Jack Rosewood

Instead, his (or her) primary aim is to indulge their sadistic desires, quench their bloodlust, and bask in the high of playing God. Each serial killer has unique reasons for doing what they do, many of which are unfathomable to the non-psychopathic mind.

Serial killers possess what psychologists term as “predatory aggressive personalities,”

your lifetime, you’ll walk past around 36 killers

Albert Fish, one of the most depraved serial killers of all time, claimed to have eaten over 100 children

famous artist in New York City currently has Albert Fish’s perverse confession letters in his possession

The Federal Bureau of Investigation defines serial killing as “a series of two more murders, committed as separate events, usually, but not always, by one offender acting alone.”

perpetrator who kills three or more people with a significant “cooling-off period” of more than 30 days between each murder. However, the definition has recently changed from three victims to two.

The common belief is that FBI Special Agent Robert Ressler invented the term “serial killer” during a lecture on criminal profiling in the late 1970s.

famous for his work in the field of criminal psychology and considered to be the father of modern behavioral profiling, allegedly used the term when referring to New York serial killer David Berkowitz.

In Dorothy B. Hughes’s mystery book A Lonely Place (1947), Hughes refers to the antagonist as a “series killer.”