Annotative Bib

Canter, David, et al. “Predicting Serial Killers' Home Base Using a Decision Support
System.” SpringerLink, Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers, 2000,
link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1007551316253.
The use of a geographical choice is a backing tool for finding the base of serial
offenders. There was tracks applied to the body disposal locations within each
sequence for 70 U.S. serial killers. Two regularization restrictions were
compared for all functions. The test of success was a specifically defined
measure of search cost. When applied to the Dragnet predictions it was found
that the specially developed normalization parameter produced the best search
costs. The best search cost was also found to be for a function that did not
include any shield zone. The best, average search cost across the whole sample
was 11%, fifty-one percent of the offenders lived in the first 5% of the search
area, with 87% in the first 25%. All lived in the total defined search area. These
results support the possible for working tools using such actions as well as
paying to our understanding of criminal's geographical behavior. Other
behaviors are also considered.

Egger, Steven A. “Killers Among Us: An Examination of Serial Murder and Its
Investigation.” National Criminal Justice Reference Service, 1998,
www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=180933.
There are many theories of the different aspect of the life of a serial killer. With in
them there is what is called the six myths. The first one is known for believing the
serial killers had a terrible childhood full of abuse. Two is believed that the serial
killers are just simply being that came straight from hell, and they can be singled
out because the have abnormal ways of behaving. Number three is about the
killers not choosing their victims most of the time, they just pick who ever crosses
their paths and then begin their routine. The next one explaining the ability of
being able to elude the path of police officers, they know how to hide their paths
very good, well, at least for some time until they get caught. Five, is that they had
rare relationships with their mothers, they usually travel alone across large
geographic areas, they know the procedures police use for criminal investigations
and choose victims that are weak and helpless. Final myth is that the Federal
Bureau of Investigation investigates all serial murders since most of them cross
State lines.

Kaplan, Sarah. “The Surprising but Curiously Logical Differences between Male and
Female Serial Killers.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 6 Mar. 2015,
www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/06/inside-the-minds-
of-female-serial-killers/?utm_term=.24c916a33f02.
 Studies show that there are differences between a male and a female serial killer.
Yes, there are female serial killers, many of us wonder how a female can be a
murder when they are supposed to have a motherly figure. Well even the
unexpected can do the unimaginable. The reason for women killing usually is for
resources while men kill for sexual pleasure, which brings to my next point that
men usually have a childhood of physical abuse and women have a childhood of
sexual abuse. Women also tend to know their victims fore carefully, they are
premeditated and usually do the killings in the home of the victim where the men
are totally the opposite, they don’t know their victims they kill when they feel like
it and they usually do it in the streets or in another place other than the victims
home.

Mehrotra, Akarsh. “20 Of the Most Notorious Serial Killers the World Has Ever Seen.”
Scoop Whoop, 12 June 2015, www.scoopwhoop.com/world/most-evil-serial-
killers/.
There are many serial killers that naming each and one of them would be
impossible to do in one sitting. There are many sites and informational sources
that always categorizes the worst scenarios giving a brief explanation of who the
serial killer is and what his crime was. One of the killers that seems to always
appear in these list is Jeffery Dahmer. He is a serial killer known for
dismembering his victims, taking pictures of them, keeping body parts and even
committed cannibalism with some of the dead corps. His victims were known to
be young men, since he had a thing for men. His fantasy started by killing
animals, opening them up because of his curiousness and them putting them in
jars with chemicals. His curiosity did not stop so it lead him to human.

Mitchell, Heather, and Michael G. Aamodt. “The Incidence of Child Abuse in Serial
Killers.” SpringerLink, Springer US, Mar. 2005,
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02806705.
Killers who murdered for the main goal of reaching sexual satisfaction, called
lust killers, were victims themselves involving childhood abuse. Information on
the childhood abuse continued by each killer was found mostly from
informational sources. Abuse was characterized into physical abuse, sexual
abuse, psychological abuse, and neglect and was then compared to social
standards from 2001. Abuse of all types apart from neglect was significantly
higher in the serial killer population. The frequency of “physical abuse was
36%; sexual abuse was 26%; and psychological abuse was 50%... Neglect was
18%” for serial killers.