like Ted Bundy, Peter Tobin, Jeffrey Dahmer, Peter Sutfliffe, and Clifford Olson and others, are all people who deserved the death sentences that they received. These men not only killed many people, but many of them tortured and mutilated their victims, causing unfathomable levels of suffering for them and their families. Through their actions, serial killers tell the world that they are not interested in being peaceful members of… Continue Reading...
likelihood in such highly-populated regions. Consider, for instance, Ted Bundy who was especially comfortable with acting in crowded shopping malls (Hickey, 2013).
Social Class Theory
Leyton’s 2011 work titled “Hunting Humans: The Rise of the Modern Multiple Murderer” delves into serial killers’ status aspirations. In his opinion, serial killers may generally be found somewhere on the fringes of the lower-middle or upper-working classes of society. They experience exclusion from the class they aim for and, on an extended revenge drive, kill strangers whose appearance, place of residence, or behavior are representative of the class he has been excluded… Continue Reading...