Serial killers

[SewingDeb]

I have read some research over the years concerning genetics and criminals. I'm looking for some good links and this one looks promising (though I have not yet read it):

http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/lcp/articles/lcp69dwinterspring2006p259.htm

BEHAVIORAL GENETICS RESEARCH AND CRIMINAL DNA DATABASES
D.H. KAYE*


I. INTRODUCTION

II. THE SCIENTIFIC "IS": OFFENDER DNA DATABASES AND REPOSITORIES AS A USEFUL SOURCE OF BEHAVIORAL GENETICS DATA
A. Evidence for a Genetic Basis of Behavior
B. The Mythical "Crime Gene"
C. Law Enforcement Databases and Repositories as a Source of Genetic Data

 

[MistyM]

i'm not blowing off a biological or injury theory. but most of the books i've read have a really bad story about the killer and their mother's relationship. i think it's behavioural based on the person's view of women stemming from their maternal relationship at a young age. it always seems like the same kind of guy. and i think maybe they do have to be predispositioned with something in their heads and perhaps add an injury to that. it's not a common thing, so maybe you need all the factors combined present.

 

[txsvicki]

I think about 10% of those 35-50 serial killers in the U.S. were in my town of only about 200,000 just this past year. One is still free since the DA won't charge him, one is in jail, and there's probably at least one more who is still unknown. I don't think serial killers, child molestors, or rapists have anything physically or mentally wrong with them, just sexually deviant psychopaths who choose what they do, but may not necessarily understand why. They become worse and worse and more depraved as anyone would if doing such horrible things to others.

 

[GlitchWizard]

Glitch, it's interesting that you write to one. How did you get started doing that?

The truth is stranger than fiction - so here's the truth. ha ha!

My ex husband was a deadbeat dad. I was bored at work and toying with the idea of getting his mug shot from the Texas database and putting it on my personal webspace. Then, I figured I'd put a death row banner over his picture on my webspace and searched for Death Row stuff. I found a web site in Canada with pen pal requests on it, and it just was one of those times you surf the web for one reason and end up doing something totally different! I wrote to a guy (not a serial killer) and it was totally interesting and fun to do. Then I wrote to another one before looking up what his crimes were. When I found out he was a serial killer and some things he's done, I nearly stopped writing him, but he was so interesting and fun to get to know, that I just kept writing. He does not go into details of his crimes, only answers what I ask - but if I asked him to tell me more, I know he would.

Without getting into a pro-con death penalty discussion here, I did have a thought in the shower at the gym this morning.... It costs $51 MILLION dollars a year to maybe execute 1 or 2 guys, but to have appeals trying to get about 300 + guys off death row in Florida. What if we gave them Life, no parole and used that $51 MILLION dollars on the right equipment for the right cops to get child sexual predators IN prison, rather than use the money to try to get death row guys OUT of prison?

Just a thought. I think I'll ask our new Governor if it would work. As a Mom, I'd like to know more was being done to protect my daughter, and 51 Million dollars would sure help.

 

[STANDREID]

British serial killer Trevor Hardy aka "The Beast of Manchester" died in prison Tuesday. The 65-year-old had brutally murdered three teenage females in 1974-76. He was also a suspect in the 1971 slaying of another 17-year-old girl.

 

[STANDREID]

Update: Trevor Hardy was a suspect in that 1971 rape slaying of 17-year-old Dorothy Leyden but in 2004 a DNA test proved that the killer wasn't him. The DNA did not match anyone else on record either.

 

[STANDREID]

Manson Family member Bruce Davis, 70, has just been recommended for parole. As I understand it, the motion only needs Gov. Brown's approval now. Davis was sentenced to life for two murders and had even been mentioned as a possible Zodiac suspect. Maybe I would show him some mercy if he's still extant at 85 but I would keep him inside for now - jus sayin'.

 

[Battlestar2680]

John Douglas, a former chief of the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit and author of "Mind Hunter," says, "A very conservative estimate is that there are between 35 and 50 active serial killers in the United States" at any given time.