What do you think motivates serial killers?

Question

this is a project for school/ a research project. i may use your answers in the paper so if you dont want to be in an A.P english paper please let me know in your answer.

Answer 1

Power and control. A serial killer revels in the absolute power and complete control he exerts over his victim.

Answer 2

Pleasure, from the hunt, the getting away, the seeing someone suffer, the sex, the power.

Also, the lawyer has given the criminal nearly total immunity. The solution rate for murder between strangers is nearly nil. One may then have one's fun for years before feeling any threat.

Most are non-specialist criminals. So killing all the criminals, the good pals of the criminal lover lawyers, would end this catastrophic pestilence.

There are 100's of them operating under the full protection of the criminal lover lawyer at any one time in the US. Thousands of victims disappear each year. We do not even know the number of murder victims, if the murderer takes the slightest precautions to clean up after himself.

Answer 3

Sexual desire, straight, gay, pedophile or other...if not sexual, a need to be in control. That is why strangling is the number one way to kill someone. It's a control issue, Next is stabbing, and a gun is a distant third or more back because it;s impersonal (no contact).
People above are saying that it's from abuse...Ted Bundy, the most famous serial killer of all had a very happy middle-class childhood.

Answer 4

Serial killers start out as abused, mentally ill or traumatized people. at a point the stress from their inner demons causes them to go insane and they start to murder people. as times goes on the killing gets easier and easier to a point the killer feels no remorse and in some cases feels joy. there are also serial killers who have received head injures and lost the ability to feel and thus become sociopaths

Answer 5

A sense of superiority.
Watching others panic and be unable to stop you, knowing you have the power because you are better and deserve to be able to hunt lesser beings.

The urge to be caught often manifests when you become bored with watching the awkward attempts of Law Enforcement.

After you have made everyone terrified and shown you are unstoppable you begin to crave attention so your abilities, creativity, and superiority can be appreciated.

Just guessing that might be a motivation of course.

Answer 6

may be a number of issues. in basic terms point out some; psychological ailment, extremism in a non secular perception or, different morals (of their very own techniques), severe hatred for society or specific communities of people in society and, a life-time of being bullied the place now the serial killer is lashing out, and experiencing skill masturbation each time they kill somebody.

Answer 7

i think serial killers may be motivated from past experiences like abuse, sexual or physical, or hatred toward someone or something in the past, they could possibly do it because they are upset that someone is getting something they never had and dont think they deserve it. Just a theory.

Answer 8

the same thing that motivates us all to puch the next guy, hate or joy (which sometimes come hand to hand). But serial killers usually have a deficiency which makes them have no remorse or guilt. So they just do it.

Answer 9

A desire to kill.

This of course begs the question, what causes this desire? Extreme childhood trauma? Perhaps something genetic, leading to malformation of the brain?

Maybe you ought to look at past serial killers, and see if they had anything in common.

Answer 10

Get the Book, "American Psycho", the main character is a sociopath who is essentially a serial killer, but at the end,

He basically justified what he did in his mind as,

I know i am coldhearted, but i am living my american dream

They whoever they are ALL believe in what they are doing, i guarentee it