Patrick Kearney a standout amongst the most innovative serial killers in the United States history. Patrick Kearney otherwise called "Freeway Killer" is a homosexual necrophilia and brutal psychopathic pedophile and serial killer that is currently serving twenty-one life sentenced in a correctional facility situated in California (McDougal, 1991) in the wake of admitting to and being arraigned for preying and executing twenty-one males between the ages of 5 to 21 between the years of 1962 and 1977. The psychopathic serial killer stood 5 foot 5 inches, and supposedly had an IQ of 180. Kearney, a necrophile, used to pick up his victims in Los Angeles and Hollywood. He would become a close acquaintance with hitchhikers, troubled teenagers and …show more content…
Patrick Wayne Kearney the oldest of three children was conceived on September 24, 1939 in Los Angeles, California to George and Eunice Kearney in a truly stable household. Despite the fact that Kearney was frequently found being tormented at school in light of his physical features of being a weak young man who wore thick focal point glasses (McDougal, 1991). His guardians George and Eunice Kearney, who appeared, all in all, to be, from the outside looking in, a typical common laborers family. George Kearney was a cop with the Los Angeles Police Office, while his mom Eunice was a homemaker (Malocco, 2015). This was the standard lifestyle of various families in the midst of this day and age; the father working fulltime outside of the house and the mother being a homemaker managing the kids and everything that must be done at home. They were a resonable, genuine, and uncomplicated despite the fact that George was a strict drill sergeant because of the reality of population consisting of Hispanics and black gangs. Without a doubt, even still, to various others around them, this family, including Patrick Kearney, had all the earmarks of being a superior than normal and …show more content…
During that period David Hill would leave to try to pursue a heterosexual relationship with his wife Linda Gayle. David Hill wanted the ideal American dream family but he was in denial of his own sexuality but would shortly crawl back to Patrick Kearney. As time passed David and Patrick began to argue all the more regularly. About two years before he had moved in with Hill, in 1965, Kearney claimed to have committed his first murder in Orange, California of a male hitchhiker, however his initially affirmed kill happened after he had been living with Hill in Culver City, California, not too far from the home that he shared with Hill. Kearney was primarily a necrophile, according to the free dictionary a necrophile is also known as the human who derive on sexual gratification from fantasies or acts involving a corpse. Kearney was for the most part steady in the wat in which he murdered his victims and disposed of their remains. Kearney would essentially pick up male hitchhikers or homosexual men from gay bars and shoot them, usually in the temple, above the ear, with a .22-caliber derringer. A large portion of the victims were executed while asleep or preoccupied. After murdering them, he would take the bodies to a secluded place and engage in acts of necrophilia, then take them home, where they would be sodomized with X-Acto knives (Malocco, 2017). They were then
Jeffrey Dahmer Jeffrey Dahmer was a serial killer and cannibal born on May 21st, 1960 in Milwaukee Wisconsin. He was born to loving parents and later attended the Ohio State University. He had a minor surgery at the age of 6 to take care of a double hernia which appeared to have an effect on him as he became insecure of himself. His father got a new job forcing the family to move to Ohio leading to him becoming antisocial and detached from society. He was also homosexual and had to repress it due to his parents strong catholic beliefs.
THE TRAGIC MURDER OF PATRICK MALONEY On February 35th Patrick Maloney was horrifically murdered. His wife Mary Maloney reportedly had go the grocery store and when she had returned she found his lifeless body on the floor. After recovering from her shock, Mrs. Maloney called the police. Detectives O’Malley and Noonan showed up to the crime scene, where later more detectives, doctors and a photographer came to investigate and the body was carried away on a stretcher.
Patrick Kearney is a notorious serial killer who thrived in the 1960s and 70s throughout California. He was convicted of 21 murders, confessed to 7 more, and is believed by some to have had up to 43 victims. Most of Kearney's murders occurred in his car where he abruptly shot homosexual hitchhikers or men from gay bars in the head. Kearney, a necrophile, would proceed to dismember, mutilate, and rape the bodies of these innocent men
He gained the nickname of “The Freeway Killer” because he would leave his victims alongside freeways and ramps. Some of Bonin’s victims were, Thomas Lundgren (13) May 28, 1979, Mark Shelton (17) August 4, 1979, Markus Grabs (17) August 5, 1979, Donald Hyden (15) August 27, 1979, David Murillo (17) September 9, 1979, Robert Wirostek (18)September 17, 1979, John Doe (19-25 c.) November 29, 1979, Frank Dennis Fox (17) November 30, 1979, John Kilpatrick (15) December 10, 1979, Michael Mcdonald (16) January 1, 1980. His last known victim was Steven Wells (18) June 2, 1980.
In law, criminal profiling is used to determine and identify likely suspects and analyze their patterns to predict future offenses or victims. Profiling is one of the important tools used by the government to help in curbing the spread of criminal activities in a region. One of the most popular cases in the history that used this tool is the David Richard (son of Sam) case. David Richard is an American serial killer convicted of a series of shooting attacks in New York. Son of Sam as he is popularly known killed six victims and wounded seven others in the summer of 1977.
The Incident On May 20, 1998 Kip Kinkel got expelled from school for bringing a handgun on campus reported KVAL (Jennifer Winters). Kinkel was afraid of what his father, Bill Kinkel might say because kids at school were bullying him. On May 21, 1998 Kinkel killed his parents Bill and Faith Kinkel. Then the next day driving his mother’s car to Thurston High School, where he would enter the building wearing a trench coat filled with two guns, a rifle, a knife and more than 1,200 rounds of ammunition.
The Killer at Thurston High Summary: In September 1998, Kip Kinkel admitted to killing his guardians in their home on May 20, 1998 and the following day, strolling into the Thurston High School cafeteria and splashing understudies with 50 rounds from a self-loading rifle, killing two understudies, Ben Walker, 16, and Mikael Nickolauson, 17, and injuring 25 others. Kip was accused of four checks of bothered homicide and 26 tallies of exasperated endeavoured murder (for the 25 understudies he injured, in addition to his later ambush on a police investigator.) In November 1999, he was sentenced to over 111 years in jail, without a shot of parole.
Every Sunday Shawn would go to church, where he saw a girl he liked named Ellen O’Grady. The O’Grady family was rich and was not to be messed with, especially Ellen’s big brother Big Liam. Ellen lived with her brother Liam, as a housemaid and a cook. One day Big Liam was negotiating a deal with a woman named Kathy Carey.
George Hadley is a successful and prosperous man, authoritative husband, and an oblivious, unobservant, and emotionally absent father. “They walked down the hall of their soundproofed Happylife Home, which had cost them thirty thousand dollars installed, this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them” (Bradburry). With this quote, it is understood that although George Hadley had good intentions regarding the way he provided for his family, his materialistic nature and groundless expectations are what lead him to his death. The lack of stability, discipline, boundaries, and accountability that should be lead by a strong-willed yet compassionate father not only excused his childrens behavior, but encouraged it as well. As unfortunate as it is, George Hadley’s clouded judgement lead him to believe he was doing the right thing in giving his kids all that they desired and longed for without realizing that he was denying them everything that they truly needed, a
A sense of self is something Francie Nolan lacks in Brooklyn, New York. It is not because of a lack of love or female influence; she is impacted by the desires of females who have no opportunities in life because they are female. As Francie is about to graduate her teacher Miss Gardner advises her to burn her words about “poverty starvation and drunkenness” as they are “ugly subjects.” Her teacher wants her to write about the “''the true nobility of man'' and stick within the code of conduct. She goes on to explain that one does not write about the unspeakable aspects of society (Smith 315).
The picture of David Kirby laying in his deathbed is a very ironic photograph. David Kirby passed away in the early 1900 's due to AIDS ("David" 1). This picture that Therese Frare took was one of the most important photos of a individual with AIDS because it went public very fast (Cosgrove 1). The AIDS epidemic is looked at very different now than is was in the 1990 's. A lot of people were unaware of the damage aid can do on a human being. David Kirby passed away in Ohio in the early 1990 's ("David" 1).
In this paper I will be applying the psychological theories to serial killer Ed Gein. Ed Gein was a prolific serial killer in the 1950’s. He murdered and robbed graves for body parts to make furniture and clothing. He was apprehended in 1957, where he stood trial and was institutionalized. Edward Theodore “Ed” Gein was born August 27th, 1906 to George and Augusta Gein.
Throughout the year of 1974 to 1975 an African American male suspected to be between the years of 19 to 22 years, tall, slim and between 5’10’’ and 6 feet. In bloody year, the African American male scouts the San Francisco area looking for gay males. It is believed that his MO was homosexuals, he then doodles his victims (this it is how he got his name The Doodler or The Black Doodler) that he is interested in and stalks, harass and even rapes his victims before he kill them. Investigators noticed that all of the victims that were murdered all had stabbed wounds. Through just one year, the African American male killed over 14 men and assaulted 3.
Ted Bundy was a notorious serial murderer who’s reign of terror lasted from 1974 to 1978. Bundy was convicted of three homicides and was sentenced to death for all three charges. However, at the time of his execution, Bundy confessed to 30 murders however the exact number of victims is still unknown. Bundy’s crimes evolved over time but he was both a sexual sadist and a necrophiliac serial killer. At the beginning of his rampage, Bundy would sneak into the victims house in the middle of the night, violently attack them while they were sleeping with a blunt object and then Bundy would usually sexually assault them.
Uncovering the Mystery of the Zodiac Killer By: Shreenidhi Subramanian The infamous and curious American serial killer also named The Zodiac Killer was known for his brutal murders in northern California between 1968 and 1969. In the late 1960s, San Francisco was struck by the infamous Zodiac Killer, who went on a brutal murder spree that shocked the entire city. The Zodiac Killer, who is known for at least five confirmed murders, insulted the public and the police with complex letters to the local newspaper, which increased the sense of anxiety and mystery related to his horrific acts. Despite attempts by the authorities to catch him, he was never caught and claimed to have murdered 37 people.