As we all know 27 year old James Eagan Holmes opened fire in a crowded movie theater, Century 16, on July 20,2012. Holmes had over 700 rounds of ammunition with him, killing 12 and injuring 70. Not long ago, over 3 years after the shooting, on August 7th, Holmes was sentenced to 12 life sentences and 3,318 years without parole. Holmes was a former grad student.
James Riddle was born on 14th February 1913 in Brazil. He was the second born in a family of four children and was an athlete. He started working full time while still a teenager in a department store as a stock boy after quitting school at the ninth grade. In 1930, he started working in a warehouse as a freight handler. This provided a platform for his career.
Desmond Holmes came from a long line of aristocrats, however his distant relatives would most likely turn in their graves if they knew what had become of the clan. The family had fallen on hard times; they were poor. Not poor like the “unfortunate” citizens of Oftbrook, Virginia, whose hardship consisted mostly of not being able to eat out every night. The Holmes were outsiders, and none of them were particularly bright, especially Desmond. Being an outsider makes one a target, but who could be a shooter in small town Virginia?
Jeffrey Dahmer, also known as the “Milwaukee Cannibal”, was born May 21, 1960. His strange behaviors began in his youth and continued through his adulthood. Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. When Dahmer was a young child, he would go out and search for dead animals, and then dissect them at home.
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was an American serial killer who murdered 17 men and boys with the majority of the murders occurring in Milwaukee Wisconsin. His murders were acts of necrophilia, dismemberment and cannibalism. In 1991 Dahmer’s had started killing one victim a week. It was not until Dahmer was unable master his 18th victim, Tracy Edwards, that he was caught It was then that Dahmer’s deadly secrets were found and led police to uncover the murders through pictures and trophies kept by Dahmer.
James Holmes is one of the most recent serial killers to be caught and charged for what he had done. James killed 12 people and injured 70 others in mass shooting in movie theater in aurora colorado. People showed up to the movie theater expecting to watch the new batman but they got much more than they ever expected. The police station is only about a block away to the theater so the police did not take long to show up and they were able to take James down without having to kill or injure him.
Born on May 21, 1960, Jeffrey Dahmer was an American sex offender, cannibal and commonly known as a serial killer. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Joyce Dahmer and Lionel. According to sources, Jeffrey was a happy and energetic child until he was 4 years when he underwent a surgery that aimed at correcting a double hernia, which affect him afterwards (McEvoy C., (2023). Noticeably different, Jeffrey started becoming more withdrawn following his family frequently movements and the birth of his younger brother. As he grew up he became more disengaged, showed no interest in social interaction and was unfriendly.
Jeffrey Dahmer, a sex offender, and serial killer was charged and convicted of murdering 17 males between the years of 1978 and 1991. Dahmer was known to rape, dismemberment, and eventually indulge in consuming his victims through cannibalism. In his trial, Dahmer plead insanity due to his childhood upbringing and his uncontrollable impulses to killing. Jefferey Dahmer no doubt had a complicated childhood. His mother, Joyce Dahmer, suffered from severe depression and attempted suicide.
With the door being propped open, Holmes proceeded to his car where he had left his weapons of choice to carry out his plan. He put on Police SWAT gear, loaded up his guns, and walked back toward the theater. Before he entered he threw a canister of tear gas into the audience. This confused and shocked everyone in theater nine because many people thought it was a promotional stunt for the movie. “After both canisters explode, witnesses say he started shooting, first at the ceiling first and then at the crowd.”
Jeffrey Dahmer’s behaviors were “primary unconscious feelings of hate that he had channeled into a sadistic programmed destruction of 17 young men” (Jentzen et al. 2). Jeffrey Dahmer's neglected childhood featuring abuse, loneliness and lack of quality interactions with his parents led him to becoming a murderer/sociopath which is shown thorough the social learning theory and social control theory. Dahmer’s story is interesting because once he was arrested, he explained how he was glad to finally be caught. Dahmer’s murders were out of compulsion, as a young boy he used to walk around the woods looking for dead animals that he would dissect, he was really interested in seeing what was inside of them. “Although he was rarely interested in anything,
Jeffrey Dahmer, a famous serial killer who killed over seventeen people, died in prison while waiting out fifteen consecutive life sentences. Dahmer, one of America’s most notorious serial killers, had a difficult childhood that spiraled out of control and began an unhealthy obsession with killing animals as a young child that led to him becoming a murderous necrophiliac. Dahmer, who was born on May 21, 1960 had a relatively normal life until he was four. “He was described as an energetic and happy child until the age of four, when surgery to correct a double hernia seemed to effect a change in the boy” (Biography.com Editors). After the surgery he had little emotion and was an unhappy child most of the time.
“It’s a process, it doesn’t happen overnight . When you depersonalize another person and view them as just an object. An object for pleasure and not a living, breathing human being. It seems to make it easier to do things you shouldn’t do.” This quote was said by Jeffrey Dahmer, a mentally disturbed man who committed a series of murders, rapes, and tortures.
Danielle Amoils Psychology, Law, and Justice Track 7 April 14, 2016 James Holmes James Holmes was found guilty of killing twelve people and wounding seventy others in a mass shooting in an Aurora, Colorado theater on July 20, 2012. The incident occurred at a movie theater, while they were screening the 2012 Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises. James Holmes was arrested wearing a gas mask, a “body armor,” and died his hair red to look like “the Joker,” a popular Batman villain.
A serial killer can best be described as a person who commits a series or murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable behavior pattern. A disturbing fact about serial killers is that most of them should be eminently identifiable. Serial killers commit their acts specifically in one place, therefore, give the residents of the community, its police force, and even their neighbors ample opportunity to find out what they are. The fact they are not caught is attributed to three factors. The first being the characteristics of the victims, which in Jeffrey Dahmer's case he prayed mostly on gay men.
Is Sherlock Holmes doing what's best for the people of London or is he above the law in his own way? Throughout the stories and tales of Sherlock Holmes, the constant recurrence of catching the villain and solving the case is apparent throughout Holmes’s legend, but is he really doing anything to save the people of his city and stopping crime? Holmes’s mythos always starts with a crime seen through Dr. Watson’s eye, and we see the conclusion of the case through however the crime is never stopped before hand. Within the book, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The detective always uses the crime as a starting point to the mystery however he never prevents a life to be lost before the crime is committed.
