Preliminary Links

Click here to read this article by Madhavi Ghare. She presents the definition of a serial killer and talks a little about their characteristics. There is a list of some of the most notorious serial killers in history. She lists quite a few such as the following: Jack the Ripper, Ed Gein, The Zodiac Killer, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, David Berkowitz, Mary Ann Cotton, Marybeth Tinning, Nannie Doss, Belle Gunness, Dorothea Puente, and Aileen Wuornos.

Click here to read this article by Derek Wood. It is explaining Antisocial Personality Disorder and the statistics of who has it. He says that only six percent of men and a rare one percent of women acquire ASP. You can be legally diagnosed with it at the minimum age of 18 years old. He is breaking down into detail the characteristics they possess and how they appear.

Click here to read this article by Kristyn Gansen. Instead of describing the characteristics of a serial killer or what it is that makes them kill, Kristyn Gansen focuses on a certain woman in this article, Nannie Doss. She was a woman who was obsessed with finding a husband, then killing him. She 11 of her own family members.

Click here to read this article by Charles Montaldo. This article is about Ed Gein. He is a crazy man whose whole family died when he was just a child. Once he lived alone on a huge farm he became obsessed with anatomy, female anatomy to be exact. He got interested in human experiments at Nazi camps and wanted to try it out himself, so he started digging up bodies from graves and stealing them. Overtime he became so obsessed he wanted to become a woman himself so he constructed an entire female body jumpsuit from the dead bodies for himself. He eventually realized he needed fresher bodies, so he began the hunt himself for the perfect female body.