A serial killer is a person who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive, also following with certain characteristics.
There is really no generic profile for a serial killer. It all depends on how the murders are played out. The “general” profile for a serial killer mainly if they are organized or not .Gender which is male or female. Race: White, african american, Hispanic, and or asian. Childhood experience, any history of crimes in the person's life. Then serial killers are divided by what type they are, for example Psychotic (being told to kill), missionaries which are people who kill to “clean up” the world. Then there are Hedonist, which are killers who kill for the fun of it and Hedonist are split into sub types:
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As a child he revealed antisocial behaviors and sadomasochistic sexual tendencies from an early age. When he was a teenager he was a minor burglary and sex offender. During Glatman senior year in high school, he started binding, gagging, and molesting Denver woman, while robbing them of small amounts of money. He was caught and arrested for one crime and put into jail. He was not able to graduate high school. Gatman was bailed out of jail, but then was arrested again. Glatman was admitted into a psychiatric hospital. He was then let out, but not soon after he was arrested again for the same charges as his first two. After a couple more time of arrest he turned to a new hobby, killing. He killed 3 women for reasons of sexual tendencies. He was caught in the act of his 4th kidnapping. He confessed to the other 3 murders and was found guilty of 1st degree murder, and was sentenced to death with a gas chamber. serial killer Harvey Murray Glatman nickname is glamour girl slayer or the Lonely-hearts killer. He started his search for his killings in 1957 when he started to troll around model agencies looking for women to satisfy his violent sexul urges. He would contact them offering work for magazines, take them back to apartment, tie them up, rape them, take pictures, and then kill them. During one of his abductions a state trooper drove by just in time and saw what was going on. Harvey was arrested and confessed to the murders. During the investigation officials found a toolbox that contained hundred of photographs of women in bondage situations, including the 3 women he killed. He kept these pictures for self