Carroll Edward Cole: Lust Serial Killer

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Carroll Edward Cole was another lust serial killer. While his father was drafted to serve in World War II, his mother would take him along to watch her perform sexual intercourse with random men. Once they return home she would beat him, so he would not tell his father. Once Cole was in first grade the beatings he receives from his mother came to an end because his father came home from the war. Peers from school began to make fun of him for his feminine name, this is a trigger for when he blacked out from strangling the family puppy. After the incident he became hateful for his mother and any woman that crossed his path. At age eight he had his first human killing, once him and his peer were alone at the Richmond’s yacht harbor he proceeded …show more content…

During his childhood and early adult life he endured physical and psychological abuse, also neglect.According to a psychologist, psychoneuroimmunologist, the department of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and the department of Gerontology at the University of Southern California “Childhood abuse increases adult risk for morbidity and mortality”( Carroll et al). The physical abuse he endured from his mother during his childhood made him hateful towards women and made them his main target. The psychological abuse he endured from his peers made him go crazy and kill his classmate while swimming. The neglect he endured was from his mother as well, which also plays in to him being so hateful towards women. The bad childhood he had was the main causes of him becoming a serial …show more content…

nurture. Nature always takes over nurture, until he made new discoveries about his own brain. After continuing his research, he discovers that a person's childhood could make all the difference. He looked at his brain and his son’s brain, he discovers that he has low activity in his orbital cortex which is shared among psychopaths, but he had a good childhood. He concludes with his research three ideas to determine if someone will become a serial killer, genetically how the brain was made, brain patterns and abuse during childhood. Many researchers believe that it is the brain that makes a serial killer a killer but once they further their research they see that a bad childhood plays a big