All around us, there are people looking for answers. Humans crave the ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ of life. Two of the biggest mysteries in our lives are very black and white - life and death. While a person should be able to spend their life developing their understanding of the concepts, some people are forced to do it unexpectedly. Death can be expected if introduced in a gradual or natural setting. However, an unfortunate amount of individuals must deal with the sudden and terrible side of death - the side where murder and homicide dwell. In the book Dead Men do Tell Tales, author William Maples discusses the deaths of countless individuals, which may lead to the question of why people kill. After much research, one may conclude that homicide is a result of extremely aggressive tendencies, a traumatizing past experience, or mental illness. Quick strides, clenched jaws, and balled up fists. Many people has seen this type of …show more content…
The majority of killers also face this circumstance. A mental illness is something that changes the way that an individual thinks, feels, behaves or how they relate to others. With this in mind, it’s simple to understand how this correlates to murder. One of the most common mental illnesses expressed by killers is schizophrenia. Schizophrenia causes hallucinations and delusions in most cases. Richard Chase, the killer of six people in California, was diagnosed with this illness. Chase was also known as ‘The Vampire of Sacramento”, created after his tendency to drink his victims blood. Another kind of mental disorder is antisocial personality disorder, or psychopathy. APD may make an individual lie, act out violently, or show no remorse. The infamous Ted Bundy, both a killer and necrophile who confessed to thirty murders, was diagnosed with psychopathy. While mental illness isn’t the main cause of killings, on the mass scale or not, it is definitely a contributing