Serial Killers
Christmas is a time for giving, eating, being merry etc. etc. etc. ad nauseum. The cynic in you may view Christmas as a period of decadence and rampant hyper-consumerism. But even the most hardened cynic couldn't equate Christmas with serial killing and the attendant morbid fascination that grips society when they realise a crazed murdered is on the loose. The recent murders in Ipswich have thus piqued my interest in serial killers.
A quick search of Wikipedia gives a country-by-country breakdown of serial killers. However, I must admit that with the ability of the authorities to monitor Internet usage I was quite anxious about typing Jack the Ripper or Son of Sam into search engines for fear of a knock on the door. Fearless, I began to read about all the famous, mostly white middle-aged male, serial killers.Jack the Ripper is known worldwide, but was never caught. Police were unable to ascertain how many people he did ultimately murder, but were pretty sure he had some sort of medical background due to his propensity for removing organs like kidneys and ovaries.
A Russian serial killer by the name of Andrei Chikatilo hasn't achieved as much notoriety due to the censorship of the Russian state media during the Soviet era. He grew up during the Ukrainian famine caused by Stalin's collectivisation programme and had a troubled childhood. His murders were characterised by an association of sex and violent aggression, leading to a situation whereby he 'would achieve orgasm only when he stabbed the victim to death'.
The tabloids have begun to unimaginatively label this new murderer the 'Suffolk Ripper', even though there is no evidence of any mutilation. Apart from Jack the Ripper, the next most famous ripper is Peter Sutcliffe, aka the Yorkshire Ripper. He convicted of murdering 13 women and attacked many more in a campaign which spanned 5 years. Police had Sutcliffe on a list of suspects and interviewed him on several occasions but never emerged as a chief suspect. He was arrested in January 1981 for being in a car with a prostitute and having false number plates. When the police stripped him they found he was 'wearing a V-neck pullover under his trousers; the arms had been pulled over his legs, so that the V-neck exposed his groin; the elbows were padded to protect his knees as, presumably, he knelt over his victims' corpses.
Happy Christmas!:)
tags:Serial Killers
Published by El Commandant P.
A quick search of Wikipedia gives a country-by-country breakdown of serial killers. However, I must admit that with the ability of the authorities to monitor Internet usage I was quite anxious about typing Jack the Ripper or Son of Sam into search engines for fear of a knock on the door. Fearless, I began to read about all the famous, mostly white middle-aged male, serial killers.Jack the Ripper is known worldwide, but was never caught. Police were unable to ascertain how many people he did ultimately murder, but were pretty sure he had some sort of medical background due to his propensity for removing organs like kidneys and ovaries.
A Russian serial killer by the name of Andrei Chikatilo hasn't achieved as much notoriety due to the censorship of the Russian state media during the Soviet era. He grew up during the Ukrainian famine caused by Stalin's collectivisation programme and had a troubled childhood. His murders were characterised by an association of sex and violent aggression, leading to a situation whereby he 'would achieve orgasm only when he stabbed the victim to death'.
The tabloids have begun to unimaginatively label this new murderer the 'Suffolk Ripper', even though there is no evidence of any mutilation. Apart from Jack the Ripper, the next most famous ripper is Peter Sutcliffe, aka the Yorkshire Ripper. He convicted of murdering 13 women and attacked many more in a campaign which spanned 5 years. Police had Sutcliffe on a list of suspects and interviewed him on several occasions but never emerged as a chief suspect. He was arrested in January 1981 for being in a car with a prostitute and having false number plates. When the police stripped him they found he was 'wearing a V-neck pullover under his trousers; the arms had been pulled over his legs, so that the V-neck exposed his groin; the elbows were padded to protect his knees as, presumably, he knelt over his victims' corpses.
Happy Christmas!:)
tags:Serial Killers
Published by El Commandant P.
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