For each type of murderer there are motives that provoke them to kill their victims, part of the reason of why they do it is because they are not mentally ill, but seek revenge. “Andrew Kehoe was a farmer living in Bath, Michigan. A member of the school board and the town clerk, on May 18, 1927 he orchestrated a plot to dynamite the Bath Consolidated School, killing thirty-seven children”(“Andrew Kehoe ”). The motive that made Andrew do this was revenge. The reason was because tax collectors were going to foreclose on his farm. There are more murderers that killed for revenge like George Jo Hannard in Killen, Texas. George shot people inside of a cafeteria, and Adam Lanza and the Sandy Hook shooting took place in an elementary school. Michael
Jeffrey Dahmer’s Motivation to Murder Jeffrey Dahmer is a well known serial killer, he killed nearly 17 men and boys in Milwaukee and Ohio. He was known as the Milwaukee Cannibal for he committed rape, murder, and dismemberment of his victims. It’s seemed to believed he was antisocial and had many other mental illnesses. He also had a troubled youth with a bad home life. Dahmer was arrested and convicted for the violent crimes he commited.
A woman who smothered a dying fellow churchgoer with a pillow despite her victim’s opposition to euthanasia has been jailed for life with a minimum term of nine years for his murder. Cancer patient David Paterson, 81, was close to a natural death when he was suffocated by Heather Davidson, 54, in the bedroom of his care home in North Yorkshire on 11 February. About two hours earlier she had called Macmillan Cancer Support to ask whether smothering her friend would make her a murderer. She claimed it was a mercy killing, but she acted unilaterally without thinking about what Paterson wanted or the views of family and staff, Teesside crown court heard.
Jeffery Dahmer, Son of Sam, BTK, and Ted Bundy in their youths tortured and killed animals and had vivid fantasies of murder. For this post, the factors that caused Edmund Kemper to kill will be examined.
Sara Whobrey Professor McCrady English 102 24 January, 2023 The Psychopathy Behind the Columbine Killer, Eric Harris Psychopaths are people who are born unable to feel a strong emotion of humans, empathy. Empathy is the ability to understand and feel for others and their feelings. Lack of empathy is only one trait of a psychopath. According to Crego and Widiger, the trait most attributed to psychopathy are antagonism, manipulativeness, dishonesty, and callousness. (Crego and Widiger 1.)
Murder; What exactly possesses one to commit such a heinous crime? How do we bring ourselves to harm our fellow man? What forces could possibly be at play to twist one’s mental psyche? Fear, anger, disasters, depression to hit the nail on the coffin so to speak. The story that I am going to unfold is one explaining such atrocities, our tale begins around the 1930’s on a seemingly peaceful farmland in Oklahoma.
He felt that since attempting to commit suicide was not working out for his, that his actions of murdering would help relieve some of the stress off of him. He was diagnosed with many things that reflected his childhood. He was first diagnosed with major depression, which came about around his young age of seven. He began with alcohol dependence when he was of legal age to drink. This led to an even stronger depression drive.
When a person murders they know what they are doing and killing the teacher for the inarticulate reason that the
Murder is an unforgivable and unthinkable crime. On May of 1924, two young boys kidnapped and murdered 14 year old Bobby Franks by asphyxiation and repeated blunt force trauma to the head. It was a ruthless killing. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were the first known people to murder for thrill, causing nationwide terror during The Great Depression.
Mass murderers and serial killers are nothing new to today’s society. We learn about them in TV shows, books, research papers, in our classes, etc. Psychologists have spent decades trying to uncover the truth behind these killers’ madness. Serial killers vary in their behaviors, techniques, desires, mental illnesses and their personal lives. Have you ever heard of the Tamiami Trail Killer?
Motivations for multiple murder, according to Fox and Levin, are power, revenge, loyalty, profit, and terror. Several cases of serial murder seem to derive from need to have control over a victim and gain a certain control over them. Power motivated killings tend to entice serial killers because of the thrill the kill gives them. This type of motivation compares to the control and mission-oriented origins stated by Dr. Dalal. Although most cases of power motivated murders are based solely around sexual acts, a significant number of homicides are based around “playing God” (Fox and Levin 21).
An inconceivable event or a dominant figure has elicited these deadly urges and murderous emotions within the individual (Innes 6). Therefore, the creation of serial killers is not only due to their genetic makeup but also due to their upbringing and traumatic experiences; serial killers are influenced by both nature and nurture. They are a product of the environment that surrounds
Mass murders set out to kill a large number of people, typically at the same time in a single location. More often than not, mass murders are killed themselves by either law enforcement or self inflicted wounds. Turvey discusses five categories of motivation that apply to mass murders, they include motivations of power, revenge, loyalty, terror and profit (2012). The power-oriented mass killer thrives on power and control.
It could be some reactions to their problems. Psychological issues are including mental illness, stress, and other things. For example, a person who raised without a father for some reason or lost one of the family member or any other reason may use their pain to hurt others too. Probably they wanted others to feel the same way they did or even they tried to squeeze themselves at some point, not forgetting to mention that is something in their brain. According to the article that titled "What Would We Find Wrong in the Brain of a Serial Killer?" by Jack Pemment.
Another reason people murder is related to gang violence. Gang leaders try to recruit people who are willing to do anything for the gang. Young people join gang to get a self-purpose, and a respect from other friends. When gangs have confrontations with each other, they try to kill one another. This can be due to turf disputes, revenge of a fallen gang member, or reputation build up.
First one reason people have the urge to kill another human is simply to get back at them. In the movie Patriot, Mel Gibson watch his son get murder in front of him, and he couldn’t do anything about it during the situation he was in. He had to wait until end of the war to get revenge for his son’s death. People always find it