Serial Killers are the group of people who kill, kill and kill over a longer period of time without being caught or stopped. Unlike mass murderers, who may kill many people at one time - majority of the time because of circumstantial behavior - Serial Killers are a different breed. They plan, very specific in their choice of victims and are mobile. They are a real threat to the society. Their choice of victims range from adolescents to old-age people, prostitutes to homosexuals having a few common characteristics: inability to defend, if missed remain unnoticed by the society or any physical trait. The worrisome affair is that the serial killing machine keeps on playing the life & death game until stopped.
Psychiatrists have long studied the behavioral patterns of serial killers and murderers. Donald Lund, a psychiatrist, concludes; that there are two broad-based categories; one termed as paranoid schizophrenia and the as sexual sadism. Majority of them is men and they are......
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