The Green River killer

The Green River Killer

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What might I know about serial killers that the general public wouldn’t know. Well I really didn’t know anything myself. I had many questions and once I found what I was looking for, I was able to answer some questions about serial killers. What I wanted to know is what makes people want to kill and how do they think. I found some pretty  interesting information about the types of signs that  make up what a serial killer’s behavior  would be out in the real world. Here are the 14 characteristics of a serial killer.

 1. Over 90 percent of serial killers are male.
2. They tend to be intelligent, with IQ's in the "bright normal" range.
3. They do poorly in school, have trouble holding down jobs, and often work as unskilled laborers.
4. They tend to come from markedly unstable families.
5. As children, they are abandoned by their fathers and raised by domineering mothers.
6. Their families often have criminal, psychiatric and alcoholic histories.
7. They hate their fathers and mothers.
8. They are commonly abused as children — psychologically, physically and sexually. Often the abuse is by a family member.
9. Many serial killers spend time in institutions as children and have records of early psychiatric problems.
10. They have high rates of suicide attempts.
11. From an early age, many are intensely interested in voyeurism, fetishism, and sado-masochistic pornography.
12. More than 60 percent of serial killers wet their beds beyond the age of 12.
13. Many serial killers are fascinated with fire starting.
14. They are involved with sadistic activity or tormenting small creatures

  Now reading each of these characteristics had made me curious to see if a serial killer had some or all of these signs. So after researching a bit I found the Green River killer. Gary Ridgway was born on February 18, 1949.Ridgway had a troubling life. He was a bed wetter, he was doing poorly in school, because his IQ was low, his mother was domineering, his father wasn’t present in his life and he had an obsession with pornography. When he was 16 he had stabbed a six year old boy who lived, years later Ridgway started killing female prostitutes. He hated them and didn’t want to pay them for his service. Once he was caught he had confessed to cops and told them what he did after work. Stating "I was working second shift and go pick up a woman on the way home," says Ridgway on tape. "That way, I had the mornings free to go back and bury her."It is a chilling thought, just thinking that this man was killing for almost 20 years and some how I don’t feel afraid. I feel more interested, Then ever before. During this research I had made some comparisons between Dexter and Ridgway and I can honestly say that both men are completely opposite, Dexter has a high IQ, had a loving family, and has a somewhat social life. Ridgway has a low IQ and had a horrible family life and no social life. The only thing that Dexter and Ridgway has was that they love the thrill of killing and did have bad pasts. Even though Dexter is a fictional character, the creator of this show had to of researched information on the mind of killers to create such an amazing character, that loves killing but only for good. I still have many questions about this topic and the minds of killers. I hope you learn something from my research like I did. It helps me understand the human mind more. What do you think?