Mass and Serial Murders

Four Classifications of Serial Murderers 18

II. Serial Killer Profiling by the FBI 32

III. A Comparison of Mass and Serial Murderers 35

This project centers on the topics of mass and serial murder. By definition, the two are separate and distinct classifications, and each of these will be discussed at some length below. And although the apparent incidence of both of these forms of murder (and their specific subsets) appears to be on the rise, neither are the phenomena restricted to the United States, nor are they limited to the twentieth century.

The research conducted in the preparation of this project has been limited, with only two exceptions, to literature published after 1990. This focus is important in limiting the discussion to some of the most contemporary thought currently available.

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"military functionaries as part of their job duties and political assassinations by terrorist groups," while also including professional assassins working for organized crime syndicates, health care workers who murder patients, persons who kill multiple spouses or lovers, and parents who murder their children. (It is also gender neutral--Keeney and Heide are very adamant that feminist writers too often ignore women as serial killers, instead preferring to treat them exclusively as victims!) Four Classifications of Serial Murderers Holmes and DeBurger laid the groundwork for the debate which endures today over the typology of serial murders. When they point out that their four typologies "categorize the major types of serial murder," this does not appear to preclude other possibilities from emerging over time. Visionary Type. Unlike most other serial murderers, this group of killers may actually be psychotic. They are exhorted to carry out their acts as the result of voices they have heard or visions they have seen. These voices or visions frequently identify a particular person or group of persons for elimination. The visions or voices may be thought to be that of God or of a demon. In the case of David Ber
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Approximate Word count = 9226
Approximate Pages = 37 (250 words per page)