f thembefore the rest got suspicious and reported her to authorities. When questioned, sheconfessed to the murders, several other attempts, and even burning down a church thatexpressed a reluctance to carry out the marriage ceremony. Her defense at trial was "theDevil made me do it". She was sentenced to life imprisonment.-----Revenge/VisionaryWhy are they?"It was an urge. . . . . A strong urge, and the longer I let it go the stronger it got, to where Iwas taking risks to go out and kill people--risks that normally, according to my little rulesof operation, I wouldn't take because they could lead to arrest." -- Edmund KemperWhere does this urge come from? In this project I aim to address 3 areas which is said tohave impact on these people leading them to a life of serial murder. Childhood family lifeMost of the information in this assertion comes from the FBI behavioral sciencedepartment and FBI profiler Robert Ressler. *Serial killers are never really able to bond with their families. *This then leads to a struggle to bond with friends so there are very few or norelationships of any value to these people. *A positive view of the father is rare among serial killers, while 72% report a lack ofattachment to, and no positive image of, their fathers. The serial killer feels moreaggression than the average child, and a good portion of this is vented toward the father. **Ron Langevin writes in "The Serial Killer," that indeed, the serial killer holds moreanger and substantially less affection toward the father than do even other murderers. Shegoes on to say that episodes of bedwetting and firesetting, coexist with a tendency forcruelty to animals, and have been called the 'triad' of childhood characteristicsrepresentative of future serial killers. *Ressler also points out that 82% of serial killers report daydreaming so much that itbecame a problem for them in childhood, *and 71% report chronic lying. *80% of them had run away at some p...
