‘The Psychology of a Murderer
What makes a murderer? Is it a psychological issues, a dark obsession, a story of their past, a compulsive disorder? Is there perhaps a more inner and deeper reason why they do these said things. Maybe the worlds most clinically insane can help shed a light on the dark parts of a murderers brain.
“Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death” (Burroughs S.). The psyche of a murder is unique and definitely interesting although the thought process is rather unusual. The motives they use are obscure and absolutely puzzling. Mentality is an important roll to focus on when dealing with a criminal. Most killers suffer with a form of a mental illness such as: personality disorder, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, lunacy, deranged, and more. A mental illness impairs parts of the mind from functioning normally. Not all killers suffer with a disorder but many do. Some are very much aware of
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His father George had died of a heart attack, his brother Henry had died in a brush fire, although some had suspected Ed had killed his brother due to the condition in which the body had been found in but there had been no charges filled against Ed. Augusta had raised her children to be apathetic and rely on the farmstead, and that was how Ed lived his life, apathetic and by himself. His mother had taught him that all women -besides her- were evil, and prostitutes. Ed’s victims were mostly, if not all were female, he had only killed two people but the bodies he had grave-robbed were all female. People think the reason why he picked out specifically female victims was because of either the relationship he shared with his mother or because of the way he was brought up, to believe that women were evil. How the future killer is brought up is an important role on how they turn out the way they do, but sometimes that’s not always the