Do serial killers have to be sociopaths

She was executed in Florida on October 9, David Berkowitz Son of Sam began randomly shooting people with a. As a serial killer psychopath, he did have a type… women with long-brunette hair Ted Bundy also had this type.

There are thoughts that perhaps Berkowitz suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. He has become a born-again Christian and mentors others in Prison. In , he was again denied parole. He has been in prison since June 12, Edmund Kemper is one of my favorite serial killer psychopaths.

His intelligence absolutely fascinates me. He is known to have an IQ over The only reason he was caught is that he turned himself in. Unfortunately, Ed is also one of the worst serial killers known to man.

He is a serial killer, rapist, and necrophile who murdered ten people, including his mother and grandparents. Kemper is also known for his large size, at 6 feet 9 inches, weighing pounds. He is considered a giant. He used to frequent the same bars as the police, escaping their detection every time by talking about this crimes in the abstract.

He is still in prison as of Ed murdered his grandparents when he was At that time, he was diagnosed in prison as a paranoid schizophrenic and considered criminally insane. He was released at the age of 21 after convincing psychiatrists he was rehabilitated and non-threatening. Kemper also had a type… young female hitchhikers.

He would lure them in his vehicle and drive them to secluded areas, then after murdering them, take their corpses back to his home to be decapitated, dismembered, and violated.

In the end, he murdered his mother and one of her friends, then turned himself in to the authorities. At his trial in , Ed was found sane and guilty. Kemper then requested the death penalty for his crime, which was granted. However, California suspended the death penalty. Therefore, he received eight concurrent life sentences.

Kemper says he is happy in prison serving eight concurrent life sentences and waives his rights to parole hearings. Psychopaths generally drink their coffee black. Psychopaths and sociopaths share a number of characteristics, including a lack of remorse or empathy for others, a lack of guilt or ability to take responsibility for their actions, a disregard for laws or social conventions, and an inclination to violence.

A core feature of both is a deceitful and manipulative nature. But how can we tell them apart? Sociopaths are normally less emotionally stable and highly impulsive — their behaviour tends to be more erratic than psychopaths. When committing crimes — either violent or non-violent — sociopaths will act more on compulsion. And they will lack patience, giving in much more easily to impulsiveness and lacking detailed planning.

Psychopaths, on the other hand, will plan their crimes down to the smallest detail, taking calculated risks to avoid detection. The smart ones will leave few clues that may lead to being caught. Both act on a continuum of behaviours, and many psychologists still debate whether the two should be differentiated at all. So what are they motivated by? A sociopath wants control over others, and they will do whatever it takes to get it.

Often, they just turn on the charm. A lot of sociopaths get away with fraud and other schemes for a long time due to their charismatic personalities. People will let a lot of behavior slide because a person is charming, convincing, or appears to be the smartest person in the room.

Charismatic personalities get many sociopaths what they want. Sociopaths are easy to agitate. These tendencies often get sociopaths far in life. But remember, not all sociopaths end up infamous. Not all of them have millions of dollars or end up on the cover of a magazine.

One in 25 people are sociopaths. Each of the following people are or will be portrayed in a film or documentary that you can find on Netflix, HBO, or Hulu. They are often charming, wild, and convincing.

They give viewers a lot to talk about. Would you have bought tickets to the Fyre Festival? Did they do the things they do because they are truly evil - or just got in over their heads? Do you think they are a sociopath? Note: while some of the people on this list have been arrested for murder or the killing of animals, the second half of this list contains sociopaths who aren't killers. The six-part documentary gets more shocking with each episode.

Joe allegedly used drugs to manipulate his multiple husbands. He conned his own parents, asking them to sign documents that would put assets and money in their name so Joe could avoid legal troubles.

He attempted to run for governor. He wanted to be a reality TV star and a celebrity. Although he has expressed some remorse for his actions, he is attempting to receive a pardon from the president. The lives of Dee Dee and Gypsy Blanchard have been nothing short of shocking from beginning to end. Gypsy was confined to a wheelchair, for example, even though she could walk.

Gypsy met Nicolas Godejohn on an online dating site and later asked him to kill her mother. He did, and the pair were both sentenced to prison. Experts say that although Gypsy received a lesser sentence than Godejohn, her motives continue to be questioned.

What does this story say about nature vs. About the effects of abuse, neglect, and other trauma on sociopathic tendencies? Stories like this are certainly one that lead to more questions than answers. A lot of people are scared of clowns, but very few people were scared of John Wayne Gacy when he was just a neighborhood clown. Gacy was charming and respected throughout the Chicago area. John Wayne Gacy is known nowadays as one of the most notorious serial killers in modern history!

Ironically I am a anti social person that has been constantly bullied in my school years. I also have a negative view of men being a child with an absent father who had psychological abuse from that. I also lack remorse and guilt for certain situations. Before I suffered psychological trauma as a child I was actually mentally balanced I am also afraid of commitment and can't keep romantic relationships despite having an above average IQ.

One of the reasons I was bullied when young my IQ. Upbringing by Stern religious and overbearing and not particularly intelligent mother who followed the word of scripture literally without understanding it fully and realizing it is mostly allegory and other meaningless crap that was added for political purposes, with a father figure who is unavailable or absent because of the unintelligent zealot woman.

One trait that was not mentioned. I have been curious about this, being that it is all too common to hear about yet another case involving murder, on a regular basis.

It's so commonplace these days and is also depicted in TV dramas regularly as "entertainment", as with video games, that there seems to be a nonchalance about it. It's sad to think that this occurs at all, let alone as commonly as it does. I have wondered how far too many have increasingly become this way and how it could be lessened or prevented. Part of the issue begins with far too many pregnancies and births, due to sexual involvement prior to any knowledge of who another is. Many are born into difficult situations, who never had a chance to know of a proper upbringing, having begun with sex causing forced relationships that should not have been.

So, then an unlikely parent or parents, attempt to raise others, despite their own issues. If the parent is damaged themselves, or unaware of needed change within themselves, it is passed on.

Heck, "normal", loving households can be trying, without the addition of mental illness, drug or alcohol addiction, verbal or physical abusiveness and poverty. I think there is not enough done early on, to prevent children from being the targets from becoming dysfunctional individuals, if others recognize the abuse and stepping in. There should be more done to instruct and inform young people in the way of sex education, birth control and the psychological impulses for involvement, which has been failing, and keeping females from becoming involved with abusers.

There is not enough focus on developing properly and forming relationships for the right reasons. Though, I realize this opens more cans of worms, because many believe they are "okay the way they are", not facing problems or having belief systems that justify the way they live, etc. I had seen a program in the early 70's about mass murderers and it said that they came from all social backgrounds, with all degrees of intelligence and all kinds of exterior forces drugs, bad family, abuse etc.

I'm wondering is there any truth to this or was it a bunch of crap put on by uninformed journalists? One symptom, not a trait, is the use of psycho-active drugs. Rather than looking at the personalities, I wonder that we should be looking at behavior. The obsession with past spree killings. Evidence of planning for the event. Evidence of misogynistic rants on-line. These events seldom occur on the spur of the moment; the perpetrator spends months and even years preparing.

This is why they are so difficult to prevent. Our best hope is educating the public on this profile. We do pretty well intercepting most of our aspiring spree killers.

We could do better. I have noticed in my research that serial killers have the same traits that is in this list. One that is not listed is most serial killers have brown eyes then any other eye color I was wondering from what victims lived from the Zodiac killer saw his eyes and what color were they?

From the movie he was wearing a mask but his eyes have to have been seen and someone came forward as the eyes are the only thing they saw or race from his face.

It shows from the photos on the internet that he wore glasses, one photo shows kinda a pointed jaw, white guy with a certain hair line, then when he was younger it shows a fuller face, am I right? He could be anywhere amongst us, or he could be dead and buried under another name.

It's been 40 years maybe he does not want to come forward and get clean and just live out his life, but doing what? You'd think he'd leave a trace and maybe not? Some serial killers have high IQs, but many others do not.

There are even some like Carl Eugene Watts, and Joachim Kroll who have a very low intelligence level. I've actually read another source which said that the median IQ for most serial killers is This is average. This source was considering the killers IQ, and the method in which they murdered their victims.

The only group of killers which had a high intelligence level as a group was the bombers which scored So although the idea of the brilliant serial killer is popular in our society, the reality is in general serial killers tend to be of average intelligence.

I wonder if they have other hobbies for their adrenaline rush, when they aren't killing Most were abused as children, because that stuff kills empathy, which is also why they can torture animals, the fatherless thing is also telling, the number of rapist who grew up without fathers is disproportionate to the general population, in fact the number of people in jail that grew up without fathers is disproportionate to the percentage in the general population.

Teenage girls are dramatically more likely to get pregnant as teenagers and to end up single parents themselves if their father is not present growing up, and boys are more likely to end up in jail, and more likely to end up dead beat dads when separation occurs, like it or not lady's most dead beat dads were raised by single women. Motherliness messes people up too but in different ways, Obviously this single parent society thing is going swimmingly so lets just keep it the hell up.

It seems that a huge number of murderers show white below their eyes.