

13. Many serial killers are fascinated with fire starting.

14. They are involved with sadistic activity or tormenting small creatures.

Source: Internal Association of Forensic Science, an article written by FBI Special Agent Robert K. Ressler
"The Serial Killer," Harold Schechter

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I just post the stories, for interest.. for everyone

Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii

Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

As an aside, from reading lots of true crime, #4 comes up again and again. I wonder what it is about domineering moms that warp kids. True of Wisconsin's notorious Ed Gein, among many others.