illed hundreds of children).Facinatingly, there are four main types of serial killers; Visionary- who murder in response to an inner-voice that commands them to kill, Mission Oriented- murder in order to rid the world of a particular type of person, Hedonistic Thrill Seekers- murder for sexual gratification, and Power-Control Oriented- employ a sufficient amount of torture in the killing process as they revel in having complete control over the vivtim. Thogh no two killers are exactly alike and each possess various motives, they share most of the same characteristics. The profile of a serial murder usually includes violence as a child, bed wetting, rejection of mother, absence or physical abuse by the father. As in the case study of H. Lucas, his father was an abusive alcholic who had beaten him, and his mother, a prostitute. He was left unconscious for three days in the hospital due to by a blow to the head from his father. He had a variety of neurological symptoms such as dizziness and blackouts. He was never allowed to cry and he was deprived of food untill starvation. Then he was force to watch his mother have sex with her clients. His earliest memory of his mother was shooting a client in the head after sex, showering Lucas with blood.As a teenager, Lucas commited bestiality and dissection of small animals, he also had intercourse with is half brother. His mother's lover decapitated a calf and had sex with the dead body in frint of him. At age fifteen he murdered and raped his first victim. And after an altercation with his mother, he killed her and ended up with a prison sentence for forty years. He was diagnosed as a psychopath, a sadist, and a sexual deviant, lacking in self confidence. Though he constantly stated that he would kill again, he was paroled in 1970. He murdered within walking didtance of the prison, and this time his victims were young girls, which he raped, killed, and dismembered. He practiced necrophilia, sodo...
