Show antisocial and psychopathic personality traitsĪn example of the organized serial killer is John Wayne Gacy. The United States Bureau of Justice defines a serial killer as: – ‘ … the killing of several victims over three or more separate events’ The serial killer is separated from the ‘spree killer’ by the fact that the former have periods of inactivity between killings, sometimes running into years.Ī ‘spree killer’ is defined by the Bureau of Justice as: – ‘…killings at two or more locations with no time break between murders.’ An example of a spree killer would be Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, notorious for the terrible events at Columbine in 1999.Īn organized serial killer is likely to plan his actions well and to be careful not to leave evidence at the crime scene. The serial killer is still very much with us but what takes someone from being a killer to a serial killer?Ī serial killer is defined as someone who kills more than three people over a long period of time.
Jack the Ripper terrorized London in the late 1800’s and has been called the world’s first serial killer on more than one occasion, although that is hardly the case as infamous serial killers such as Elizabeth Bathory (1560 – 1614) have been well documented.
The term was coined in the 1960’s but serial killers have been around a lot longer than that. The theory of Organized/Disorganized Typography in serial killers has had a mixed reaction over the years, mainly due to the fact that not all killers fit into a neat pigeonhole and ‘crossovers’ or ‘mixed’ killers do happen.
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This came under the field of criminal profiling made so famous today by TV shows such as Criminal Minds. The FBI was responsible for both the term ‘serial killer’ and for the development of the theory of organized/disorganized typography relating to serial killers.
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