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David Berkowitz mostly fits the profile of a serial killer.  As an average joe, neighbors and co-workers thought of him as a quiet loner, but they had no idea how lethal he was. David shows how he is an egotistical bragger when he began taunting the police, leaving a letter for a police captain near the scene. In his note, Berkowitz called himself the Son of Sam.

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Ted Bundy-
Ted bundy fits into the category. He was a good looking charming guy and it was easier for him to lur people in make them like him and his presence. But when he did this he would ended up murdering the people.He would keep the served heads of his people that he killed. The reason why is because he would keep thrm as trophies. Ted loved the power and control he had over them. and if you saw ted you would not even think of him as a serial killer.

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Ted Bundy matches many of the traits that aligned with the ones in the article. He was charming and sweet so he would entice his victims into thinking he was a nice guy. He grew up in a very stable household which would lead many to think it is very strange that he was a serial killer. He was very manipulative. He would use his problems to make his victims feel guilty. He has done many interesting things to catch his victims attention. He would create a bond with the women and make them trust him. Women would fall into this and he would kill them. He loved having the power that he did over women and would use that to his advantage by acting average then killing his victims. He would even keep body parts or items as tokens after his killings. He fits the profile of a serial killer very well.

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Donald Harvey mostly fits the profile of a serial killer. He was known as just an average person until he started to poison patients at a hospital he worked at. He was well liked in his community. He was manipulative of his patients. It almost seemed liked he bragged about how many people he had killed as well. Harvey claimed he had killed 87 people when he had actually killed around 37-57 people, which is still a lot.

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john wayne gacy
john wayne gacy fits the title of a serial killer very well. when gacy was a child his father had been physically abusive and had struck gacy with belts and brooms from ages 4-18. when gacy was older he would dress like a clown called "Pogo the Clown" he later got the name "killer clown". gacy wasn't a real "power junkie", he just enjoyed killing young boys. gacy would manipulate teenage boys into coming into his basement and would make them drink and then perform unwanted tasks and then kill them. he manipulated the people of the "jacyees" to think that he did not do anything wrong when in fact he was sexually assaulting young men. gacy never really was the type to brag about anything because he was in the jaycees and into politics and never wanted to disrupt his roles. i wouldn't say that gacy was a charmer it's just he was very welcoming into his house. gacy tried to act like "an average joe" and he was seen as one until he was sent into a mental hospital where they found that he was suffering from antisocial personality disorder. overall, gacy fits most of the roles of a serial killer.

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in a sense, richard chase fits the role of a serial killer. he was abused as a child by his mother and by the age of ten he was already engaging in violent behavior against animals and was very involved with drugs. he also suffered from uncontrollable urination, arsonism, and eventually developed hypochondria. after being put into a mental institution, he liked to brag about killing rabbits. some time later, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. overall, everyone always thought he was a really weird guy and no one wanted him around besides his mother until his death in 1980.

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Gary Ridgeway fits some of the typical descriptions but not all of them. he was not very intelligent.... ill finish this later

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Ted Bundy fits these descriptions perfectly.. He confessed to about 30 murders, but it is estimated he may have killed up to 100. He was said to be charming and very charismatic. He grew up in a stable household and many liked him as a person. This was the perfect cover for a serial killer. He was manipulative and would pretend to be a lot of different people with many different problems. He escaped from police multiple occasions and even pretended to be a policeman in order to make his victims trust him and believe him. He enjoyed power and enjoyed the way he felt when he acted like an authority figure. He kidnapped, raped, and murdered women, and he enjoyed controlling the deaths of his victims. Bundy would describe himself as “the most cold hearted person that anyone would ever meet”. He was egotistical, popular, active, and confident in the social and political community. He was really liked and was seen as just a normal guy in the community.

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Jeffery Dahmer fits the profile of a serial killer extremely well.  As a child he did not have many friends and when his parents went through a big divorce he became socially unstable.  Dahmer described his family life as being full of tension which could have lead to his instability.  He was found to have Borderline Personality disorder and a psychotic disorder.  At a very young age he became obsessed with dead animals which may have lead to the thrill he got from murder.  He also continued to persuade his parents by giving them fake promises.  In high school he was somewhat considered a class clown which explains how he likes the attention and authority that comes with being a criminal.

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Jeffrey Dahmer
I think that he fits the serial killer very well. When he was younger, he was extremely unstable after his parents divorced. He did not have many friends. He was mentally unstable, and was diagnosed with many mental problems. He was very curious about dead animals and their bones. He learned how to preserve animal bones using bleach. In high school he was viewed as an outcast, and a class clown.

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Dr. Harold Fredrick Shipman matches the traits of a serial killer. He was raised by a mother who instilled an idea of him having superiority over everyone else resulting in him being isolated with very few friends. When his mother became sick he willingly oversaw her care as she declined,  fascinated by the positive effect that the administration of morphine had on her suffering. He became addicted to the painkiller Pethidine and forged prescriptions for large amounts of the drug. He was a doctor enabling him to manipulate people the same way his mother manipulated him.

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I think Ted Bundy matches up with the traits of a serial killer pretty well. He would manipulate his victims into thinking he was a nice guy, and when they got his trust he would kill them. One odd thing about Bundy is that he did not have an awful or abusive childhood. He had a pretty average childhood, so it doesn't make sense that that would be the reason for his crimes. After he would kill someone he would  return to his victims and  even keep some of their decapitated heads as mementos. Walking down the street you would think he was an average person who would not want to hurt you, but that was just all apart of his act. Overall I think he fits the traits of a serial killer very well and almost exact.

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Ted Bundy matches all of the traits that I read about. He was a superficial charmer who creates a bond of trust and charm, women would fall into this and he would kill them. Also an average joe and an power junkie, creating that trust and love and acting average until he'd kill them.

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Edmund Kemper: Kemper matches up with almost all of the identified traits of a serial killer.
Power Junkie: When he was a child, he tortured and killed animals (seemingly for power) and showed many other traits of wanting to be in control.
Manipulator: He would act innocent and communicate a certain way to make his victims feel more comfortable around him so he could lure them usually into his car.
Egotistical Bragger: Kemper would often mention murder to his siblings, etc.
Superficial Charmer: I wasn't able to find anything that mentioned him being a charmer in any way other than acting innocent and trying to be friendly.
Average Joe: He looked like an average Joe and many of his female predators agreed that in person, he seemed like a normal 'gentle giant' (he was very tall).

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Donald Harvey, also known as the "Angel of Death", definitly fits the role of a serial killer. He has had anywhere from 37-87 victims in his lifetime. He was just a regular 18 year old guy working in a hospital, until he started poisoning his patients. He claimed that to his sick patients he was just "putting them out of their misery."  When he was 18 he killed a total of 12 people at one hospital. He then went under 21 electroshock therapy treatments at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Lexington. He ended up getting his record concealed and getting two more jobs as a nurse at hospitals. He is sentenced to prison for life in Ohio on August 1987.

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Edmund Kemper displays many of the characteristics that were present in this article. Like many serial killers he had a bad childhood, suffering extreme emotional abuse at the hands of his mother, who was later diagnosed with a personality disorder. At fifteen years old he killed both his grandparents, and afterward was placed in a mental hospital. During his time incarcerated, Kemper displayed model behavior and manipulated his psychiatrists into believing that he had reformed. Five years after murdering his grandparents, Kemper was let go and his criminal record was erased. After his release Kemper began picking up hundreds of college aged women hitchhikers. At first, he wasn't aggressive but instead practiced tactics of manipulation, non-verbal cues, and discovered ways that effectively got young women to trust him. Eventually, he began killing, raping, and sometimes eating the women that he picked up.

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Ted Bundy-
power junkie
manipulator
egotistical bragger

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Jeffrey Dahmer

He fits the role perfect. He was an average boy who wanted really nothing. He had almost no friends and when his parents went through a big divorce he became different. He gained power over his murdered by luring them with promises of money and sex.

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Donald Harvey, also known as the "Angel of Death",

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Pedro Alonzo Lopez
He does not because he does not have a power junkie feel. He does not do his crimes because he wants power over the girls, he just does it to do it. Also he doesn't try to manipulate anyone into doing what he wants however instead the people he was raped by did that to him. He was polite at a young age until he started to be abused and raped on a daily basis and then he changed, he started wanting vengeance and that's all he wanted from his murders. He did not overly brag about his murders and he definitely wasn't any average Joe. He was imprisoned for 14 years, then deported to Columbia where he was institutionalized for being insane. Afterwards he was set free and now his whereabouts are unknown.

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John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy was abused as a child, and also faced a conflict in his sexuality. He was first convicted of sexual assault in 1968. Gacy was a neighborhood clown. He was also the manager of a fast food joint. These are two of the different things related to most serial killers. He had a position of power, and he was also an "average joe" in his neighborhood. He would be a clown at kids parties. He used his position of authority to lure victims into his house in pursuit of a possible job. He was convicted of killing 33 boys and young men, and was given many death penalties and life sentences.

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Gary Ridgway: Known as the Green River Killer, he had 49 murder convictions, the most of his victims were prostitutes in Washington State.
Power  Junkie: He was a power junkie by the way he killed, he would strangle his victims, using brute strength to do the killings.
Manipulator: He was manipulate women by eather buying them for the night or pretend to help runaway girls.
Egotistical Bragger: He would brag about his killings and said they could use his bragging as evidence if they ever linked him to the killers.
Superficial: N/A
Average Joe: He was pretty normal so to speak, keeping a job for thirty years.

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Gary Ridgway- matches the traits of a serial killer
Like many other serial killers Ridgway grew up in a broken home. In addition to the broken home, Ridgway developed a pattern. He would take prostitutes, runaways, and women in other vulnerable positions. He would strangle them, dump the bodies in an overgrown or forested area, and return to sexually defile the bodies of the victims. He was married multiple times and the marriages ended due to his infidelity. When his friends and family were questioned about him after his arrest they said he was friendly but strange. during his second marriage he became extremely religious and therefore a positive face in the community. Eventually he was caught through new DNA testing and it is speculated that he killed 80+ people.

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Ted Bundy: Ted Bundy matches up with the traits of a serial killer pretty well. The only thing that is odd about Ted Bundy compared to the rest of the examples is that he grew up in a fairly stable environment with a good family life. Almost everyone else had a rough home life growing up and was beaten or sexually abused. Ted Bundy was a manipulator and a charmer. He was very smart and attended law school. He lured many women due to his attractiveness and natural charm. He admitted to killing 30 women but it is estimated that he had killed up to 100.

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Dr. Harold Shipman
A British serial killer that murdered over 215 of his patients working as a doctor through the use of lethal doses in pain killers. Some key characteristics that Shipman exhibited that pertain to a serial killer would be his egotistic personality, antisocial, and manipulative. He also was seen by society as a hard working pillar of society, a doctor is often regarded as those who work selflessly to help others. He also exhibited the often seen denying of the amount of people he killed in order to remain powerful in having something over everyone. It was determined that he was a power killer,  because he wanted to exercise control over life and death. Also it was found that he showed a prevalent lack of compassion in the atrocitys he committed

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Ted Bundy-

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Ted Bundy fits the serial killer profile well, his childhood was not necessesarily abusive but it was messed up. He grew up thinking that his mom was his sister and his grandparents raised him.
He was said to be an "average joe" and he was handsome and charming. He would often fake an injury to get attention or pose as an officer in order to gain someones trust. He would kidnap his victims and take them to a secluded location to rape, beat, and murder them. He would smetimes revisit crime scenes and groom and perform sexual acts with his victims, he also decapitated some of his victims heads to keep as little momentos.

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Edmund Kemper
Manipulator: Kemper is noted for his height and high intelligence,  6-foot-9-inches tall, weighing over 300 lbs and having an IQ in the genius range,
Charmer: Kemper was regarded as innocent and non-threatening by his young female victims, embodying the persona of a "gentle giant"
Childhood: Killed his grandparents at the age of 15. Went to juvy for five years as criminally insane. Cruelty to animals, ten-year-old Kemper burying a pet cat alive, and once dead, digging it up, decapitating it and mounting its head on a spike.

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Donald Harvey

A Power Junkie:  He is describe in this article as being the self proclaimed "angel of death". By comparing himself to a divine figure he put himself as a person who controlled the fate of his victims and showed them a people who had no power against fight "divine" being. Which if that dose not show some one who likes power and is hungry for it, I really don't know what does.

A Manipulator: Was able to persuade, appeal to, and install trust into his victims in able to get close enough to them to kill his victims via Smothering with plastic or a pillow, Poisoning, or depriving them of oxygen using a faulty oxygen tank.

An Egotistical Bragger: During his trial he calmed to kill about 87 people in his life time when in all honestly only killed  36 to 57 people which by the way is way to many people but he liked to increase the number killed any time he could showing his "true" superiority.

A Superficial Charmer: For part of the early parts of his life before becoming a nurse he sold sporting good among other things as was very good. We was able to top the the sales in his company being approachable and very kind. Although at times to authority figures he was stand offish.

An Average Joe: In the article in which I have read on Donald Harvey the thing that makes him qualify for this part of the ideal serial killers was he worked at a hospital and had many clients.  He never worked weird or usual hours and he was always on time. He was considered one of the best in his field and was said to deserve the the title of being one of the best

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Dr.Harold Fredrick Shipman: A prolific British serial killer,he was born into a working class family.
-Power Junkie:Its obvious that he enjoyed power as he was a doctor and therefore had the power of life and death over his patients. He was also described as patronizing and arrogant to his colleagues and patients suggesting that he liked to be dominate.
-Manipulator:Although he was arrogant and patronizing  his colleagues and patients respected him. He used his position as a trusted doctor with a large practice to manipulate people.
-Egotistical Bragger:He was described as being arrogant even though he never outwardly bragged his attitude and obvious god complex are very large indications that he was extremely egotistical and enjoyed making people feel inferior.
-Superficial Charmer:He was a doctor people trusted and came to him for help,when he was child his mother made sure he was dressed properly and appeared perfect. He was close to his mother so those behaviours must have rubbed off on him.
-Average Joe?:He was a respected doctor,with a wife,and four kids in all respects he appeared to be normal.

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Ted Bundy matches up well to the characteristics in the article. He confessed to about 30 murders, but it was thought that he killed many more than that. He was said to be a charmer an charismatic. He also grew up in a stable household and many people liked him, making him seem like an average person; no one suspected that he was a murderer. He was also manipulative and posed as all types of personalities to make people trust him. He escaped police custody on multiple occasions, as well. He pretended to be a policeman, he pretended to have disabilities, and also acted like the average man. He enjoyed the power that he had over people and enjoyed the power he felt when he acted like an authority figure. He kidnapped, raped, and murdered women, and was a power junkie in the way that he enjoyed controlling the lives and deaths of others. Bundy also described himself as the most cold hearted person that anyone would ever meet. He was egotistical and confident, too. He confessed to 30 murders, and (before he was caught) was popular, active, and confident in the social and political community. Clearly, Bundy matches the serial killer traits well.

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Charles Manson is certainly a serial killer that fits the profile. He is the literal definition of insanity. Not only is he crazy but he also convinced a group of other people to commit murder also. He had a rough childhood and when he was born, his name was "No Name Maddox." He was born to a 16 year old girl without a father. Apparently Manson has a lot of disturbing stories about his childhood that are actually untrue. His mother ended up going to jail on a few accounts of robbery and her longest sentence was 5 years. When she got out, she tried to put her son into a foster home but none were available. The government took him and placed him in a boys home  but he left and went back to his mom who rejected him.

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Ted Bundy:

Power Junkie: He didn't admit to several crimes he was accused of. He also engaged in acts of necrophilia while revisiting the crime scenes.
Manipulator: He pretended to have injuries or disabilities to lure his victims and he would also pretend to be an authority figure.
Egotistical Bragger: He sometimes revisited the second crime scene for several hours. He interacted with the bodies and kept some heads from the victims he decapitated.
Superficial Charmer: He was considered handsome and charming by his female victims. He used this by approaching them in public pretending to be injured or disabled in order to overpower and attack them in secluded areas.
Average Joe: People who went to high school with him said that he was "well known and well liked" and was a "medium-sized fish in a large pond".

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Edmund Kemper "The Co-Ed Butcher"

Power Junkie: He liked to rape and cannibalize his victims, which he described as empowering

Manipulator: Used his persona in order to lure people into his car. He also would build his "gentle giant" persona by doing things like looking at his watch to seem non-threatening.

Egotistical Bragger: Kept the heads of his victims for days after the murder. Also turned himself in to be recognized.

Charmer: Was seen as innocent and non threatening by his victims.

Average Joe: He convinced doctors that he had been rehabilitated and adding that to the persona he had, he seemed like a perfectly normal person.

Childhood: He was abused by his mother, tortured animals, and killed his grand parents by age 15

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Ted Bundy:

Major Manipulator: He would use his charm to make people feel more at home and then later do what he actually wanted once he earned more trust.

Bragger: He often returned to where he left the bodies and did inappropriate things.

Charmer: He would often use his looks to charm girls to earn their trust.

Average Joe: He seemed like the average man.

Power Hungry: He did not admit to the crimes for over 10 years.

This man seems to fit the profile of the usual serial killer.

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John Wayne Gacy killed and and raped boy's at the time of his life and buried their bodies around on his property. He fits the profile of a serial killer. It was said that to everyone who meet him he seemed like a normal guy. He was a good catholic people said and when he wasn't running his construction company. Rumors started going around about Gacy's sexual preferences and that he seemed to have young boys always in his presence. John used his position of power at his company to confront the young teenage boys into doing sexual acts with him. Many of the young boys that he had hired went missing and were never seen again or never seen alive again.

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Ted Bundy: I do believe that Ted Bundy was an example of a serial killer based on what the the article says, because he showed some of the the traits given. He seemed like your regular kind flirty guy, but he used his charm to manipulate women and once they trusted him he would rape and kill them. It was said that he possibly gained this sense of killing because of his past break-up with a girlfriend while in college. So he directed his targets on younger women. He used his kindness and well-understanding to others, as a way to kill his victims.

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Jeffrey Dahmer fits the Serial killer profile perfectly! In his early life he was unable to gain acceptance from his peers. Though his parents didn't notice a change until age six after a minor surgery for a double hernia....

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John Wayne Gacy

Gacy was beaten and insulted from a very early age by his father. He was compared unfavourably to his sisters and was beaten with a belt and knocked unconscious with a broomstick. Despite his father’s abhorrent treatment, Gacy loved his father. I feel this is a key point. Gacy was frequently beaten and yelled at without having done anything wrong. At seven years old he and a friend were caught fondling a girl and Gacy was subsequently beaten. Later that same year, Gacy was molested by a family friend and refrained from telling his father for fear of being punished. Gacy apparently had some sort of heart condition. Evidence of excessive childhood abuse.

Gacy was very friendly with teachers and staff at school and was occasionally subject to bullying. Evidence of being a pillar of society.

Gacy was living in a mortuary and partook in necrophilia with the corpse of a teenage boy in secret, but right after this incident became the perfect “Average Joe”. He achieved the title of Key Man after working with the JC’s, then worked his way up to vice president. He was “highly regarded as a tireless worker”. He married a woman after a nine month courtship with her.

By way of blackmailing, persuasion, and manipulation, Gacy received oral sex from male teenagers and made some of them have sex with his wife. A master manipulator.
He bragged about the times he went out to find young males to rape. He called these excursions "cruising".

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Jefferey Dahmer does fit the description of a serial killer. He was diagnosed with a slight personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, and psychotic disorder. It is said at the time of his trial he was convicted of killing, raping, and dismembering seventeen men and boys. At the time of trial he seemed completely aware of what he did and not insane. In his early childhood he was always fascinated by bones of animals and interested to know how to preserve them. He was described as always wanting the power. When he lured his victims to his house he would knock them out with sleeping pills so they wouldn't fight him and he had control. He had a relativity normal childhood except his mother and father didn't pay attention to him so he never bonded with anyone, and in high school became addicted to alcohol.

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Gary Ridgway fits the profile of a serial killer because he would choke his victim to show that he is in control. He would bring a prostitute into his car and then show them a picture of his son. He would usually later go back and have sex with those decomposing bodies. Gary at 16 took a 6 year old boy out into the woods and stabbed him, walking away laughing and said, "I always wondered what it would be like to kill someone". Ridgway was convicted for killing 49 women and later said he killed double that. He is locked away for life now.

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Ted Bundy:  I believe that Ted Bundy does exhibit the traits that the article states can be used to spot a serial killer.

A Power Junkie: He decapitated at least 12 of his victims, and kept some of the severed heads in his apartment for a period of time as mementos. On a few occasions, he simply broke into dwellings at night and bludgeoned his victims as they slept.

A Manipulator: He typically approached them in public places, feigning injury or disability, or impersonating an authority figure, before overpowering and assaulting them at more secluded locations.

An Egotistical Bragger: He sometimes revisited his secondary crime scenes for hours at a time, grooming and performing sexual acts with the decomposing corpses until purification and destruction by wild animals made further interaction impossible.

A Superficial charmer: Bundy was regarded as handsome and charismatic by his young female victims, traits he exploited to win their trust.

An Average Joe: Classmates from Woodrow Wilson High School told Rule, however, that Bundy was "well known and well liked" there, "a medium-sized fish in a large pond".

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Yes, Ted Bundy is an example of a serial killer that contains some of the traits mentioned in the article.  He used his charm to manipulate women to becoming comfortable around them and then he would rape and kill them.  Also, it is believed that Bundyś experience and break-up with his wealthy girlfriend while in college was the initiation of his killing spree.  He began with killing young women who resembled his girlfriend, after he raped them.  He was also very confident and involved in the community and politics, which is another aspect the article addresses.  He was manipulate people into believing he needed help, like wearing fake braces and such, and his victim´s kindness is what ended up getting them killed.

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Ted Bundy
A Power Junkie:
Bundy demonstrated many sings that he was a power junkie like when he was convicted for thirty six murders but would not admit to the rest of the murders experts believe him to of committed  or when he raped the bodies of his victim demonstrating power over them.
A Manipulator:
He would manipulate people all the time to get them to help him because they thought he was hurt or because he would pose as a person of power.
An Egotistical Bragger:
he would not directly brag about his crimes but he did take some pride in the crimes he committed
A Superficial charmer:
Bundy was considered by many people a very charming person winning the trust of many victims and making them trust him
An Average Joe:
he did not stand out as a weird person he seemed like an everyday oe but he was not as you can tell from his multiple murders.

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Ted Bundy
Bundy does fit the profile. As a child he was shy and kept mostly to himself. Victims that escaped said that he was charming and charismatic. He lured his victims in by manipulating them into his car. He would act hurt or sick with a sling on his arm and ask for help. These woman's kindness was their downfall. He would rape and kill woman who resembled his ex girlfriend. He was very confident when he got older and became more social in politics and the community.

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David Berkowitz: David was known for being an Intelligent kid growing up. He joined the U.S Army, and then worked at a postoffice. His coworkers also described him as a "quiet loner". He mentioned that his neighbor had instructed him to kill people through his dog. David also began to taunt the police, leaving a letter for a police captain near the scene. In his note, Berkowitz called himself the Son of Sam.

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Pedro Alonzo Lopez
He seems to be an egotistical bragger because he was telling inmates of the murders he had done. But he also could be put as a power junkie. in his childhood he was sexually assaulted multiple times in a way dominated so when he decided to go after girls he did it in a way to feel powerful. He would sexually assault possibly to feel powerful and feel like the alpha. He also could in some cases be considered an average Joe he was arrested before his final arrest and was released and they never suspected him as a murderer during that time.

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Jeffrey Dahmer:
Jeffrey fits most of the descriptions of a serial killer. When he was a kid, he used to dismember dead animals and store their bones in jars. He once asked his dad to teach him how to bleach and preserve bones. He justified this behavior by saying that he was just interested in anatomy and science. In high school, he was known to be very polite and intelligent. He seemed to be normal, participating in tennis and band, although he had very few friends. Dahmer brags about his murders in great detail and he is very proud when he's able to tell anyone about the things he has done. In his childhood, he was neglected and his parents would fight a lot. He wasn't abused, but he did suffer from some psychological trauma due to the neglect and constant hostile environment in which he was raised. He was able to manipulate people in many different ways in order to get them into his home, where he would drug them and beat them to death. He would then dismember them in the bathtub while masturbating with their organs. He saved all the skulls and some of the skeletons so he could reassemble the ones that he 'liked'

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Richard Chase : Richard does fit the description because in his childhood his mother would abuse him. Before he killed humans he would capture and kill animals and take them back to his apartment and dismember them and then put them in a blender mixed with coco cola and then drink them so this guy defiantly has some problems. Richard has a strange habit of drinking blood and that got him the nickname of Dracula. Richards murders consist of some of the most inhumane acts I could ever think of, and the fact that he was in Sacramento is even more frightening because it is so close to were we live. Richard claimed that his killing was not his fault he had to do it in order to stay alive. Richard did some things that I think even the other serial killers would think is inhumane because Richard was a sick sick man. His nickname was the Dracula of Sacramento because he loved to drink blood he was addicted to it. Richard fits the description of a serial killer because he had a mental illness that promoted him to kill. Richard couldn't help but kill and that is disturbing to me.

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Jeffrey Dahmer: Yes, Jeffrey does fit the typical profile if a serial killer. Jeffrey's life as a child wasn't horrible but there are things that changed him and made him less interested. Jeffrey raped most of the men that he killed. During his killing spree he mostly looked for African American men at gay meeting places. Jeffrey also was a superficial charmer. He knew how to talk his way into getting a shorter term in jail and also and early release.

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Ted Bundy:

A Power Junkie:He has been described as a sadistic sociopath who took pleasure from another human's pain and the control he had over his victims, to the point of death, and even after.
A Manipulator: He typically approached his victims in public places, feigning injury or disability, or impersonating an authority figure
An Egotistical Bragger: He sometimes revisited his secondary crime scenes for hours at a time, performing sexual acts with the decomposing corpses.
A Superficial charmer: Bundy was regarded as handsome and charismatic by his young female victims, traits he exploited to win their trust.
An Average Joe:Ted Bundy was raised by his grandparents in a fairly normal household and he said himself that he was a relatively normal person before his porn addiction which he says turned him into a serial killer.

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Kenneth Alessio BIANCHI:
He does fit the profile of needed power. He often wanted to put women in their place by killing them. They were often much younger and smaller than him further asserting power. He was indeed a manipulator; when put on trial he faked having a mental illness by pretending that another one of him personas did it. Both him and his cousin, who helped  with the murders, pretended to be police in order to lure the girls in before killing them as well. He did indeed have a rough childhood as well. His mother was a prostitute who soon put him up for adoption. He did have a lot of health problems that could have affected his brain too such as his passive aggressive disorder and his seizures. He didn't fit the profile in the sense that he was a pillar in the community though he only worked small jobs and was not part of the community in a big sense.

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Jeffrey Dahmer: In my opinion Dahmer does fit the typical profile of a serial killer. Dahmer liked to be in power and he often had fantasies of having dominance over other men during intercourse. He also used his problems with hos parents at home as an excuse to drink at school. he also had been known to lure people to his home with false promises.He also seemed just like a normal guy on the outside. He once convinced the cops that a victim was his lover and that they had got in a fight and they let the victim go home with him

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John Gacy:
Yes he does fit the description. John Gacy was known as an "average Joe", he worked as a clown at birthday parties. He grew up with a father who was always drunk and faced an abusive childhood. Gacy was also seperated from other kids at school and was always left out. When Gacy was arrested he confessed the murders had been committed by an alternate personality.

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Richard Chase was abused by his mother as a child and showed psychotic tendencies by the age of ten, including arsonism and cruelty to animals. In his adolescence he was known as an alcoholic and a druggie. As he entered adulthood, he developed hypochondria. He suffered from delusions, such as thinking that his cranial bones were separated and moving around. He would drink a concoction of coca-cola and animal organs to keep his heart from shrinking. After being institutionalized against his will, he was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. He shot his victims, raped them, drank their blood, and ate their organs because he thought his heart was shrinking.

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Ted Bundy:
Bundy definitely fits the profile. His childhood was not "abusive" but cerainly messed up. His grandparents raised him as their son and he was told that his mom was his older sister. When he found out the truth, he was angry.
He also fits the "Average Joe" profile. He was described to be a "superficial charmer" and handsome, and charismatic. He would often fake an injury in order to get sympathy or pose as a police officer to gain trust. He would then kidnap and take his victims to more secluded locations to rape, beat, and murder them.
He sometimes revisited his crime scenes, grooming and performing sexual acts with his decomposing victims. He also decapitated a few and kept their heads as momentos.
Before sentenced to death, he admitted to 30 murders, although there are believed to be more. He once called himself, "the most cold-hearted son of a b**** you'll ever meet"

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Gary Ridgway otherwise known as the Green River Killer, admitted to murdering 49 women in Washington from 1982- 2001 when he was finally caught. Gary latter told police he had killed more than 70 women. Ridgway would go out find prostitutes take them home and then strangle them. Gary fits the description of #3 on How to spot a serial killer. Gary didn't have a problem with bragging about his murders and the number of women he killed, he was proud of it. Ridgway made a confession that will allow police to use  it through out time if they find  body and can link it to him. Also, Gary fits the description of #5 the average joe. This killer kept a job for over 30 years, was very religious, and had been through three marriages. Overall, i'd say Gary fits the description he was boastful about his killings, and managed to maintain a facade of a normal life.

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Gary Ridgway fit the profile for being manipulative. Gary would go out and find prostitutes, show them a picture of his son to gain their trust and would go have sex with them. After they were done, he would strangle them from behind. Gary had a troubled childhood. He would witness his parents fight and he wet the bed till 14 years old. When he wet the bed, his mother would make him walk to the bathroom naked and she would bathe him, which aroused him and embarrassed him. Gary at 16 took a 6 year old boy out into the woods and stabbed him, walking away laughing and said, "I always wondered what it would be like to kill someone". Ridgway was convicted for killing 49 women and later said he killed double that. He is locked away for life now.

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The serial killer I have chosen fits parts of the profile. Dr. Harold Fredric Shipman grew up with a stable family around him. Besides his mother passing away and Shipman being the center of attention, he grew up relatively normal life. He was an isolated person who was described as a charmer. Dr. Shipman was thought to be trust worthy because he was a doctor and had a normal life. He was very caring of his patients and loved his wife and kids. While being investigated, Dr. Shipman manipulated the suspision around him. He was cleared only because the paperwork from the passed away patients seemed to match what the autopsy said. Dr. Shipman chose to kill his patients because he already established a sense of power and authority over them. One part of the profile that did not fit was being egotistical. He was a doctor so he already had pride in himself and bragged about that. However, he never tried to brag about his victims. Dr. Harold Fredric Shipman was a serial killer but did not fit every aspect of the profile. He was indeed a charmer, manipulator, and a power junky but he had a good family and did not brag.

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Richard Chase:
Yes, Richard Chase matches the profile of a serial killer as described in the article. Chase not only was abused as a child, but also started taking drugs at a young age.  Chase started killing animals when he was young which eventually led to killing humans.  Not only would Chase kill strangers, he would often rape and defecate on them.  Early on chase showed signs of mental illness when he believed insane things like his cranial bones were moving so he needed to shave his head so he could observe them.  Chase was taken to an institution but was released later on by his mother. After He began to live by himself he killed six people and was caught  when he left fingerprints all over the crime scene.  Chase was not a charmer, manipulator, or a power hungry person but he had a rough life at home when he was younger and had taken serious drugs. He was charged with murder and committed suicide in jail by overdose of prescribed drugs he had been saving up.

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Jeff Dahmer:
Yes, Jeff Dahmer does fit his profile. At his trial, he was diagnosed with several personality disorders but was found legally sane. He was classified as a serial killer and a sex offender, who raped and murdered 17 men and boys. Later, he was guilty of many more murders. He described his childhood with "extreme tension". His mom was always greedy for attention and always so tensed up. He was always seen as an outcast by his friends and peers. In elementary school he and his friends would collect bugs and insect carcasses and put them in bottles. This was the first sign of mental illness. He had a drinking problem that started very early, family issues and tension throughout his family.

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Dr. Harold Shipman:
Absolutely. Harold Shipman was a charismatic well liked and respected middle class doctor. With approximated 215 confirmed murders under his belt, this seemingly normal and caring family doctor manipulated his patients/victims (Usually elderly women) into thinking they needed to be treated via high dosages of pain killers. The usual being morphine injected through a syringe. He also supposedly killed his mom while caring for her during his early adulthood due to her affiliation with cancer.

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Richard Chase:
Chase matches several of the characteristics of a typical serial killer.  He was abused by his mother throughout his childhood and showed signs of violence as early as age 10 where he would kill and dismember the bodies of animals.  Early on he developed
delusions about his health, believing his heart was shrinking and that it would stop beating sometimes.  This led to his obsession with animal blood because he believed drinking it would cure his heart problems.  Clearly he was psychotic and later when he was institutionalized he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.  His murders were committed with a gun but had sexual elements as well as personal gain.  He was a necrophiliac as well as a cannibal.  He showed obvious signs of delusion and mental illness however during his trial he was found not legally insane.  He was dubbed "The Vampire of Sacramento".  I would describe him as an act-focused killer, a lust killer as well as a gain killer.  He made no attempt to hide his delusions so he was not like many killers who seem normal on the outside.

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Dennis Rader
He first started murdering people in 1974. Soon after his first murder, he started putting letters for the police to find. He wanted attention from the media. His letters were put in the news paper telling the police who me murdered and what he wants them to call him. His nickname was BTK which stands for Bind them, Torture them, Kill them. He matches the characteristics of a serial killer because he takes things from the victim to remember them. He gets sexual pleasure from killing people in the manner that he did. He paused his killings in 1980 and continued again in 2004 and arrested in 2005. Him coming back was a way for him to get attention again. He was charged with 10 accounts of murder.

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Edmund Kemper:
He was diagnosed as being psychotic and paranoid schizophrenic. He is known as the Co-Ed Butcher. He was known for as a serial killer, rapist, necrophiliac, and cannibal who killed several women as well as his paternal grandparents and his mother.

He was percieved by his victims as a gentle giant; non-threatening and innocent looking. This gave him a huge advantage when luring his victims into his car so he could take them somewhere and kill them.

His IQ was in the genius range. He turned himself in which fits with the "Egotistical Bragger" part of the profile. He wanted people to know what he had done.

As a child he was extremely bright, but also extremely antisocial. He would display psychotic behavior such as cruelty to animals including burying a pet cat alive, and then after it was dead, decapitating it and mounting its head on a spike.

He was close to his father, but his parents eventually separated. He went to live with his mother. She was an alcoholic and verbally abused him and his sisters.

Everyone thought he was an average Joe. People who knew him thought that he was charming.

He would usually rape his victims after he had killed and dismembered him. He described the experiences as empowering.

Similarities to Serial Killer Profile:
1. Power Junkie: check
2. Manipulator: check
3. An Egotistical Bragger: sort of check
4. Superficial Charmer: check
5. An Average Joe: check
6. Abused as a child: check
7. Mentally Ill: check

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The serial killer I chose to write about is Edmund Kemper. This man was known for being a serial killer, a rapist, necrophiliac, and a cannibal. His criminal streak began when he was only 15 years after he had murdered his grandparents. After this instance, Edmund was diagnosed as being psychotic and a paranoid schizophrenic. As a punishment, he was sentenced to five years in a insane juvenile detention center. Upon his release, young female victims would regard him as being innocent and non-threatening thus, perfectly playing the part  of an average Joe. Edmund's tendency to glance at his watch and avoid making eye contact with his victims earned him the persona of a "gentle giant". Such actions are childlike and the more childish an individual appears to be, the more others want to believe that they are innocent. The more innocent a person appears, the more likely we are to come to trust them and comply with what they want done, all the while thinking that we are doing them a favor. In Edmund's case, this was all just an act. He was definitely a superficial charmer. Once he lured his victims into his car, Edmund would then drive them to an isolated area where he would murder them and take their corpses home to be violated and desecrated. Even worse, he was known to keep the severed heads of his victims for several days before he disposed them. To finish his streak, Edmund murdered his mother and one of her friends before turning himself into the authorities. He asked for the death penalty but at this point in time such an act was temporary suspended in California. Instead Edmund received eight life sentences and since then he has been incinerated in the California Medical Facility. Turning himself in, it can be concluded that Edmund was a power junkie and an egotistical bragger as well. He wanted the public to know what he had done as well as show that he had no regrets for it. Edmund wanted to have control over how he was going to go out, hence him asking for the death penalty. It was his final wish to show that he did not fear death and to tell the public that there was anything they could do to him to make him repent his sins. In conclusion, Edmund Kemper definitely matches up with the description of a serial killer.

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Gary Ridgway:
He fits most of the profiling for being a serial killer. He had a desire for sex and control. He also was a charmer as he would hook up with girls and strangle them after having sex with them. He just lived a usual life and would seem normal other than his raging desire for sex which his co workers would recount how much he talked about it. He had a troubled love life and a family life growing up. He was always fighting with his parents and did not get good grades so his mom would make him march to the bathroom naked and bathe him which made him feel violent and sexual fantasies about his own mother. He stabbed a 6 year old boy when he was 16 and the 6 year old boy survived and as Gary was walking away the 6 year old claims he was laughing and saying, "I always wondered what it was like to kill someone". So he was almost born crazy and it only got worse. He was such a charmer as he was married and would cheat on his wives with random girls or prostitutes and choke them out after. He loved to brag about his murders after he was caught and talked to police he was proud of what he did and claimed murdering young women as his career.

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Ted Bundy:
He definitely fits into the manipulator category.  He was a good looking and charismatic guy that would lure people in and then murder them.  He was a bragger and would keep the severed heads of some of his victims as trophies.  He loved the control and the feeling of power he would have over his victims.  Also, if you didn't know about his horrendous actions if you walked by him on the street you would have no idea he was a serial killer.

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Dr. Harold Fredrick Shipman:
Shipman fits into the manipulator characteristic, as well as being an average joe since he was a normal ordinary doctor. He also liked having control over life and death, therefore he got a thrill off of controlling death.  After his mother died, he became interested in medicine, and became a doctor. He was a well respected doctor by the community. He was found guilty for the murders of 15 people, but it is confirmed he is responsible for about 218 deaths. He would administer lethal doses of drugs into patients, then lie on the death certificates. He used his title as a doctor to cover up his murders, by persuading them not to get an autopsy and have the bodies cremated. From 1975-1998, he successfully killed over 200 people. He committed suicide in prison the night before his 58th birthday.

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Jeffery Dahmer:
Yes, he does fit the profile. He was diagnosed with different kinds of personality disorders, but found to be legally sane. He was seen as an outcast, but also to be polite and intelligente. He was also known as a class clown for all his pranks. So he seemed to be an average joe. He also develped the power hungry trait when he realized he was homosexual and had dominant fantisies. He also had some family issues, mostly tension, and developed a drinking problem.

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Dr. Harold Fredrick Shipman
- He fits the profile. He was the favorite child to his mother, she left him with not many friends and very isolated. He saw his mother get sick with lung cancer and basically watch her pass away over a period of time. He then got married and had 2 children and became a medical practitioner. He then became addicted to pain medication where he left his practice. Later in his life he began working as a doctor, where everyone respected him and somewhat looked up to him. He was also looked at as kind of strange but not abnormally strange. His colleagues noticed his patients dying at an unusually fast rate and after a lot of looking and investigating they found that he had forged medical records to coincide with their death so none asked questions and he forged will’s to leave estates and money to him. He had also convinced many families to cremate their family members and avoid autopsies, even if the cause of death was unknown prior to the cremation. In the end they estimated about 236 deaths in a 24 year period.

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Dr. Harold Fredrick Shipman

The doctor fits the profile of a serial killer. He like to have control over life and death.  He loved being able to take someone's life away for the thrill of it.  He would use his title of "doctor" to persuade patients and their families after the patients "died".  He would convince the families to not get an autopsy for the passed loved ones, and then tried to convince them to have the body cremated. He did this so there would be no evidence that he was the killer, since a real cause of death would not be established by the doctor performing the autopsy and no evidence would be left behind if the bodies were destroyed.  While in trial he was constantly changing his stories, and never denied any accusations given to him.  Sort of a non-discreet bragging method in my opinion.  Since he was a doctor, he easily worked with older people and the older people had high trust with him.  This gave him a charm over people and made them never question his medical advice.  He was somewhat an average joe, just a normal doctor by the looks of him.  Nothing strange looking about him.  He was never abused as a child but lost his mother in his early life.  She died of lung cancer and that made him want to go to medical school, ultimately leading to his killing spree.

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John Wayne Gacy

John Wayne Gacy fits the bill for serial killers. He was a manipulative person who influenced young boys for sexual and violent reasons. He was also a charmer, doing well in business and becoming a model inmate in prison. During his prison stay for sodomy, Gacy was head cook, and was seen as a friend by many inmates and jail officials. Gacy was known to dress up as a clown for parades and charitable events. He was well known in the community as a charitable person. His clown persona is where he earned the name "The Killer Clown". His childhood was affected by his alcoholic and abusive father. He was also frequently molested by a close family friend. Throughout his life, he was able to charm his friends and neighbors, keeping his criminal history hidden, and getting away with numerous counts of molestation and rape. Numerous marriages were ruined, and soon Gacy stayed single in order to have young boys at his house as often as his wanted. He claimed that murder was "the ultimate thrill" and frequently experienced orgasms as he murdered.

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Edmund Kemper:

Also knows as the "Co-ed killer", Edmund Kemper became known as not only a serial killer but as a rapist, necrophile, and a cannibal. Some of his victims included his own mother, his paternal grandparents, and several women.

In his early life, Edmund was smart, but he was incredibly antisocial and was very cruel to animals; he killed his family's cat and cut off the head to mount it on a spike. He also had a bad relationship with his mother who would abuse him mentally. The abuse from her is a factor of why he became a serial killer; he later killed his mother and her friend. Even at the age of 15, he murdered his grandparents after an argument with a rifle.

While in prison for killing his grandparents, he learned from administering psychological tests; this helped him to become manipulative of the psychologists. This is a key factor because most serial killers are manipulative of other people. During his time in prison, he also learned from other rapists that "it was important to kill witnesses after a rape".

When he was let out of prison, he was able to live with his mother and attend community college. He even wanted to become a state trooper but was rejected for being too tall; he maintained friendships with some of the officers and was often thought of as friendly. When he moved out due to the toxic relationship between his mother, he began to pick up his serial instincts again; he picked up around 150 women hitchhikers in that time and began becoming more manipulative. He was also charming and very charismatic to the people who he interacted him.

During his killing spree, he would manipulate the women into coming into his car; he would then strangle them and bring their bodies back to his house. Then he would take them to isolated areas where he would shoot, stab, smother or strangle his victims. He would then take their lifeless bodies back to his home where he would have sex with their corpses, dissect them, and then dismember them.

So, with a drive for power over his victims, being manipulative and charming to the people he met, being an "average guy", and having a past of parental abuse, his characteristics and lifestyle made him who he was: a serial killer.

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Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Dahmer does fit the identity of a serial killer. In his early life and childhood he was known as the quite and withdrawn child in school that kept to himself. He was first drawn towards death and murder at a young age of 14 due to his parents constant arguing and fighting in the household. Dahmer released all of his built up angst by killing animals in his yard. Throughout the rest of his life he fit in like any other person and was an "average Joe" in society. He also wanted to be the dominant one, especially in relationships. In his early relationships he drugged his partner to sleep so that he could control all of the movement during intercourse. Jeffrey Dahmer was a charming man who was known as nice and reserved. He posed as homosexual so that he could go into gay bars and take men home and rape and kill them. He used his calm and reserved demeanor to pull off such deeds. Jeffrey Dahmer overall was a calm and collected person who pulled off over 17 murders with his charm and his ability to blend in, but did what he did because of his need for dominance.