Wondering... (serial killers and mass murderers related)
I have been roaming around MySpace's profiles and was pretty surprised (yet not shocked) to find serial killers' fan pages and even some that actually belong to/were created by alive serial killers, some currently on death row.
I wonder what makes people so attracted to serial killers (even though there are also women serial killers, no doubt men hold the winning title for this... accomplishments, to be polite) and mass murderers, some still locked on death rows waiting for their execution, others already dead.
Is it because people wonder how it would be like to watch someone's life fade away by their own hands, all the gruesome details regarding someone's death, dealing with death without actually acting it out by killing another?
Is it some sort of cathartic strategy to deal with their death-related fears? Perhaps people are just drawn towards danger, believing this would be a safer way to deal with it, as some of these serial killers and mass murderers are already long dead or locked away on death rows, in high security prison facilities?
Could it be remnants of public executions during the middle ages, where people would be decapitated, hanged, or tied to 4 horses that would tore the sentenced to death by running towards opposite directions? Executions that are still happening in several countries around the world, sometimes with an electric chair, sometimes by lethal injection, by a firing squad, among various other means.
Also, there are theories that say that serial killers and mass murderers have neurological differences while in comparison to people who do not fit such profiles.
Also, serial killers and mass murderers fit into several different types, for example, the psychopathic killers (those who take pleasure from killing people), or killers who believe they have a mission (for example, that their mission is to kill prostitutes; or to engage in a holy war, or just to save the world from what they believe to be dangerous, from whom they believe to be enemies), among others.
I wonder about their groopies, though. Are there biological/neurological differences present? What kind of personality traits do they have?
By all means, shoot away (pun intended; I am not speaking in the literal sense, mind you) your opinions. The criminal psychologist in me is curious to know, so feel free to share your thoughts with me.
I'm glad curiosity didn't kill the cat; ignorance did. Curiosity was just framed.
I wonder what makes people so attracted to serial killers (even though there are also women serial killers, no doubt men hold the winning title for this... accomplishments, to be polite) and mass murderers, some still locked on death rows waiting for their execution, others already dead.
Is it because people wonder how it would be like to watch someone's life fade away by their own hands, all the gruesome details regarding someone's death, dealing with death without actually acting it out by killing another?
Is it some sort of cathartic strategy to deal with their death-related fears? Perhaps people are just drawn towards danger, believing this would be a safer way to deal with it, as some of these serial killers and mass murderers are already long dead or locked away on death rows, in high security prison facilities?
Could it be remnants of public executions during the middle ages, where people would be decapitated, hanged, or tied to 4 horses that would tore the sentenced to death by running towards opposite directions? Executions that are still happening in several countries around the world, sometimes with an electric chair, sometimes by lethal injection, by a firing squad, among various other means.
Also, there are theories that say that serial killers and mass murderers have neurological differences while in comparison to people who do not fit such profiles.
Also, serial killers and mass murderers fit into several different types, for example, the psychopathic killers (those who take pleasure from killing people), or killers who believe they have a mission (for example, that their mission is to kill prostitutes; or to engage in a holy war, or just to save the world from what they believe to be dangerous, from whom they believe to be enemies), among others.
I wonder about their groopies, though. Are there biological/neurological differences present? What kind of personality traits do they have?
By all means, shoot away (pun intended; I am not speaking in the literal sense, mind you) your opinions. The criminal psychologist in me is curious to know, so feel free to share your thoughts with me.
I'm glad curiosity didn't kill the cat; ignorance did. Curiosity was just framed.