Irrested Serial Killers: Ted Kaczynski

The U.S postal system has been around since 1775, and it seems to be an effective and fast way to deliver packages and mail nationwide. People never think about opening their mail because they assume that it is safe to open and we seem to open it mindlessly and without thought. Yet in 1978, Theodore Kaczynski changed this, because of his education and his belief that technology would ruin the world, committed one of the most heinous acts of terror in history and he used the postal system to do it.

Ted Kaczynski, AKA the Unabomber, was born on May 22nd 1942, in Evergreen Park, Illinois. He had a mother and father who presumably only wanted him to do his best in school, and were very supportive of him and his endeavors there as well. Kaczynski was an academic superstar. By the time he reached the age of sixteen, he skipped two grades, and had entered Harvard University on a scholarship. In addition to that, he taught at the University of California at Berkeley. He was extremely intelligent, and had a good relationship with his parents. But, when you have an extremely intelligent person that has a grudge, and decides to snap, you have a potential killer. This is exactly what happened to Kaczynski. He tended to target his former place of employment, the University of California at Berkeley. Perhaps he had held a grudge against a fellow employee or didn’t agree with a recent decision of the company.

There are so many mentally ill people in correctional facilities because most families do not know how to help their loves ones who suffer from a mental illness, so the call the police for help. Majority of the police officers do not know what to do or how to handle people with a mental illness disease. Police officers who are not trained to deal with the mentally ill often do not recognize that person is ill. Some police officers do not recognize if the individual should or not go to jail or a treatment center or medical facility. The impact of law enforcement and the judicial system dealing with people with a mental illness is to assist the inmates with the help they need. Also, the correctional facilities help inmates with mental illness

The Zodiac Killer committed his murders between the late 1960s and early 1970s. The murders took place in California and were either committed by shooting or stabbing. The man committing the murders was never identified or found, but was described by witnesses who had escaped his attacks as short, beefy, and with light brown hair. The Zodiac killed five victims who were confirmed, and attempted two more but they survived. Although only seven victims were confirmed, he had confessed to 37 killings in letters he wrote to the press.

In many countries, an issue of serial killers has always been scrutinized and considered as extremely serious. The United States is not an exception. Recently, a number of serial killers on the US territory has been increasing remarkably (Criminology: The Essentials 2013, 115). There are many traditional methods aimed to identify this criminals such as examination of witnesses, search for suspect with a motive; however, these methods provide a limited success in comparison with other, new and nonconventional, method called ‘criminal profiling’. The criminal profiling is based on the deduction of specific evidentiary patterns, observation of physical evidence, and the extrapolation of those patterns into a detailed description of the behavioral

The first homemade bomb exploded at a university in Chicago in 1978. Although, not known as the Unabomber yet, his antics continued sporadically over the next seventeen years. In the FBI case file, it stated that along the way, he sowed fear and panic, even threatened to blow up airliners in flight. This home grown terrorist was the worst in American history. After reading this summary, you will have a clear understanding of the sheer terror that Theodore (Ted) Kaczynski cause for over a decade in America.

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, better known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or simply Jeffrey Dahmer was one of the most notorious serial killers of the twentieth century in the US. Dahmer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 21 1960, he grew up with his mother, father and brother. Dahmer was a seemingly happy child as an infant until the age of six when he had a hernia surgery. Following this surgery, he changed and became disconnected and uncommunicative. (about.com) 1968, there were allegations that he was molested by a neighbor-- though this was unreported at the time (maamodt). Damher was said to enjoy experimenting on and cutting open dead animals (mostly road kill) and insects. Throughout schooling days, he had very

Charles Manson is one of the most notorious cult leaders whose “family” carried out several murders in America in the late 1960’s. Even though he didn’t engage in any of the crimes, he still was considered America 's most popular serial killer. Manson gathered a group of followers who shared the same beliefs as him and four out of a hundred of them were involved in the infamous killing of Sharon Tate, Leno, and Rosemary

The serial killer that I am doing my report on is Jeffrey Dahmer. Jeffrey was born on May 21, 1960 and he had died on November 28, 1994. Jeffrey was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jeffrey was actually pretty normal up until the age of four. Jeffrey had to correct a double hernia which had caused a difference in his body and actions. By the time he hit his teenage years, he had very little to no friends, and was very tense acting with most things.

I Think that some of this serial killers are getting caught because some of them drag about what they did and they like the attention from the media as if it is a trophy. I agree with you there are some that are still coming up with ways get away with murdering there was case of the "Zodiac Killer" who was never caught and he would find ways to get away with murder he even wrote letters to the media explaining how much he enjoy killing people and all the satisfaction he was getting from killing.

Jeffrey Dahmer was an infamous serial killer and sex offender. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 21, 1960. Jeffrey Dahmer killed 17 men between 1978 and 1991. He was sentenced to 15 life terms, but was later murdered by an inmate in 1994. His murders included rape, dismemberment, necrophilia, and cannibalism. Since most of Dahmer’s victims were African American males, many people believed his acts had to do with racism.

Charles Manson was the creator, and leader of the “Manson Family” a cult that was formed during the late 1960s which included nearly one hundred active members. These members were made up of young adults from Manson’s neighborhood, and community, all of which shared the same beliefs and praised Charles believing he was a god. Manson along with the help of four of his most dedicated members, were responsible for the murders of the late actress Sharon Tate, and Leon LaBianca along with five others. Although the murders were committed the same day within a few hours of each other, he was considered to be a serial murderer.

First of all, do you know that what is offender profiling? Offender profiling has been defined by different authors using different terminologies such as specific profile analysis, psychological profiling, criminal profiling and criminal personality profiling. However, the underlying concept of definitions remains the same (Jackson and Bekerian, 1997). Beauregard, Lussier and Proulx (2005) state that offender profiling provides some descriptive information about behaviors and personality of an offender by analyzing crime scene characteristics, which can narrow suspects and finally solve the cases. Muller (2000) describes the information which the criminal profiler uses is often taken from the scene of crime, and profilers will take into account

Profiling is a method used by suggesting the offender’s personality and help to also determine the demographic characteristics of the suspect. When using the offender profile the officer or investigator must understand that this will not solve crimes. Profiling can also be used as a tool by investigators to help guide with what direction that the investigation may tend to go in (Hector, 2016). When using any type of information that may help to create information in profiling the investigator can look at how detailed the knot is tied. Also looking at what shape the victims clothes are in and making note to whether the clothes are torn, cut off and if the offender used any type of tools during the crime can also help in the profiling of the offender (Hector, 2016).

Criminal profiling is defined as an investigative and behavioral tool that is aimed at assisting those in the investigative field in profiling criminal offenders who are in most cases unknown. Criminal profiling goes by many names, such as: offender profiling, criminological profiling, criminal investigative analysis, criminal personality profiling and behavioral profiling. Criminal profilers are agents that study and analyze the behavior of an unknown criminal based on information that is gathered by his or her kills. The Federal Bareau of Investigation, or the Behavioral Analysis Unit rely on criminal profilers to provide psychological profiles of the offender. Technically, there is no official job title in the F.B.I called “criminal profiler.”