serial killer

- Will bring a 'rape kit’ (rope, handcuffs, chloroform etc) if desired. Personalizes himself with the victim (talks, leads, captures etc. the victim Rape, torture etc. may take place beforeinto/for planned murder situation). Kills victim with awareness ofmurder, for the killer’s own gratification. Might move the bodyevidence at crime scene (which may cleaned destroyed etc). Killer will notto hide, bury it etc. in an attempt to evade/delay discovery. be involved further with the victim's body, but may take articles, jewelry etc. Murderfor trophy or gain. Disorganized Killer (eg. Berkowitz, Chase) - usually happens at the spur of the moment (with no planning but the one simple Does not bring any tools ('rape kit') to the kill exceptobjective to kill). No contact with the victim prior to spur of the momentmaybe murder device. Kills victim No rape, torture etc. will take place before murder. murder. but does not care for evidence usually left at the crime scene (high degree of Will not move body in an attempt to hide,violence takes place at murder). Killer might be involved furtherbury it etc., unconcerned of its discovery. with the dead victim (mutilation, necrophilia, cannibalism, etc) and may also take souvenir. ORIGINS: Robert K. Ressler (a FBI Behavioral Science Unit agent) coined the term ‘serial killer’ in 1975. Before it was known as being a 'serial killer' it was referred to as a 'stranger killer' because the killers victims were usually unknown to him. Ressler concluded that sometimes the killer did kill people he knew so the word ‘serial’ (by meaning series) applied to this sort of killer; the term serial killer was then adopted to and used. The first cases of serial killers probably go back into early times of history with no or few records. Some of the oldest recorded serial ...