Serial Killers

They're really interesting, but disturbing at the same time. I don't like hearing so much about the action of their killings - what they did with their victims and so on - but making links from their respective childhoods or societal backgrounds is so... I don't know how to describe it. You can just try and make connections and in turn try to understand their minds, like some kind of riddle. You just want to know why they're different, why they're killers.

For anyone really into this kind of detective work, try reading In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. It's really shocking, reading about what these guys did to a family they didn't even know and without an apparent motive at all, and confronting, having to try and work it out yourself.

Honestly? I'm rather fascinated with them. I wonder what's going on in their head. What made them snap? Did something happen to them? Et cetera, et cetera. I'm constantly thinking and rethinking, and I'm constantly wanting to get into someone's head and just nitpick their thoughts, so I would obviously love nothing more than the chance to sit down and have an actual conversation with a serial killer.

They honestly don't scare me. They kill, they kill, they kill. We all have to die at some point in our life. And yeah, that made me sound like a bitch. I'm not saying it's okay to kill someone, it just kind of... Intrigues me... :XD

I think that they're fascinating. I love learning about what makes them tick, what drives them to kill, all that stuff. I do, however, think that they are individuals who do need some help, and they have no right to do what they do, but nonetheless I find them fascinating.

My limit is when I'm reading something about them and then they show a victim of the killer. I can't handle that.

I adore them. I feel bad for the victims though. I like to study them and see what their personal styles are and such.

They are both sick and interesting.

I think what they do is completely sick and rather disturbing, yet the way they do it and how they trick the police is interesting.

Jack The Ripper has been a weird fascination of mine for a long time now and i have read countless books and watched countless programmes on him.

I think they are so cool.
Not in the sense that I want to be one or anything.
I just think they are super interesting.
Call me weird but Im pretty fond of looking at the crime scene photos.
I like gore.
Ha, I'm a strange girl.

they disgust me and i don't find it interesting whatsoever.

Agreed.

But I like to study them from a psychological point of view. I'm not interested on how they mutilated their victims, or anything of that gross nature, I'm interested in what drove them to do that. Like with Ted Bundy for instance, I want to know how he could seem so charming and normal but then go on to rape and murder women. Better yet, why did he choose all his victims with such similar looks? You know, stuff like that...

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I think it'd be fascinating to know what's going through their heads.

:shifty

I bought a book that went in the mind of a serial killer. It was written by this therapist dude or whatever. And the Manson killers explained everything they did in that book, it terrifyng and addicting to read. My dad took it away though, he thinks I'm gonna end up like them one day. :roll:

I think I was pretty much destined to be interested in such topics. :XD

Anyways. Serial killers have always been a fascination for me. I remember being about...I dunno, I'd say 8-10 range and looking through my dad's bookcase before finding a book on Jack the Ripper and looking at the pictures that had been taken. It didn't disturb me at all. I think from about then on I've been really intrigued by them. I wouldn't go as far to say I idolise them or wish to become one or anything. I just want to know what goes on in their head. Their thoughts, their motives, their logic. I even like to write about them.

I don't condone their actions. I don't want to be one. I just find them interesting.

I'm quite fascinated by them. I'm not quite sure as to why, but I am.

I went and bought a book on Jack the Ripper, and while my mum was disgusted [possibly even scared] by the crime scene and mortuary photos in it, I found them kind of cool. Instead of spending my spare time in class looking up love calculators or flash games or whatever, I'll sit on Wikipedia and read through their pages on Ed Gein and Elizabeth Bathory.

I don't, and never will, condone what they do/have done, but something about the way they do it, why they do it, how they do it... it just intrigues me.

Sure, it's quite an odd interest to have, but I like it. :coffee:

They sicken me yet they also fascinate me, I can't help but wonder what was going on in their heads and what was the reason for them doing what they did.

I got my friend two books on serial killers for her last birthday and she really enjoyed them. I don't have any thoughts on the subject particularly, except that it's a terrible thing to do obviously. I'm not really interested in psycology (sp?) but it's interesting when they serial killers on CSI etc.

Robo125:

Agreed.
Like with Ted Bundy for instance, I want to know how he could seem so charming and normal but then go on to rape and murder women. Better yet, why did he choose all his victims with such similar looks? You know, stuff like that...

He chose victims with similar looks because they all looked like his first girlfriend, Stephanie. She dumped him in university because she thought he wasn’t going anywhere in life and broke his heart – Ted’s always feared rejection. So he imprinted this image of his girlfriend onto his victims.

Jeffrey Dahmer.:

Robo125:

Agreed.
Like with Ted Bundy for instance, I want to know how he could seem so charming and normal but then go on to rape and murder women. Better yet, why did he choose all his victims with such similar looks? You know, stuff like that...

He chose victims with similar looks because they all looked like his first girlfriend, Stephanie. She dumped him in university because she thought he wasn’t going anywhere in life and broke his heart – Ted’s always feared rejection. So he imprinted this image of his girlfriend onto his victims.

Yes, and also some serial killers choose victims with similar looks because that's who they're attracted to.
And it's said that Dahmer's victims were mostly minorities because he lived in a poor part of town and that's who mostly went to the bar he used to pick up people from.

erm... I'm going to have to disagree with everyone. It's too sick for me to have in interest. I think that maybe fictional serial killers might be interesting because I won't have to think that it actually happened to some poor person and their family will have to deal with it too....

I don't know, just my opinion.

Vladimir Tod.:

Jeffrey Dahmer.:

He chose victims with similar looks because they all looked like his first girlfriend, Stephanie. She dumped him in university because she thought he wasn’t going anywhere in life and broke his heart – Ted’s always feared rejection. So he imprinted this image of his girlfriend onto his victims.

Yes, and also some serial killers choose victims with similar looks because that's who they're attracted to.
And it's said that Dahmer's victims were mostly minorities because he lived in a poor part of town and that's who mostly went to the bar he used to pick up people from.

Yeah, a lot of people try to claim that he was racist, but in actual fact he just lived in an area where ethnic minorities were easy to come by. Plus, he was attracted to them - he said so himself that he only picked people up who were attractive to him. They died because he liked them.

kllyqtpie15:

erm... I'm going to have to disagree with everyone. It's too sick for me to have in interest. I think that maybe fictional serial killers might be interesting because I won't have to think that it actually happened to some poor person and their family will have to deal with it too....

I don't know, just my opinion.

Yeah, you can't ignore the cost for the families. It's not that we all are so obsessed that we want to be serial killers, personally I'm just really interested in what makes them do it. What makes someone wake up one morning and think, "Yeah, I'm just going to kill someone"?

The only way we can help is to understand.