Serial Murderers And Their Victims

by Hickey, Eric W.

• ISBN13: 9780534630188
• ISBN10: 0534630189
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-03
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This text provides an in-depth, scholarly, and broad-based examination of serial murderers and their victims. The coverage is supported by extensive data and research, and it profiles some of the most prominent murderers of our time. Author Eric Hickey examines the lives of over 400 serial murderers, analyzing the cultural, historical, and religious factors that influence our myths and stereotypes of these individuals. He then describes the biological, psychological, and sociological reasons for serial murder, offering his own Trauma-Control model for explaining serial murder behavior.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
Preface	xvi
Introduction: The Phenomenon of Serial Murder	1	(41)
Serial Murder: Fact and Fiction	3	(3)
Numbers and Types of Mass Murders and Serial Killings in the United States	6	(2)
Mass Murderer Classifications	8	(10)
Profile 1.1 Columbine High School Massacre, 1999	9	(6)
Profile 1.2 Mark Barton, Portrait of a Mass Murderer, 1999	15	(1)
Differences among Mass, Serial, and Spree Murderers	16	(2)
Defining Homicide, Murder, and Serial Murder	18	(5)
Profile 1.3 Gary Leon Ridgway, the Green River Killer, 1982--1998	20	(3)
Typologies of Murder	23	(2)
Sexual Homicides, Paraphilia, and Other Sexual Behaviors	25	(14)
Profile 1.4 Armin Meiwes, the German Cannibal, 2001	28	(5)
Serial Murder Typologies	33	(1)
Profile 1.5 Charles Albright, the Case of the Paraphilic Serial Killer, 1990--1991	34	(5)
Methodology Used in This Book	39	(3)
Cultural Development of Monsters, Demons, and Evil	42	(17)
Serial Murder, Cults, and the Occult	47	(3)
The Notion of Evil	50	(6)
Profile 2.1 Josef Mengele, 1911--1979	52	(2)
Profile 2.2 Gerard Schaefer, Jr., Evil for Evil's Sake, 1972--1973	54	(2)
When Evil Embraces Good	56	(1)
When Good Embraces Evil	57	(2)
Biology and Psychology in Serial Murder	59	(36)
Psychobiology and Biochemical Theories of Violent Behavior	59	(5)
Profile 3.1 Arthur John Shawcross, 1972--1990	62	(2)
Insanity: What Is It?	64	(16)
The M'Naughten Rule	66	(1)
The Brawner Rule	66	(1)
The Durham Rule	66	(1)
Incompetency	67	(1)
Mental Disorders and Personality Disorders	67	(2)
Dissociative Disorders	69	(4)
Psychoanalytic Factors	73	(3)
Profile 3.2 Eric Smith, 1993	76	(1)
Personality Disorders	77	(2)
Asperger's Disorder and the DSM-IV	79	(1)
Constructing the Psychopath	80	(11)
Differentiating the Sociopath, Psychopath, and Primary Psychopath	81	(1)
Measuring Criminal Psychopathy	82	(4)
Profile 3.3 Mr. Carter, a Psychopath Exposed	86	(5)
Interviewing Serial Murderers	91	(4)
Profile 3.4 Juan Cordoba	92	(3)
Social Construction of Serial Murder	95	(38)
Social Structure Theory	95	(1)
Social Class Theory	96	(1)
Social Process Theory	97	(2)
Neutralization Theory	99	(3)
Social Control Theory	102	(1)
Labeling Theory	103	(1)
The MacDonald Triad	104	(8)
Animal Cruelty	106	(2)
Enuresis	108	(1)
Fire-Setting	109	(2)
Profile 4.1 Portrait of a Serial Arsonist and Pyromaniac	111	(1)
Etiology of Serial Killing	112	(1)
Trauma-Control Model of the Serial Killer	113	(11)
Facilitators	117	(2)
Profile 4.2 Jeffrey Dahmer, 1978--1991	119	(1)
Fantasy	120	(4)
Stalking	124	(8)
Domestic Stalking	126	(1)
Stranger Stalking	127	(1)
Factitious Stalking	128	(1)
Site and Nonsite Stalking	128	(1)
Cyberstalking	129	(1)
Stalking Fantasy	130	(2)
Cyclical Nature of Serial Killing	132	(1)
The Male Serial Murderer	133	(59)
Emergence of Male Serial Murderers	135	(3)
Myths of Serial Murder	138	(3)
African American Serial Killers	141	(7)
Profile 5.1 Wayne B. Williams, 1980--1981	142	(2)
Profile 5.2 Henry Louis Wallace, 1992--1994	144	(2)
Profile 5.3 Carlton Gary, 1977--1978	146	(2)
Profile 5.4 Calvin Jackson, 1973--1974	148	(1)
Mobility and Victimization	148	(4)
Profile 5.5 Three Traveling Serial Killers	150	(1)
Profile 5.6 Robert Joe Long, 1984	151	(1)
Victims	152	(8)
Profile 5.7 Donald Harvey, 1970--1987	153	(2)
Profile 5.8 Edmund Emil Kemper III, 1964--1973	155	(5)
Profile 5.9 Albert Henry DeSalvo, 1962--1964	160	(1)
Offenders' Backgrounds and Occupations	160	(9)
Profile 5.10 Robert Hansen, 1973--1983	165	(2)
Profile 5.11 Paul John Knowles, 1974	167	(2)
Disposition of Serial Killers	169	(1)
Men Who Kill Women: The Solo Killer	170	(1)
Lust Killers	171	(10)
Profile 5.12 Theodore Robert Bundy, 1973--1978	173	(5)
Paraphilia Classifications	178	(1)
Profile 5.13 John Edward Robinson, the ``Slavemaster,'' 1984--2000	179	(1)
Profile 5.14 Jerry Brudos, 1968--1969	180	(1)
Men Who Kill Men: Homosexual Serial Killers and Their Victims	181	(3)
Profile 5.15 Randy Kraft, the Southern California Strangler, 1972--1983	184	(1)
Men Who Kill Children	184	(3)
Profile 5.16 John Wayne Gacy, 1972--1978	185	(2)
Profile 5.17 Herb Baumeister, 1980--1996	187	(1)
Men Who Kill the Elderly	187	(1)
Men Who Kill Families	188	(1)
Men Who Kill Men and Women	188	(4)
Profile 5.18 James P. Watson, 1910--1920	189	(1)
Profile 5.19 David Richard Berkowitz, 1976--1977	190	(2)
Team Killers	192	(28)
Identifying Team Killers	193	(8)
Females as Masterminds in Serial-Murder Relationships	194	(1)
Profile 6.1 Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, 1977--1978	195	(1)
Profile 6.2 Martha Beck and Ray Fernandez	196	(1)
Profile 6.3 Tene Bimbo Gypsy Clan, 1984--1994	197	(1)
Males as Masterminds in Serial-Murder Relationships	197	(1)
Profile 6.4 Alton Coleman and Debra D. Brown, 1984	198	(2)
Profile 6.5 Douglas D. Clark and Carol A. Bundy, 1980	200	(1)
Occupations of Team Serial Killers	201	(1)
Team Killing and Mobility	202	(2)
Profile 6.6 Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Elwood Toole, 1976--1982	204	(1)
Ritualism, Cults, and Child Victims	204	(3)
Victim Selection	207	(5)
Profile 6.7 Robin Gecht, Edward Spreitzer, and Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis, 1981--1982	208	(4)
Methods and Motives	212	(1)
Offender History	212	(4)
Profile 6.8 Dean A. Corll, David O. Brooks, and Elmer Wayne Henley, 1970--1973	214	(2)
Profile 6.9 Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, 1983--1985	216	(1)
Disposition of Offenders	216	(4)
Profile 6.10 Gerald A. Gallego, Jr., and Charlene Gallego, 1978--1980	218	(2)
The Female Serial Murderer	220	(27)
Identifying Female Serial Murderers	220	(4)
Profile 7.1 Kristen Gilbert, 2000	223	(1)
Emergence of Female Serial Murderers	224	(3)
Victim Selection	227	(6)
Profile 7.2 Aileen Carol Wuornos, 1989--1990	228	(4)
Profile 7.3 Nannie Doss---the ``Giggling Grandma,'' 1925--1954	232	(1)
Methods and Motives	233	(9)
Profile 7.4 Terri Rachals, 1985--1986	235	(3)
Profile 7.5 Genene Jones, 1978--1982	238	(3)
Profile 7.6 Christine Falling, 1980--1982	241	(1)
Psychopathology of Female Offenders	242	(1)
Sentencing Female Offenders	243	(2)
Summary	245	(2)
Victims	247	(26)
Demographics of Victimization in Serial Murder	249	(9)
Victim Selection and Prostitutes	258	(2)
Victim Facilitation	260	(3)
Profile 8.1 The Prostitute Murders, California, 2000--2001	261	(2)
Missing and Murdered Children	263	(8)
Children as Victims of Serial Murderers	265	(3)
Luring Children	268	(3)
Agencies for Missing, Murdered, and Exploited Children	271	(2)
Interviewing Serial Murderers	273	(17)
An Interview with a Male Serial Murderer	279	(11)
Serial Killer Reflections	288	(2)
Serial Murder from a Global Perspective	290	(19)
Beyond Jack the Ripper	290	(1)
Profile 10.1 The Port Arthur Massacre, 1996	291	(1)
Global Issues in Serial Murder	291	(5)
Profile 10.2 Jack the Ripper, 1888	292	(1)
German Serial Killers	292	(2)
Profile 10.3 Dr. Harold F. Shipman, ``The Jekyll of Hyde,'' 1976--1998	294	(2)
Profile 10.4 Am Spiegelgrund Klinik, Lebensunwertes Leben, 1940--1945	296	(1)
Assessing Global Data on Serial Murder	296	(10)
Profile 10.5 Clifford Robert Olson, 1980--1981	302	(1)
Profile 10.6 Robert ``Willy'' Pickton, Operator of the Piggy Palace Good Times Society, 1983--2002	303	(1)
Profile 10.7 Andrei Chikatilo, 1978--1990	304	(2)
The Gorby Study	306	(3)
Serial Murder in Japan and South Africa	309	(16)
Serial Murder in Japan: The Aki Study	309	(8)
Victims and Duration	313	(1)
Mobility	314	(1)
Age and Gender	314	(1)
Team Killers	315	(1)
Methods and Motives	315	(1)
Sexual Activities	316	(1)
Profile 11.1 Kau Kobayashi, 1952--1960	317	(1)
Serial Murder in South Africa	317	(8)
The Investigative Psychology Unit of the Serious and Violent Crimes Component of Detective Services Head Office, Pretoria, South Africa	317	(3)
Profile 11.2 Stewart Wilken, 1990--1997	320	(2)
Muti Murders in South Africa	322	(3)
Profiling, Apprehension, and Disposition of Serial Killers	325	(41)
Forensic Science	327	(2)
Profiling	329	(7)
Types of Profiling	330	(6)
Profile 12.1 Cary Stayner, the Yosemite Signature Killer, 1999	336	(1)
Signatures of Violent Offenders	336	(11)
Problems in Profiling	339	(1)
Profile 12.2 John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo, the D. C. Snipers, 2002	340	(4)
Care Providers and Serial Murder	344	(1)
Profile 12.3 Efren Saldivar, ``Angel of Death,'' 1988--1998	345	(2)
NCAVC and VICAP	347	(9)
The University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Center: The Body Farm	350	(1)
The Hunt for the Unabomber	351	(1)
Unsolved Murder Cases	351	(1)
Profile 12.4 Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, 1978--1996	352	(4)
Disposition	356	(7)
Sentencing	356	(1)
Capital Punishment	357	(4)
Treatment	361	(2)
Further Issues and Research	363	(1)
Closing Thoughts	363	(3)
References	366	(18)
Index	384