Serial Killers - so which one's your favourite?

Fred and Rose West.

They are the daddies

 

A 'perfect storm' so to speak, Fred killed before and was highly likely to repeat that, would Rose have killed if not for her relationship with Fred? Probably not but from what I read up on she was more than just a bystander and may well have pulled many of the strings.

Or I could have just said you had to dig those two up!!

 

If you ever read Silence of The Lambs by Thomas Harris there are some fascinating insights into serial killers in the US and the FBI's profiling of them etc ... the killer in SOTL is based on a few of the well known ones, Gein, Bundy and Gacey among them iirc...

 

She was the chief manipulator in the whole thing. Had him wrapped around her fingers.

 

That's how I saw it, certainly didn't start out that way, he'd killed before he even met her but by the end I think you're right on that.

Have you heard about her childhood? Not saying it's an excuse, but jeez she was always going to be one ****ed up puppy.

 

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i watched a documentary on them not long ago.

Like you say it was 'the perfect storm' much like Mira Hindley and Ian Brady

 

You might be a sexual deviant but you weren't ****ed by your dad as a kid! Not saying it's an excuse to do what she did... but ****ing hell not a start to life I'd have wanted

 

Yeah Brady was in charge in that one, a **** of the highest order.

 

Yeah thats true...but what i dont get is how she allowed the same thing to happen to her kid.

 

Gotta be Harold Shipman! He was the most prolific, over 200 kills under his belt before they got him

 

I find the whole psychology behind it fascinating, I think what I struggle to get my head round is how these people do what I could never conceive of doing under any circumstance, how someone who is the same species is wired up so differently.

Criminal Minds was a good watch, gone down hill in the last few series but for serial killer drama there isn't much better.

 

I expect fantasising about killing people is a lot more common than people may think. So the question for me is what happens differently to the people that carry out these killings rather than the people who sit and daydream about doing it.

 

Does he get points deducted for easy targets though?

 

In terms of the ease of the kills I suppose, since most of his victims trusted him as his doctor and he would drug them, so he didnt go around black bagging people and pulling them off the streets, but that also means he is smarter than a lot of the others and sneakier.
In terms of who had the biggest balls, Fred West and Peter Sutcliffe had to be up there.

 

Just depends how detailed, if it's just a passing thought and the motivation behind it. There are a **** load of psychopaths out there and some use it 'positively' in a profession for instance it's a bonus to be emotionless whilst carrying out surgery, hang on I'm going off on a tangent.... yeah I'd say it's way more common than the public would suspect.

 

Don't know all that much about Sutcliffe, with West was it balls? Or purely that he was a bit thick and was amazingly lucky not to have been caught sooner, IIRC he had a motorcycle accident in his late teens and suffered brain damage, and before that he wasn't a candidate for Mensa, him and Rose seemed to be trying to one up each other and it became a compulsion? Maybe an addiction?

 

Well yeah he was as thick as two short planks was Fred, but he had no inhibitions....killed his eldest daughter and buried her under the patio in front of his other kids and warned them if they didnt behave they'd follow her......#extremeparenting.
He may have been semi retarded and psychotic, but he was gutsy!

 

Oh bollocks that made me laugh.... I really am a bad person! #extremeparenting

 

Ya sicko!