serial killers: the real life hannibal lecters part 1 of 6

This documentary primarily covers the psychological profiles and exploits of three particular serial killers (Albert Fish, Andrei Chikatilo, and Jeffrey Dahmer), and features various psychologists, authors, pioneering FBI profiler Robert Ressler, and the prosecuting and defense attorneys of the Jeffrey Dahmer trial discussing their thoughts on the events. Also given a look are the factors, conditions, and motivations that might lead someone to become a serial killer. And, as suggested by the show's title, the most infamous fictional serial killer Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter is discussed, compared and contrasted to his real-life counterparts.

Over 90% of serial killers are white males.

Usually from low to middle class backgrounds.

These men are usually intelligent.

But as students have difficulty focusing.

Most experience a traumatic childhood.

Often having being abused psychologically, physcially, or sexually.

Typically, they may be raised in unstable families

often with criminal psychiatric, alcholic histories.

Raised in such families, these children tend to spend much time on their own.

And as a result many praciticed animal cruelty at a young age.

Sometimes where, you know, you might not have extreme forms of physical abuse

there is always some extreme emotional or psychological

abuse that these young child are subjected to, which warps

them out of shape.

I mean one way or another they have come

to associate the infliction of pain with pleasure.

For example, John Wayne Gacy had an alcholic father who often beat him.

John senior would frequently insult the child,

practically eliminating his sef confidence which lead to later difficulties that

John junior would have with his masculinity.

As an adult, John began to rape and kill, eventually burying 29

bodies in a crawl space under his house.

As Gacy was quite popular in his comminity,

his neighbors couldn't believe that he was capable of such atrocities.

Most people who suffer as children grow out of it

and become upstanding, decent human beings.

But serial killers who have suffered as children, repeat

the same mistakes over the course of their lives.

They can't make the transitions into adulthood.

They have trouble making the transition in middle age.

At the very time in their lives when they feel that they should

be reaching the pinacle of success.

They find that they are sliding down hill fast.

They want to feel important,they want to feel special.

They crave the sense of power, dominance and control

but they simply can't achieve it in any respectable way.

So they kill and they tourture, and they sodomize and dismember.

That makes them feel good about themselves.

Ted Bundy was born into poverty and never knew his father

he had good grades in school but an unmanageable temper.

At the age of 16 he bacame a voyeur, obsessd with masturbating

who would have known that Bundy would become a serial murderer

and yet he killed many women.

Many Americans, when they think of a serial killer

will think of a glassy eyed lunitic, a monster.

Someone who acts that way,someone who looks that way.

But yet the typical serial killer is extraordinarily ordinary.

He is a white middle aged man

who has an insatiable appetite for power, control, and dominance.

He kills not for money or revenge.

But because it makes him feel good,

because he enjoys it, beacuse he has fun with it, he likes

the trill, the excitement, the exhilleration that the gets from

squeazing the last gasp of breath from his dying victim's body.

He enjoys the suffering on the part of the victim.

He tries to make it slow and painful.

It makes him feel superior to the extent that he makes

his victim inferior.

Gacy maintained a facad of respectability.

He maintained a business, a family, married with several children.

That facad was sufficient to cover his tracks

for many many years.

He enjoyed dressing up in a clown suits and clowning.

He said that clowns could get away with murder.

Then his wife left him and

his business started failing and at that point,

Gacy was caught, arrested and convicted.

And after three appeals in his case, Gacy was executed.

With 5% of the world's population, the United States produces

more serial killers than the rest of the world, accounting for 76%

of the national toll.

Europe produces the second most serial killers with 17%.

England leads European countries 28%,

followed by Germany at 27%.

California has the highest number

of serial homicide cases in the United States while New York,

Texas and Illinois follow closely behind.

Maine has the lowest number of serial homicide cases in the United States

and statistics reveal that 65% of serial killer vicitims are women.

A lady killer with a blood lost, and a temper out of control

in his 42 years, Bundy killed aproximately 36 young women.

No one really knows how many he killed.

Although, once a police officer asked Bundy, in shock,

how one person could kill 36 women, and

Bundy shook his head and said "Add one digit to that and you'll have it."

There are at most about 200 victims of serial killers per year.

That number although very large hails by comparison

with the almost 18,000 single vicitm murders in the United States

on a yearly basis.

The problem in the country is not serial murder.

It's domestic violence, it's workplace homicide

it's two guys going into a bar, one takes out a gun and shoots the other.

The problem on the other hand is that serial murders amass

a large body count.

We are talking about a small number of guys who do a lot of damage.

They may kill 5 or 10 or even 20 or more.

Some of them have killed hundreds.

That is enough to terrify most people in the country.

A cannible is person who eats human flesh.

There is much discussion as to whether canniblism is an inherent characteristic

of all human beings, our animal impulses.

Or whether canniblism stems only from the minds of mad beast

such as some of the most prolific serial killers.

Canniblism is the ultimate form of agression.

There are tribes around the world who

have incorperated canniblism into their warfare

so they achieve an ultimate victory.

Not only by killing their enemybut also by devouring their remains.

Serial killers like Andre Chicitillo,

have also incorperated sadism into their warfare.

They have in the most sadistic possible way, cannibalize their victims by

eating their hearts, or their eyes or their genitalia.

In an effort to achieve ultimate pain and suffering on the part

of the vicitm.

It's this sadistic impulse that feeds the frail and fragile

ego of a serial killer who desires so much, so desperately to

achieve a sense of power over other human beings and canniblism

is the means whereby that happens.

Anthropological evidence seems to suggest that canniblism is some kind activity,

that our pre-humaned ancesstors indulged in with a certain

amount of regularity.

So i think that there is probably some sort of innate impulse

towards that kind of activity.

One of the things that we see with

serial killers, I believe is that they kind of act out very archaic

primitive impulses that clearly still exist on some very very deep level.

Canniblisms that you'll hear are from these mentally ill, psychotic types

that they are consuming their victim to make their victim

part of them so that they can keep them and have them always.

Any serial killer that resorts to canniblism is doing so as a last resort,

out of desperation.

Certaily whether if it's for sadism or affection,

any serial killer who canniblizes his vicitims has broken one of the most provasive

and profound taboos in all of society.

Psychologically, this means that the killer

achieved just the opposite that he had hoped.

He may get a temporary rush,

he may feel temporarily high, but in terms of his ego, in terms of

self image he has got...