· They tend to be intelligent and have IQ's in the 'bright normal' range.

· In spite of their high IQ's, they do poorly in school, have a hard time holding down jobs, and often work as unskilled laborers.

· They tend to come from markedly unstable families. Typically, they are abandoned as children by their fathers and raised by domineering mothers.

· Their families often have past criminal, psychiatric, and alcoholic histories.

· They hate their fathers. They hate their mothers.

· They are commonly abused as children - psychologically, physically, and sexually. Sometimes the abuser is a stranger. Sometimes, it is a friend. Often, it is a family member.

· Many of them end up spending time in institutes as children and have records of early psychiatric problems.

· They are intensely interested from an early age in voyeurism, fetishism, and sadomasochistic pornography.

· Serial killers aren't always referred to by the amount of people they have killed, but more

MISSION ORIENTATED - Believe that they have a mission to carry out. To rid the streets of prostitutes would seem the most common, but homosexuals, foreigners and even in Charles Manson's case, whites, are just few of the helpless that are often preyed upon by mission orientaters.

Holmes, after scamming his way into money built what he called 'The Castle'. Inside his castle were secret passageways, hidden staircases, fake walls, concealed shafts, and trap doors. Some rooms were sound proof, lined with asbestos, and equipped with gas pipes connected to large pipes in the cellar. And of them all was a pair of chutes from the second and third floors of the basement, where Holmes kept a fully equipped dissection lab.

As opposed to Charles Manson is John Wayne Gacy, who killed 33 people, many of which were young boys. Yet both were classified as serial killers.

by the amount of deaths resulting from actions produced by a guilty mind and actions. Charles Manson for example was convicted of the Tate-LaBianca murders in July 1969, yet never wielded a knife or fired a pistol. It was his manipulation of his cult members that proved him to be the guilty mind behind the murders.

Next, around the 1910's was Fritz Haarman. Not only did Haarman kill boys, but also sold their left over flesh that he didn't consume to the black-market beef trade. Next, in the 1920's was Albert Fish. When examined by a psychiatrist, he declared that Fish had practice every sexual perversion known aswell as a few no one had ever heard of.

But no other time besides the nineteen sixties and seventies had any country seen a bigger epidemic of serial killers than America. Not until than had serial murders been so planned and thought out and it was about this time that an abundant amount of serial sex-murders occurred. This era saw the likes of Melvin Rees, Albert DeSalvo, Richard Speck, Charles Manson, the Zodiac- which is still at large to date, Berkowitz, Bundy, Kemper and Gacy, Bouno and Bianchi.

MISSION ORIENTATED - Believe that they have a mission to carry out. To rid the streets of prostitutes would seem the most common, but homosexuals, foreigners and even in Charles Manson's case, whites, are just few of the helpless that are often preyed upon by mission orientaters.

POWER SEEKERS - Usually seek pure control over their victim. To say that it compensates for their own personal feelings would lack reasoning. But to say that it gives them a power that they were always on the other end to, explains just why power seekers feel most happy whilst dominating a victim.

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