Kassandra Cannon: Serial Killer

Serial Killer Whisperer by Pete Earley The Serial Killer Whisperer was a very well written book. It had many interesting facts about Tony Ciaglia and Serial Killers. I personally love how it takes you into the mind of the 15-year-old boy Tony, the minds of serial killers. I feel like the central point of this book is that Tony becomes fascinated with serial killers and then starts to ask the question can I be like them because of my TBI? When they begin writing each other you hear a lot of talk about how these killers believe, they are who they are because of either a mental illness or a brain injury, or because their parents did not love them enough, they were beaten or

Prabhdeep Singh ENG 102 Thomas Casey Analysis of Doe Season by David Michael Kaplan Doe season is a story about a nine year old girl Andy going hunting with her father, his father’s friend Charlie and his 11 year old son Mac. Although having a boyish nick name, her real name is Andrea. The narrator tells about her experience of seeing ocean for first time when they went to New Jersey Shore and that it frightened her, being huge and empty yet always moving. Her mother enjoying the ocean contrasts her experience and the ocean signifies adulthood and a child’s transition to a girl, which Andrea is afraid about.

Aileen Wuornos was an American serial killer who had killed seven men in Florida between 1989- 1990. The list of murders include an electronic store owner in Florida; his body was found in an isolated area, a construction worker; he was shot several times by her and his dead body was found along the highway, A 40 year old man who was a part time rodeo worker; he was shot nine times by her, A retired merchant seaman; his body was never found, A sausage salesman; he was shot twice before he died, A retired U.S. Air force major who was also former state child abuse investigator and former chief of police; he was shot six times in head and torso and her last murder was of a security guard and police reservist, his nearly nude body was found near

Case Study 1: BTK In 2005, serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as BTK (bind, torture, and kill), was arrested and convicted of murdering 10 people in Kansas between the years of 1974 and 1991. Rader sent numerous notes to the police, but they couldn’t prove for sure that he was the one committing the murders. In 2004, he began sending things to the police once again. However, this time Rader sent a document created in Microsoft Word on a floppy disk.

Mattie’s path, much different from David’s would result in the same outcome of becoming an adult. Sixty-eight years before David’s era, becoming an adult had a much harder reality then he experienced. Mattie now at this point was on a journey to avenge the wrongful death of her father. With the help of the toughest U.S marshal and Ranger Mattie would soon realize that becoming an adult was not for the weak. Going into this journey she needed to understand that it would be physically hard and emotionally hard.

The book by John Wyndham, The Chrysalids is a perfect example of how the existence of prejudice can have a negative impact on a society. In the novel, citizens are encouraged to behave the way society wants them to behave. Additionally, It can cause them to take actions that can lead them to violence. As well as, the characters are taught that being a certain way is correct and that can influence them on how they look at people and how they look at themselves.

Serial killers have significantly affected people’s lives for thousands of years however, we’ve only recently been getting an insight into why they commit these horrendous acts of violence. Many people have written it off as pure evil but there is more to these people that meets the eye. One famous serial killer was Joel Rifkin. Through many psychological tests and brain scans, researchers were able to learn more about his brain and the parts of it that did not function correctly. The defective or damaged parts of his brain had a large role to play in the murders he committed and even this information can help us identify dangerous behavior and possibly prevent the death of innocent people.

P. Maria Ponn Sindhuja II MA English Literature PG & Research Department of English Holy Cross College Trichy - 620002 Lizzie Borden- A Rebel Against Patriarchy In Sharon Pollock’s Blood Relations Sharon Pollock is considered one of Canada 's most respected dramatists. Her writing techniques are innovative. She works in multiple genres.

So, there I was, right after the awful slaughter that destroyed almost all I’d ever known, running away from my dead parents and my helpless, pathetic sister. Knowing her, she’d try to make friends with a serial killer, and end up dead. I knew that I’d have to help my stupid, too-cheerful sister, Lydia. And maybe, just maybe, I’d make it out alive.

The Native Americans are the indigenous tribes of American. Prior to Columbus visit America was already inhabited by the Native Americans. The Native Americans have long established their society, lived as hunter gatherer and practice matrilineal sytem. But with the arrivals of the Whites things started to change drastically and thereby penetrating into the Native Americans matriarchal cycle of life. Their long silences have given the Whites the opportunity to paint the Native women according to their imagination.

In James Knoll’s article Serial Murder: A Forensic Psychiatric Perspective, which was published in the Psychiatric Times, Knoll takes a more psychological look, into murders and breaking down the concept of it. Firstly, he breaks into society’s amazement with serial murders, showing that there and multiple books, movies, and television shows that center around that theme. Even though serial murders is completely terrifying to most of the society, it is very rare compared to other crimes. From the last six decades, victims of homicides that are female have decreased. In the circumstance of serial murders, there has been documentation of the events for centuries, even going back to the sixteenth century.

“Forgiveness doesn’t excuse their behavior. Forgiveness prevents their behavior from destroying your heart.” –unknown. I like this quote for this unit’s essential question because it shows that forgiveness is healing. Justice is usually sought out of anger.

These two names may have no meaning to some people, but to those in England these are the names of infamous murderers. Fred and Rose West are the sickest power couple on the east side of the Atlantic ocean, and have both been sentenced to jail once the information of their murderous deeds arose in 1992. They did not have an easy life what so ever, but is that really enough of a reason to commit murderous crimes? Our serial killers story began like any other, a child was born.

I went home and started my plan to find this person who framed me. I was ready to give up my everything to catch this one person who made my life horrible. I was trying to think of the best possible way to catch this person when I thought, I should just camp out by that old barn again. The killer has to come back at one point to either collect the body or meet his other henchman in the crime. I decided to pack a bag and get ready to stake out the old barn one more time.