Classifcation of Typology For this project I will be looking at 3 different women who were listed as serial killers. The three different women I picked are: Marybeth Tinning, Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood, and finally Karla Homolka. I picked these three cases because I hardly know anything about them and would like to do my own research on them, while in the purpose learning more about them. I strongly feel that all three cases represent different types of typology, and would present on different
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The Axeman Who Loved Jazz Nighttime comforting them as they slumber, yet suppressing the very thing they fear most. The most paralyzing figure watching them as they sleep. A man looming over them and watching every move they make. A “real-life” boogeyman; the Axeman of New Orleans. While the residents were content in their homes, he would beat them insensible until their life slipped away from their own eyes. From May 1918 to
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Different Serial Killers and their M.O.’s ““Well, enjoying it is as good a reason as any.” – Dennis Nilsen, on why he killed” (Philbin, Philbin, Killer). Serial killers have been around for centuries. There are ones that have never been caught like Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac killer, but there are also ones that were caught, such as Andrei Chikatilo, Albert Fish and Ted Bundy. There are killers who killed people using a certain method that they made for themselves and people who had no such method
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Have you ever been too afraid to enter the vast ocean because of what’s lurking out there? Well, OCEARCH, a non-profit organization, are undergoing an operation to research and better understand sharks. Shark tagging has been in operation to figure out what sharks get up to, where they go, and what their habits are. OCEARCH are tagging white pointers (great whites) and tiger sharks off the West Australian and Queensland coasts. So far they have tagged 47 sharks with only one shark casualty. OCEARCH
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Many people around the world travel to SeaWorld locations to see the aquatic mammals and their shows. Little do they know of what kind of hardships and cruel treatments these animals endure. In the past, the documentary film Blackfish (2013) exposes SeaWorld and Sealand of the Pacific for their harsh methods of training and keeping orcas and other aquatic mammals. This film opens the eyes of its viewers to the cruelty that orcas are experiencing from living in these enclosures their whole lives.
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The book “Whale Done! The Power of Positive Relationships” authored by Ken Blanchard offers readers insight on how one’s interactions with people can make a dramatic change to a person’s life. Using the interactions of whales and their trainers as an example, the book offers methods and tips on how to turn negative situations into positive relationship building situations. The book offers these tips and methods through a simple story about a struggling manager. This simplistic story works well with
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Serial killers are a widely discussed topic throughout many criminal justice fields. A serial killer is defined as a person who murders three or more persons in at least three separate events, with a “cooling off period” between kills (Egger, 2002; Hickey, 2002; Ressler & Shachtman, 1992). The question of what makes someone a serial killer or in other words a psychopath is still unknown. Many would argue that humans are evil by nature and there is no outside force needed to make someone a killer. Others
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murders. He wrote a letter after the murder of a taxi cab driver, along with a piece of the driver's blood stained shirt, stating that an officer did see him but did not stop him because he did not fit the suspect's characteristics at the time (Zodiac Killer, 1996).
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question for everyone’s behavior or problems. Serial killers are both, born and created, because something in their childhood throws them off into the road of destruction, even though in their genetics they are fully capable of going into the wrong path. Environment influences their behavior, your surroundings also apart of who you are. Based on the findings of two law-abiding college professors, James Fallon and Adrian Raine, found out that serial killers are created from their environment and biologically
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The Devil In The White City The Devil in the White City is an amazing book it was written by Erik Larson. He had to do a lot of research to know what H.H Holmes did to all the girls that was in his hotel and how he pulled it off. Not long after Jack the Ripper haunted the ill-lit streets of 1888 London, H.H. Holmes (born Herman Webster Mudgett) dispatched somewhere between 27 and 200 people, mostly single young women, in the churning new metropolis of Chicago; many of the murders occurred during
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