Serial Killers Case Study

Main part The series is about the FBI consultant Will Graham, who together with Jack Crawford and his team hunts down serial killers, especially the Chesapeake ripper. Will Graham have a special ability to have pure empathy and a vivid imagination, which grants him the ability to understand every type of murderers. The downside with these abilities is he slowly becomes frenzied. Throughout season one, Will creates a strong bond with the psychologist Hannibal Lecter.

CHAPTER IV DEFENSE MECHANISM IN “HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER SEASON 1” 4.1. Intrinsic Aspect 4.1.1. Theme How to Get Away with Murder is an American televison series that portrayed an unpleasant experience of Annalise Keating, Keating’s five, Bonnie and Frank. The theme of this tv series can be seen in the title which is How to Get Away with Murder. HGAM mostly tells us about how people that I have mentioned before have to face the reality and have to escape from murder that connects with them.

Looking into the minds of serial killers is a tricky task, a couple questions to start with are questions such as what is a Serial killer? According to the FBI’s version of the definition, a serial killer is conventionally defined as a person who murders three or more people in a period of over a month, with “cooling down” time between murders. “For a serial killer, the murders must be separate events, which are most often driven by a psychological thrill or pleasure. Serial killers often lack empathy and guilt, and most often become egocentric individuals; these characteristics classify certain serial killers as psychopaths.” (crime museum editors, 2017).

He has also addressed the theme of death. This notable subject is evident in most of his works such as “The Tale-A-Tell” and “The Black Cat.” While Montresor has revealed to the readers how he murdered Fortunato, the motive behind the murder has remained a mystery. He does not mention the reason that propelled him to develop the inhuman plot to murder his friend. The paper seeks to develop meaningful assumptions that might have influenced Monstresor to commit the murder.

This unreliable narrator technique is used by Poe to create tension in the story, as the reader is unsure of the intensions of the murderer. The technique also helps the story explore the theme of murder, as an unreliable madman is generally more likely to commit these crimes. The Landlady uses vastly different techniques to convey the themes of murder. In The

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Cold Case Closure by Patrick Ian O’Donnell and Charles O. Gaylor is touted as a police procedural novel, and deals with a number of fictional cold murder cases. It is a standalone novel and falls into the general fiction/detective thriller category. Grant Frazier is a retired Cold Case Crime Taskforce member, as well as having previously worked for the LAPD. During his time in law enforcement he has seen far too many people get away with murder due to lack of evidence or credible witnesses. With the death of his wife, and the fact that he is no longer active in law enforcement, Grant goes off to mete out his own brand of justice to the cases he feels most aggrieved about not having been solved.

The FBI defines serial killing as "a series of three or more murders, committed as separate events, usually, but not always, by one offender acting alone". The “separate events” part is what makes serial killing different than spree killing and mass killing. Another thing that makes serial killers stand out is that they often demonstrate specific patterns that can be easily identified by police investigators. It was often debated that those patterns are products of either their genetics, or their environment. We now know that both are important to the development of all people, so now people argue which one is more important, especially when it comes to serial killers.

The films in focus proceed in a series of events, like traditional crime fiction the narrative goes from the discovery of a crime, following a detective and their investigation and finally the criminal being brought to justice. Although Twin Peaks’ ending is open to interpretation as a conclusive and satisfying ending, when comparing it to that of a straight forward crime fiction narrative. The detective versus the criminal is another archetypal element that both of these films exhibit. Frank Booth and makeshift detective Jeffrey Beaumont are the detective and criminal in Blue Velvet, with Special Agent Dale Cooper and Sheriff Harry S. Truman against ‘BOB’ in Twin Peaks. The detective versus the criminal is one of the most basic archetypes of crime

J.S. Dalal. Serial killers tend to fall into four different categories that help to explain the nature of their crimes, which branch into their origins. There are four types of serial killer: visionary, mission-oriented, hedonistic, and control-oriented. A visionary tends to commit crimes based on psychotic delusion, like murder because of voices in their head telling them to do so (Dalal 110-111). Mission-oriented killers have a certain goal with overwhelming feelings that it is their duty to kill a certain type of person like a homosexual or prostitute to “clean up” society (Dalal 111).

Racial or any profiling compiles behavioral characteristics associated with particular criminal actions, creating an original form of a yet unknown people who might be more likely than others to perpetrate the crime. The serial killer profiling was generated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which use crime scene evidence that implies the character of the perpetrator and helps narrow the scope of analysis. It was based on lengthy interviews with 33 convicted killers, an actual grounding like to the drug carrier sketch of Operation Pipeline (below). Racial profiling results when a complicated set of factors (which can include race) including a particular criminal profile are torn away in practice, transformed into an unjustified reduction: “Minorities are more prone to have drugs or commit additional crimes than are whites.”

Though these two movies each one is a dramatization of mob life, the other is centered on two ex-convicts. This paper allows the reader to examine the similarities and contrast.

Not all serial murderers kill for the same reason or in the same way, a lot of them leave behind a “signature” which is something that a killer leaves at a crime scene, or does to a person, that signals that this is them who committed the crime, and often is done to play out a fantasy that the killer has. Along with the special “signature,” not all killers kill for the same reasons, there are types and labels for different types of serial killers, such as: psychopathic sexual sadists, crime spree killers, mission serial killer, and many more (Miller, Serial Killers: I. Subtypes, Patterns, and Motives,

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.”

Offender profiling is used by focusing on all the aspects of the crime. They investigate the nature of the crime, the scene and how the crime was committed. The goal of this type of profiling is to provide investigators with an idea of the personality of the suspect. This method of profiling has in part been effective. By suing this type of profiling methods, investigators were able to arrest the responsible for the individual that terrorized New York from 1940 to 1956, The Mad Bomber.