Serial Murderers and Their Victims (with CD-ROM)

by Hickey, Eric W.

• ISBN13: 9780534545697
• ISBN10: 0534545696
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-10
• 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.

Author Biography

Eric W. Hickey, earned a Ph.D. in social psychology from Brigham Young University and taught sociology and criminology course at West Georgia College and at Ball State University. In 1990 he became a member of the criminology department at California State University, Fresno, where he currently teaches criminal psychology, patterns in homicide, and sex crimes. Dr. Hickey also serves as an adjunct professor for Fresno City College and the California School of Professional Psychology

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Preface	xiii
Introduction	1	(36)
Serial Murder: Fact and Fiction	3	(3)
Numbers and Types of Mass Murders and Serial Killings in the United States	6	(11)
Profile 1.1 Columbine High School Massacre, 1999	8	(6)
Profile 1.2 Mark Barton, Portrait of a Mass Murderer, 1999	14	(3)
Defining Homicide, Murder, and Serial Murder	17	(3)
Typologies of Murder	20	(14)
Profile 1.3 Charles Albright, the Case of the Paraphilic Serial Killer, 1990-1991	29	(5)
Methodology Used in This Book	34	(3)
Cultural Development of Monsters, Demons, and Evil	37	(17)
Serial Murder, Cults, and the Occult	43	(2)
The Notion of Evil	45	(5)
Profile 2.1 Josef Mengele, 1911-1979	47	(3)
When Evil Embraces Good	50	(3)
Profile 2.2 Gerard Schaefer, Jr., Evil for Evil's Sake	50	(3)
When Good Embraces Evil	53	(1)
Biology and Psychology in Serial Murder	54	(34)
Psychobiology and Biochemical Theories of Violent Behavior	54	(5)
Profile 3.1 Arthur John Shawcross, 1972-1990	58	(1)
Insanity: What Is It?	59	(15)
Profile 3.2 Eric Smith	70	(4)
Constructing the Psychopath	74	(11)
Profile 3.3 Mr. Carter, a Psychopath Exposed	80	(5)
Interviewing Serial Murderers	85	(3)
Profile 3.4 Juan Cordoba	86	(2)
Social Construction of Serial Murder	88	(40)
Social Structure Theory	88	(1)
Social Class Theory	89	(1)
Social Process Theory	90	(2)
Neutralization Theory	92	(3)
Social Control Theory	95	(1)
Labeling Theory	96	(1)
The MacDonald Triad	97	(8)
Profile 4.1 Portrait of a Serial Arsonist and Pyromaniac	104	(1)
Etiology of Serial Killing	105	(1)
Trauma-Control Model of the Serial Killer	106	(11)
Profile 4.2 Jeffrey Dahmer, 1978-1991	112	(5)
Stalking	117	(8)
Signatures	125	(1)
Cyclical Nature of Serial Killing	125	(3)
Profile 4.3 Cary Stayner, the Yosemite Signature Killer, 1999	126	(2)
The Male Serial Murderer	128	(54)
Emergence of Male Serial Murderers	130	(3)
Myths of Serial Murder	133	(4)
Mobility and Victimization	137	(16)
Profile 5.1 Carlton Gary, 1977-1978	138	(2)
Profile 5.2 Traveling Serial Killers	140	(1)
Profile 5.3 Robert Joe Long, 1984	141	(2)
Profile 5.4 Donald Harvey, 1970-1987	143	(3)
Profile 5.5 Edmund Emil Kemper III, 1964-1973	146	(4)
Profile 5.6 Albert Henry DeSalvo, 1962-1964	150	(3)
Offenders' Backgrounds and Occupations	153	(6)
Profile 5.7 Robert Hansen, 1973-1983	155	(2)
Profile 5.8 Paul John Knowles, 1974	157	(2)
Disposition of Serial Killers	159	(1)
Men Who Kill Women: The Solo Killer	160	(1)
Lust Killers	161	(10)
Profile 5.9 Theodore Robert Bundy, 1973-1978	164	(5)
Profile 5.10 John Edward Robinson, the ``Slavemaster,'' 1984-2000	169	(1)
Profile 5.11 Jerry Brudos, 1968-1969	170	(1)
Men Who Kill Men: The Solo Killer	171	(4)
Profile 5.12 Randy Kraft, the Southern California Strangler, 1972-1983	172	(1)
Profile 5.13 John Wayne Gacy, 1972-1978	173	(2)
Men Who Kill Children	175	(2)
Profile 5.14 Herb Baumeister, 1980-1996	175	(1)
Profile 5.15 Wayne B. Williams, 1980-1981	176	(1)
Men Who Kill the Elderly	177	(1)
Men Who Kill Families	177	(1)
Men Who Kill Men and Women	178	(4)
Profile 5.16 Calvin Jackson, 1973-1974	178	(1)
Profile 5.17 James P.Watson, 1910-1920	179	(1)
Profile 5.18 David Richard Berkowitz, 1976-1977	180	(2)
Team Killers	182	(29)
Identifying Team Killers	183	(9)
Profile 6.1 Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, 1977-1978	185	(1)
Profile 6.2 Martha Beck and Ray Fernandez	186	(1)
Profile 6.3 Tene Bimbo Gypsy Clan, 1984-1994	187	(1)
Profile 6.4 Alton Coleman and Debra D. Brown, 1984	188	(2)
Profile 6.5 Douglas D. Clark and Carol A. Bundy, 1980	190	(2)
Occupations of Team Serial Killers	192	(1)
Team Killing and Mobility	193	(3)
Profile 6.6 Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Elwood Toole, 1976-1982	194	(2)
Ritualism, Cults, and Child Victims	196	(2)
Victim Selection	198	(4)
Profile 6.7 Robin Gecht, Edward Spreitzer, and Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis, 1981-1982	198	(4)
Methods and Motives	202	(1)
Offender History	203	(5)
Profile 6.8 Dean A. Corll David O. Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, 1970-1973	204	(2)
Profile 6.9 Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, 1983-1985	206	(2)
Disposition of Offenders	208	(3)
Profile 6.10 Gerald A. Gallego, Jr., and Charlene Gallego, 1978-1980	208	(3)
The Female Serial Murderer	211	(28)
Identifying Female Serial Murderers	211	(4)
Profile 7.1 Kristen Gilbert, 2000	214	(1)
Emergence of Female Serial Murderers	215	(5)
Profile 7.2 Aileen Carol Wuornos, 1989-1990	219	(1)
Victim Selection	220	(8)
Profile 7.3 Nannie Doss---the ``Giggling Grandma,'' 1925-1954	223	(3)
Profile 7.4 Terri Rachals, 1985-1986	226	(2)
Methods and Motives	228	(6)
Profile 7.5 Genene Jones, 1978-1982	230	(2)
Profile 7.6 Christine Falling, 1980-1982	232	(2)
Psychopathology of Female Offenders	234	(1)
Sentencing Female Offenders	235	(2)
Summary	237	(2)
Victims	239	(33)
Demographics of Victimization in Serial Murder	240	(12)
Victim Selection and Prostitutes	252	(1)
Victim Facilitation	253	(3)
Profile 8.1 The Prostitute Murders, California 2000-2001	254	(2)
Missing and Murdered Children	256	(10)
Protection and Prevention	266	(3)
Agencies for Missing, Murdered, and Exploited Children	269	(3)
Interviewing Serial Murderers	272	(17)
An Interview with a Male Serial Murderer	278	(11)
Serial Murder From a Global Perspective	289	(17)
Beyond Jack the Ripper	289	(3)
Profile 10.1 The Port Arthur Massacre, 1996	290	(1)
Profile 10.2 Jack the Ripper, 1888	291	(1)
Global Issues in Serial Murder	292	(4)
Profile 10.3 Dr. Harold F. Shipman, ``The Jekyll of Hyde,'' 1976-1998	293	(2)
Profile 10.4 Am Spiegelgrund Clinic, Lebensunwertes Leben, 1940-1945	295	(1)
Assessing Global Data on Serial Murder	296	(7)
Profile 10.5 Andrei Chikatilo, 1978-1990	301	(2)
The Gorby Study	303	(3)
Profiling, Apprehension, and Disposition of Serial Killers	306	(33)
Forensic Science	308	(2)
Profiling	310	(10)
Profile 11.1 Efren Saldivar, ``Angel of Death,'' 1988-1998	318	(2)
NCAVC and VICAP	320	(9)
Profile 11.2 Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, 1978-1996	324	(5)
Disposition	329	(7)
Closing Thoughts	336	(3)
References	339	(18)
Index	357