Ridgway had a troubled childhood and struggled with sexual urges. He attempted to murder a young boy as a teenager. As an adult, he had multiple marriages that ended due to infidelity. Ridgway is known to have murdered 48 women, most of whom were sex workers, during the 1970s and 1980s in Washington state. He would strangle the women, have sex with their bodies, and dump them in wooded areas. Ridgway was arrested in 2001 and pleaded guilty, receiving multiple life sentences without parole.
Jeffrey Dahmer is a known, serial killer from Milwaukee, US. This PowerPoint makes it easy to understand the criminal mindset, psychological disorders and psychological study associated with it.
Jeffrey Dahmer is a known, serial killer from Milwaukee, US. This PowerPoint makes it easy to understand the criminal mindset, psychological disorders and psychological study associated with it.
It is important for you as death investigators / LE, to have a working knowledge of all death scenarios . You should have a basic understanding of the characteristics and/or non-characteristics of what makes a serial kill, as opposed to a mass or spree kill.
In this way you can identify the need for more expert involvement or discern if you may have a death committed by a serial killer in your area or one that has passed through.
It is important for you as death investigators / LE, to have a working knowledge of all death scenarios . You should have a basic understanding of the characteristics and/or non-characteristics of what makes a serial kill, as opposed to a mass or spree kill.
In this way you can identify the need for more expert involvement or discern if you may have a death committed by a serial killer in your area or one that has passed through.
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Every two minutes, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted. 1, 2 One out of every six American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. 3 Only one in 50 women who have been raped reports the crime to the police.4
Although both women and men may be victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking, women are the victims of the vast majority of these crimes. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than 85% of violent victimizations by intimate partners between 1993 and 1998 were perpetrated against women. Women are between 13 and 14 times more likely than men to be raped or sexually assaulted; for instance, in 1994, 93% of sexual assaults were perpetrated against women. Four of five stalking victims are women.
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Case 1: Mass Murder
Andrea Yates was convicted of drowning her five children and given a sentence of life in prison.
Later, it was found that the sentence of life in prison was based on the inaccurate testimony of a highly respected forensic psychiatrist. Her life sentence was overturned, and she was found guilty by reason of insanity and sent to a mental hospital.
Yates suffered from severe postpartum depression and had been hospitalized for an attempted suicide before she killed her children. Yates was delusional and reported having thoughts that were degrading and persecuting her for her motherhood. She was also having command hallucinations telling her she was a bad mother and her children would grow up to be criminals, so she should save them by drowning them.
Case 2: Serial Killer
In 1980, John Wayne Gacy was found guilty of murdering 33 young men. He picked up some of his victims at a local homosexual bar. Other victims were taken home for "interviews" as prospective employees for his construction business. The remains of 29 victims were found buried under his home while the other four victims had been thrown into the Des Plaines River near Chicago.
Gacy always maintained his innocence throughout the trial and appeals process claiming someone else put the bodies in the crawl space beneath his house. Also known as "The Killer Clown," Gacy used handcuffs and chloroform to subdue his victims, and then he would tie a rope around their necks and slowly twist until he squeezed the life out of them.
Gacy had been married twice and had two children from the first marriage. Both marriages ended in divorce when his wives found items from his victims or were unhappy from a lack of any sexual contact between them. During both marriages and afterwards, Gacy was considered an outstanding member of his community. Gacy was executed on May 10, 1994.
Case 1 (mass murder) and Case 2 (serial murder) can be analyzed and categorized by fitting them into one or more of the theories developed to explain the phenomenon of multiple murder. The theories are developed by experts in the field who study mass and serial murderers.
What are the similarities and differences between the definitions for serial and mass murder?
What purposes are served by establishing the typologies that apply to a mass murderer? Are they the same purposes that are served by establishing the typology of a serial killer?
Could a serial murderer ever become a mass murderer and vice versa? Why or why not?
Considering the cases described above, which typologies apply to each killer? Explain how you arrived at this conclusion.
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Running head: SERIAL KILLER-JEFFREY DAHMER
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SERIAL KILLER-JEFFREY DAHMER
Serial Killer-Jeffrey Dahmer
Shanee’ Ellington
Liberty University
25 April 2019
Serial murderer – an introduction
The crime of manslaughter has been known for a long time, to be specifically the early 1600’s but the initial case of a serial murderer was in the year 1888, named, Jack the Ripper, who killed and mutilated five prostitutes in the East London. Field experts have stated that at any time, the United States has around 50 active serial murderers, owing to the fact that arroba the year multiple homicides have occurred. Now the question arises, who is a serial killer?
A person possessing a specific emotional drive to kill mercilessly is termed as a serial murderer. These murders, killings, manslaughters, or homicides are generally done in a different way that distinguishes one serial murderer from another. The killer often has a sign that they are distinguished with. Serial murderers are kept in the page as being mass- slayers. The only difference being that serial murderers do not naturally kill the way mass murderers/ slayers do, i.e. mass slayers don’t leave breaks in committing the merciless murders. On the other hand, serial murderers tend to have a distinct feature that reflects the fact that they are murderers with a psychotic overdrive (Ellens, 2011).
Jeffrey Dahmer
Nearly 25 years ago, one of America’s most infamous serial murderers, Jeffrey Dahmer, a paedophile, and a cannibal, was confronted, attacked and mercilessly slayed while cleaning the bathroom of a prison. His span of crime ranged from June 18, 1978 till July 19, 1991.
Jeffrey Dahmer, also known as Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial murderer and a sex criminal who brutally raped and then killed 17 men and boys between the years 1978 to 1991. Several of those later homicides consisted of preservation of several body parts of the victims, necrophilia and cannibalism. Though he was initially diagnosed with several mental diseases like borderline personality disorder, a psychotic disorder, and schizotypal personality disorder, Dahmer was found to be legitimately stable at his probation.
He was sentenced for fifteen terms of life custody on February 15, 1992 for the fifteen of the sixteen homicides that he had committed in Wisconsin. Later, he was condemned to a sixteenth term of life custody for an additional slaughter in 1978 in Ohio. Dahmer was crushed to death by Christopher Scarver On November 28th, 1994 at the Columbia Correctional Institution (Martens, 2011).
Jeffery’s move into criminality- early years
It is reported by witnesses that as an infant, Dahmer was deprived of attention and love that a child expects from his parents. It is also reported that his mother was identified as a stressed, covetous, and argumentative lady who often quarrelled with her husband and their neighbours. As Dahmer entered the first grade, his mother .
2. •Ridgway was born on Feb. 18, 1949
in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Mary Rita
Steinman and Thomas Newton
Ridgway. He has two brothers,
Gregory Leon and Thomas Edward.
• Ridgway's home life was somewhat
troubled his mother was domineering
and he witnessed multiple violent
arguments.
• He had a problem of wetting the bed,
his mom would bathe him
immediately and embarrass him and
belittle him in front of his family
3. • From a young age, Ridgway had conflicting
feelings of sexual attraction and anger toward her.
• He was considered to have low intelligence, and he
did poorly in school.
• in his teenage years he led a 6 year old boy into the
woods and stabbed him, the boy survived the attack.
The victim reported he walked away laughing and
heard him say “ I always wondered what it would be
like to kill someone”
4. • Graduated from high school Married Claudia Barrows
• He then joined the navy , he spent a lot of time with prostitutes and
contracted a STD he continued with the prostitutes anyway. His
marriage with Claudia ended with in a year
• His first two marriages resulted in divorce because of
infidelities by both partners. His second wife, Marcia Winslow,
claimed that he had placed her in a chokehold.
• Ridgway had become religious during his second marriage
but he continued to solicit the services of prostitutes during this
marriage; he also wanted Marcia to participate in sex in public
and inappropriate places, sometimes even in areas where his
victims' bodies were later discovered.
5. • According to women in his life, Ridgway had
an insatiable sexual appetite, himself admitted
to having a fixation with prostitutes.
• It has been speculated that Ridgway was torn
between his uncontrollable lusts and his
religious beliefs.
• In 1975, his second wife gave birth to
Ridgway's son, Matthew.
• he married a third time to Judith Mawson 1988
6. childhood difficulties
emotionally/ sexually torn about mother
7. He got their trust and had
sexual intercourse with them
then he would proceed to
strangle them
he would dump the bodies
in clusters around the Green
River, also in other places to
decieve law enforcement
he would often return to the
bodeis and have sex with
them again (necrophilia)
9. he did well hiding evidence, he
put evidence leading to other
people at the crime scenes and
transported bodies across state
lines to confuse police
Ridgway was arrested in 1982
for prostitution related charges
he became a suspect in 1983,
passed a polygraph test, DNA
samples were taken which
would then lead to him getting
caught because of him having
Intercourse with the victims
10. 48 charges of first degree murder
48 life sentences with no possibility of parole
and one life sentence, to be served
consecutively. He was also sentenced to an
additional 10 years for tampering with
evidence for each of the 48 victims, adding 480
years to his 48 life sentences.
11. Live the everyday life anyone else would
hold a job like anyone else would
sometimes married and have children
12. Organized crime scenes Disorganized crime scenes
1. Planned offense 1. Body left at death scene
2. Transports body 2. Spontaneous offense
3. Body hidden 3. Evidence or weapon present
4. Controlled conversation at scene
5. Demands submissive victim 4. Victim or location known
6. Missing weapon or evidence5. Body left in view
7. Victim is a targeted stranger 6. Depersonalizes victim
8. Personalizes victim 7. Sexual acts after death
9. Crime scene reflects control 8. Minimal conversation
10. Restraints used 9. Minimal use of restraints
11. Aggressive acts done 10. Crime scene sloppy
before death 11. Sudden violence to victim
13. Mixed Crime Scene Atypical
Show characteristics Scenes that cant be
of organized classified with the data
And disorganized that is available. Police
crime scenes. Indicates may need to look into
possible two offenders to data bases to
or the offender compare previous
possibly staged the scenes
scene.
