Serial Killers looking past the image Nature Vs. Nuture

When a person hears the two words serial killer a wave of fear spreads through out the body. But should we be so quick to judge? Yes Serial killers are warped minded indiviuals who kill multiple amounts of people but I have always wanted to know why.

Why and How could that much anger be put into such violence? Did they just have a bad day that day? Or is there really something more to it?

I have studied many different serial killers and tried to find a correlation between all of them that would some how connect them. There actions of course are wrong, but understanding what motives them and causes this maybe one day could prevent it.

We are not asked to come into this world. Our presence therefore can be unwelcome by the parent (s). It could also by the fact that our parents may have gone through trouble ordeals because of their parents, this could lead them to develop the same parenting skills because they do not know other wise. But some have broke free of this.

In psychology an arguement emerges. Nature vs. Nuture. Many psychologist argue that we are chemically designed to be a certain way or we are taught this way through our environments. I believe it is both. The main reason is because someone could have a corrupt gene but be raised by great parents and never kill a single person in their life. Another person might not have any corrupt genes and be raised by awful parents in a bad environment and end up killing. Or often a corrupt gene could develop from a parent's own corruption towards the child?

As I look at the different cases of serial killers I notice that alot of them had corrupt parents who either neglected them, beat them, treated them badly, or just abandoned them. But this does not hold true for all serial killers.

Charles Manson was a very sick indiviual. Many people do not realise though that he was highly intelligent. If you watch his interviews and set aside his crazy demeanor, you can see how smart he is. This is also a common trait for serial killers. This is a reason why it takes along time for serial killers to get caught. Charles Manson's mother was a hooker, she also abandoned Manson as a child. It is also a common thing that serial killers kill women because of their own mother.

Say their mother abandoned them. They get older and it bothers them but they finally meet a women and start liking her. The women screws them over and the cycle contuines. That person will not trust women and find their motives undesirable. But this doesn't always lead to a serial killer either. I found that if they are given guidence by another adult and treated well they normally will turn out fine and not kill anyone. The lack of guidence breeds confusion in the person's process of finding themselves and maintaining relationships with others.

Ted Bundy is pretty well known. His awful killing sprees of women and torture were very hard for me to deal with. At a young age he was putting knives under his aunt's bed smiling. This is an example of how a corrupt gene... can emerge. His mother never married and he did not know his father. A mental disorder could have been likely, like I suspect in alot of serial killers but who knows. He was also raised to believe his grandparents were his parents and that his mother was his sister. This probably did not help his situation out. All we will know about Ted Bundy is that he killed approximately (maybe) 100 women. The strange thing was they all had brown hair.

One strange case is that of Jeffery Dahmar. He was molested by a male neighbor but it was never reported. His parent's fought frequently later divorcing. The interesting thing I found out about him is he seemed to have remorse for what he did. Most serial killers lack the capablity to have remorse. As he got older Dahmar would bar hop and pick up men. He would bring them home and try to get to know them better. The first man wanted to leave..and Dahmar killed him. After his parent's divorced he was left alone. Neither parent thought to take Dahmar with them when they moved. Abandonment seemed to play a huge role in Dahmar's life. Although he was sick as well (because he killed and ate his male "friends") it seemed like his parents did not help his situation. It seemed like he killed because the fear of abandonment, if he killed people they could be with him forever.

So with all the information in front of us we can conclude that serial killers are infact to be feared. The only thing that we may want to look at now is the fact that their childhood had a huge role into their killing sprees. Corrupt genes can play a role as much as a person's childhood. Many of you will say well I was abandoned and all this bad stuff happened to me and I do not kill people. This may be true but it seems that serial killers can not find that guidence they need. Infact their brains were a different pattern than a normal person's brain when given CT scans. So nature vs. nuture...no Nature and Nuture play a huge role in the development of our mind.