[Conservative Texan Mom]

Wolfstar, you may be right about the rage, but I have a different take. These other cases that I've been reading often refer to the perp as wanting to kill the child's innocence. These perps have a tremendous amount of rage inside of them, and it comes across in the murders they commit. They especially enjoy this stuff, and watching the victim suffer gives them great pleasure. Rage like what killed JonBenet is completely consistent with what I have read of other cases. Some of those cases made her's look tame. There was no dismembering.

[Wolfstar]

These perps have a tremendous amount of rage inside of them, and it comes across in the murders they commit....Rage like what killed JonBenet is completely consistent with what I have read of other cases.

You said it yourself. Underlying all of it is rage. Serial killers of the type you describe usually work up to the worst forms of their depravity. Their first killings often are not as depraved as their later killings.

I've always had a fascination with the Jack the Ripper killings. He is acknowledged as history's first serial killer, in the modern sense of that term. The wild blood-lust depravity of his last killing as compared to his first is a perfect example.

These human monsters need to do worse and worse things to get the same amount of satisfaction from the act. They don't stop killing until something or someone stops them.

Whatever else we can say about the Ramsey killing, it does seem to be a single act. That seems to argue against the perp being a serial killer. But it always has to be stipulated that, without more information, we just may never know the truth. Until we do, anyone else's theories are as valid as my own.