_THINK ABOUT IT_ Jul. 2012 | Page 4

A Serial killer is traditionally defined as an individual who has killed three or more people over a period of more than a month. Serial murderers are the worst mass abnormalities of human beings without a conscience. They kill for pleasure, for example rape, torture and removing organs to take to make their fantasies. They have a variety of psychological problems due to the fact that they have criminal mind and their principal objective is to feel pleasure with the pain of others.

This topic has many doubts, because more people don’t believe in criminal minds and have a lot of questions about it, for example, Is really a psychological problem? Or maybe, are people who decided to take the path of evil? Or do they belong to satanic sects? The only truth is that they live all over the world and it’s very striking the way they kill and cause suffering to others.

The average age of onset of the serial murderer is between 25 and 35 years, however, three have been cases of children with behavior similar to adult murderers, for example Jessie Pomeroy, she was 12 when she started to torture and murdered many children.

The serial murders are more proper to the U.S. and Europe; however, some of the worst cases have occurred in Colombia. In Colombia, it’s not clear to the authorities and also can’t be solved who the killer is and in Colombia the sexual violence is very common.

The mass murderers are known to be cunning and manipulative, but still, unconsciously betrayed, according to Scientifics who have studied the speech patterns of convicted murderers, describing his crimes. The researchers interviewed 52 convicted.

Usually there is or has been family instability: 68% of families moved often and 40% spent most of childhood or adolescence in areas of adoption, psychiatric centers, juvenile institutions or something like that. 47% of cases the father left home before the child were 12 years. 66% the mother was overbearing during childhood and adolescence and 45%, boys experienced coldness relationships or hatred toward his mother. 90 % of serial murderers that appear in the world are male and 86% heterosexual and about the victims 65% selected for this type are women and 89% of those killed, both men and women are white and

The Mind of Serial Killers