How to Make a Serial Killer: The Twisted Development of Innocent Children Into the World's Most Sadistic Murderers
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THE LOST CHILDHOODS, HORRIFIC CRIMES AND DEMENTED MINDS OF THOSE WHO KILL WITHOUT REMORSE. They were born into this world as innocent children. They ended up as merciless killing machines. "How to Make a Serial Killer" leads you on an insightful, scary, and ultimately disturbing investigation into what made these infamous murderers go bad. Following the biographies and killing sprees of Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Washington D.C. snipers John Muhammad and Lee Molvo and many others, this book asks: Is there really a demon seed ?Do genes play a role?Was it the killer s family background?How did peer group pressure influence their murderous instincts?Can it all be traced back to a shattering experience early in life? "How to Make a Serial Killer" follows the lives of these lost souls from early childhood to dark destiny. It provides a fascinating look into the potential for disaster created by a violent and abusive upbringing. No matter what their crime, these killers are still human, and this book explores the twisted workings of their destructive minds."
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1569756546
ISBN13:9781569756546
Release Date:May 2008
Publisher:Ulysses Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:0.74 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.6" x 8.4"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
how to make serial killer
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
It showed how there really can't be one profile that shows that an individual will become a serial killer, but the life histories of some of the famed killers do contribute to their delinquency. The killers were assessed at the end of their stories they are reviewed in a special scale to predict if they would be likely to become a killer. Very interesting reading.
Interesting overview
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
The authors spend each chapter focusing on a serial killer, making an effort to determine what factors made them psychopaths. They were fairly good about including a variety of serial killers--not all of the examples were the standard lust killers. They even included a woman, which not all authors bother to do. However, I would have liked more depth from this book, particularly when it came to the killers' motives. I also felt that the authors did relatively little to answer their own question of what causes people to become serial killers. They included charts that compared each example to the FBI's list of factors that predict someone may kill (having a criminal history, alcoholism, domineering father, etc.). But they did little to incorporate that data into the actual text, and they offered no explanation for why some of the killers had few (or none!) of the FBI warning signs. This book is a good overview for beginners, but I was expecting more.
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