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No One Is Born a Serial Killer — The Psychology of A Murderer
History is full of examples that all tell the same tale, differently
For most of us God-fearing, law-abiding people, it is quite challenging to comprehend what really goes through the mind of the person to commit a murder, and kill someone in cold blood.
Worse still, is going out and repeating that act over and over again — almost as if it gives you a thrill of some sort or some kind of inner satisfaction.
Yet, if we bother to look deeper into the lives of most of the known serial killers, there’s often a common trend that says the same story — a disturbed childhood that impacts their psychology so deeply that it manifests in ways unimaginable to us. Research indicates that many serial killers display similar emotional development issues.
Studies of known serial killers have unveiled similarities between them as early as infancy. Infancy, childhood and relationships with one’s mother are often among the key parallels of serial killers (Vronsky 2004)
It is interesting to study some of the most known serial killers under these three primary buckets — infancy, childhood, and relationships with their mothers, and how most of them fall under one or more of these categories.
