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'Serial Killers: From Jack Ripper To Aileen Wuornos'

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Truth on Serial Killers ‘Serial Killers: From Jack Ripper to Aileen Wuornos’ is written by L. Andrew Cooper and Brandy Ball Blake. With Logos, the writers gives the readers facts about serial killers and actually gives examples of some serial killers which has caused a commotion in our lives. The writers of ‘Serial Killers: From Jack Ripper to Aileen Wuornos’ are L. Andrew Cooper and Brandy Ball Blake. Cooper is a novelist, film critique and cultural theorist; he had learnt English on Harvard and finished his Ph.D. on Princeton for English. He has written seven books where one of them is entitled Monsters, which is the book this class is using. The co-writer on this is Brandy Ball Blake. She graduated in Bachelor of Arts in English with magna cum laude in Emory College, and earned PHD in University of Georgia. Their collaboration on book ‘Monsters’ is …show more content…

Real serial killers are actually those who blend in the backgrounds and will not be the first choice of being a killer. There are examples like Robert Yates, family of five children have killed seventeen women. There are other stereotypes for a serial killer is that serial killers are white men or serial 1 addicted to killing other people. These stereotypes are started by fictional books, which generates thinking for people to think how a serial killer is. The writers uses logos and substance to support their points by quoting statistical statement like how one of one hundred Americans would be a victim in irrational multiple homicide. There are a lot of historical facts and examples of serial killers. For example, a murderer known as “Jack the Ripper” whom has killed five prostitutes in 1988, London is known for mutilating his victim, hence the name ‘Ripper’. “Jack the Ripper” sent messages to the media, which causes uproar, causing the name to be known until today, although the murderer couldn’t be

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