This profiling essay will be introducing a serial killer called Stephen Akinmurele (21), who has committed series of murders against the elderly. Stephen Akinmurele was a suspected serial killer, of Nigerian descent, charged with murdering five elderly people between 1995 and 1998.
The former civil servant had been charged with killing his former landlady, 75-year-old Jemima Cargill, who died in a house fire last October, and Joan Boardman, 74, and her husband Eric, 76, discovered battered to death the following month. All three died in Blackpoll, Lancashire.
In 1998 he was charged with the murder of Dorothy Harris, 68, who died in a house fire in Ballasalla on the Isle of Man in 1996. In December he faced a fifth murder charge over the death in 1995 of Marjorie Ashton, 72, who also lived in Ballasalla.
All of the victims in the case were elderly with the lead investigator in the case noting that Akinmurele had a "pathological hatred" of old people. He was dubbed "cul-de-sac killer" due to his choice of elderly victims living in quiet suburban streets. Akinmurele had a history of mental illness and had committed crimes against the elderly from the age of 11. He was drawn to situations in which he would encounter the elderly with
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In the note found in his pocket after his death Akinmurele said: "I know it's not right always thinking like this but it's always on my mind." So its kind of addiction as he cant get rid of the ideas and thoughts of murder, also it was mentioned that he was a civil servant which means that he encountered a lot of killing around him that is making him very distressed and very angry and wanting to kill and get that kick and excitement of killing. The fact of why he might be targeting older people because he might have thought that they lived their life and experienced life so its better targeting them instead of younger