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Phycology of a Serial Killer
The Green River killer
Gary Ridgeway
Convicted of 48 murders of women.
First murder was Wendy Lee Coffield
Parents:Mary and Thomas Ridgeway
Background
Birthday: February 18,1949
Background
Argued and had a bad relationship with his dad.
Wetting the bed
Event at the age of 16 stabbed a 6 year old kid kid
Told his therapist that he felt like he liked his mom.
Born and raised in Salt Lake
1st wife- 1970
Adult Background
1973 second wife- kid
1981 divorced second wife
Adult Background
Joined the navy-1969
Addictions to women
Mother in his life
Religion said he was a christian
Job/what people thought of him:
Boring
Kind
Third Wife- 1988
Dr. Death
Convicted of 15 murders that are confermed but possibly up to 250 murders.
Harold Shipman
He became intrested in medicine when watching his mom take morphine shots due to dying of lung cancer
Childhood
Childhood
He witnessed his mother passing at the age of 17.
Born into working class family
born January 14, 1946, Nottingham, England
Was considered an agressive athlete in his adelesent life. But showed high intelegence
Adult Background
Got a medical degree form Leeds University
Adult Background
In college Harold Shipman also known as fred got mixed up in substances in college. He did this to try to understand what his mom went through.
It was hard to tell what his first murder was because some sources say he is suspected of possibly 450 or 250 murders.
He would kill his victums by injecting them with lethel dose of Diamorphine
Met his wife Primrose and they had 4 kids
H.H. Holmes
Herman Webster Mudgett
H.H. Holmes or Herman Webster Mudgett had confessed to commiting 27 murders.
As time passed he then admitted to 130 murders but reseachers said he exceeded more then 200 murders.
Showed a lot of signs of high intelegence
Born into a wealthy family
Childhood Background
Childhood
Born May 16, 1861?, Gilmanton, New Hampshire
First known conartist/serial killer in the United states.
Suggested that he killed
Childhood playmate.
Was intrested in medicine when growing up and graduated from high school at 16 and trapped animals.
Adult background
adult background
He would attract his victums and get engaged with them then murder them. But, he made sure he had control of their savings and property.
He also had his employee's put his name on their life insurance so when he killed them he would gain control.
After killing the victums he would sell some of the bodies to medical schools.
He was arrested for insurance fruad after his house had caught fire and burned down.
He started killing people after he moved to Chicago and would steal thier property.
He built a house for himself later known as the murder castle that had trap doors and gas chambers to kill his victums by asphyxia and then kiln to cremate the bodies of his victums.
Him and his scheme partner named Ben Piteze. Ben Piteze helped each other to help fake Ben's death and they got 10,000 dollars of life insurance and they moved around to different states. Then Holmes breifly arrested in St. Louis for fraud.
He then met a guy named Marion Hedgepeth and they helped each other to set up a scheme with insurance but killed him nd 3 of his five kids and convinced the widow wife to give him some money.
In 1890's he was arrested and tried in court for Piteze's death and then hung.
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Comparing and Contrasting
Compare and Cotast
Differences
Herman was born into a wealthier family during the 1800's while Gary and Herman were born into more of a middle to lower class family.
The places they were all living at was different.
Herman was not married to anyone.
As far as I am aware Harold was the only one that did not confess to killing people or how many of them.
Similarities and Differences
Their styles of killings were differenct along with their motives.
Similarities
Similarities
Harold and Herman showed extreme intelegence and intrest in medicine.
Gary and Harold were married and had kids.
Gary and Harold attracted people or at least everyone trust them when meeting them and felt like they were not abnormal.
Even when almost being caught Gary and Herman were not afraid to continue on with what they were doing until they could not.
They all put up some sort of display of their alternative life.
Gary and Herman are both believed to have killed a kid when they were young.