etween three hundred and six hundred victims. Jarvis Cato, one of a handful of Black men to be charged with serial murder was put to death in January of 1943 for the death of Rose Ambramovitz and 8 other women. Jessica Cain is the last known victim of the "I-45 Killer". From 1972 to 1997, forty-two teenage girls and young women have vanished. Many were later found dead, described as being victims of the same killer. There was a 4-year focus on one suspect but no evidence has ever been found. ConclusionThe serial killer, rather than being a creature of complete and utter evil, they are in truth addicts. Shaped by a dysfunctional childhood and faulty learning, the serial killer learns to depend on fantasy as a coping mechanism. This is, in certain respects, no different from the alcoholic using their drink of choice as a coping mechanism. Just as addicts tend to fall into a downward spiral, until all else in their lives centers around the addictive substance, the serial killers life begins to revolve around fantasy. The revolution becomes so dominating that eventually fantasy becomes the center of the serial killers life. And just as the heroin addicts need for a fix may drive him to steal, the serial killers obligation to the fantasy drives him to murder. In short, the cycle of the serial killer is no different from the cycle of any other addict, the end result being functionally the same as the heroin addicts theft. ...
