Gilles De Rais An Experience Of Severe Trauma

The experience of severe trauma is usually found in the history of someone who becomes fitting for the profile of a serial killer. In the case of Gilles De Rais, his preferred victims were children ages seven to eighteen years old, especially boys. He would completely mutilate them, behead them, and dismember their bodies. (6) When Gilles was just ten years old both of his parents died, leaving him to live with his grandfather. His father died in a hunting accident, and it is believed that the ten-year-old boy may have been witness to his father's death. Just a few months later, his mother also died, the cause of her death is unknown. (7) It is recorded that his grandfather was a political schemer and focused on finding a marriage for his grandson

Albert fish was born into a family with a heavy history of mental illness. His brother was in and out of mental hospitals, his uncle was diagnosed with mania and his mother suffered from hallucinations. (12) His father was 70 years old at Alberts birth and only lived five years afterwards, dying of a heart attack. His mother could not take care of his family on her own so she decided to give Albert up to an orphanage, in this orphanage he would experience sadistic abuse and it would last for years. The children of this orphanage were regularly abused and humiliated, the caretakers would shame the children in front of each other by making them stand naked to whip or beat them in front of one another, the children would also be forced to hurt each other. (13) Fish would admit that in the orphanage the abuse would become pleasurable for him, and he started to look forward to the beatings and grew a desire to inflict pain on himself and others. By the time his mother picked him up from the orphanage, just before his 9th birthday, it would be too late for fish, he had experienced so much trauma there was no turning back for him. Fish would continue the abuse on himself, using a nail studded paddle and inserting sharp objects into his body and when he was 12 years old he met a boy who showed him the act of drinking urine and eating feces for pleasure. At 20 years old he moved to New York

Betty McCrickett was Mary Bells mother, and their relationship was not a typical loving mother daughter bond. Betty provided for her and Mary bell by working as a prostitute and would often leave Mary alone. It is reported that her mother had attempted to kill Mary, feeding her pills several times and Mary had confided that her mother had also forced her to engage in sex acts with men at the very young age of 4.(15) Her mother was not loving towards her and would often mentally and physically abuse the child. On top of all the abuse and torture she was put through by her own mother, Mary Bell also witnessed her childhood friend get hit by a bus in the street and die. Mary Bell was found to have murdered two young boys when she was just 10/11 years old and would spend 12 years in prison for these crimes. Her first victim was a 4-year-old boy names Martin Brown, who she strangled to death and her second victim was 3-year-old, Brian Howe. (16) She murdered him in the same way, strangulation, except she also attempted to mutilate his body with scissors, authorities finding small cuts on the boy's body. She had an accomplice with her, her friend Norma Joyce Bell. She is still considered a serial killer, even though she only has two victims on her list, because of her infatuation with the murders, she went back to check in with the