“Serial killers...usually they share some specific traits...”
I read about a study of psychopaths which noted that almost all in the study had been separated from their mothers before the age of three, for a significant period of time. Ted Bundy’s biographical data was included in the study.
Birth to age three is the time when babies bond with their mothers thru breast or bottle feeding.
They are held, kissed, smiled at. Thus they bond with another person and experience the exchange of basic emotions-—gratitude, need, tenderness, protectiveness, empathy.
The psychopaths in the study had had this bonding process disrupted and had failed to develop these normal human emotions.
As children and developing adults, they’d had to study other people in order to **mimic**normal emotions.
Yep, that and other traits are usually present with serial killers, wish I could remember it all. Too much info crammed into this old head. I think it was Dahmer was also separated from his mother, Ed Gein went full tilt psycho when his mother died, she had been an intensely demanding, controlling mother all his life, told him from childhood how wicked women were, still had him living at home completely under her thumb when she died.
Reading about Gein was a cross between interesting as could be and scary as hell...he ended up killing at least 2 women and robbing a number of graves to make clothing and other items from skins he got robbing graves. Also suspected of killing his brother. Here are some things found at his house when he was finally arrested.
Human skulls mounted upon the cornerposts of his bed
Human skin fashioned into a lampshade and used to upholster chair seats
Human skullcaps, apparently in use as soup bowls
A human heart (it is disputed where the heart was found; the deputies’ reports all claim that the heart was in a saucepan on the stove, with some crime scene photographers claiming it was in a paper bag)
The head of Mary Hogan, a local tavern owner, found in a paper bag
And more...from here
http://www.wisconsinsickness.com/ed-gein/
Really sick puppy. It’s been surmised that the personality of Hannibal Lechter, the character in Silence of the Lambs, was a composite derived from traits of Gein, Bundy and one other, I think it was John Wayne Gacy or maybe Dahmer. Gein was also part of the character Buffalo Bill, that part seems to be confirmed. Looking at Lechter, if you know anything about these types, traits of several can be seen.
Sick stuff, I know, but not well understood by the general public at all, most people see little more than the news reports, which often don’t have anywhere near the true scope of the horrendous acts committed by such people. Many people know Ted Bundy killed at least 36 women. Few know he raped some of the last few after killing them, used various weapons and his bare hands, preferred Volkswagens, and had the passenger seat removed to make it easier to get them in and hidden...He also told one reporter that the official body count was one digit off. (Ann Rule I think it was) She never knew if he meant 136 or 360...she had also worked in the same office with him at one time, while his killings were in progress. She wrote an excellent book about Bundy.
Just found this looking around for some other facts, since it’s hard to remember all this. “Murderpedia”, which looks like a pretty reliable site, with several articles about Gein and an alphabetical index. I’ll be looking through there for more...I’ve studied this stuff for a long time. Just one of the many things I’ve done some serious digging into...it’s interesting, if you can stay detached and view it as an academic exercise...
http://www.murderpedia.org/male.G/g/gein-edward.htm