Serial Killers True Crime: Cold Blooded Terrifying Serial Killers From Around The World
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We live in a society obsessed with monsters. You don't believe me? Think of all the television shows and movies in the past two years or so which have featured vampires, werewolves, and assorted creatures of the night. I'm betting you can come up with at least twenty titles. We like being scared. We like screaming in the middle of a crowded movie theatre and then awkwardly pretending it was someone else. We like that pulse pounding feeling evoked by Silent Hill and The Evil Dead because we can go home safe in the belief that it wasn't real.
Monsters are real, and human beings can be the scariest of them all. It's an unfortunate fact that real life is sometimes even more twisted than the worst horror writer can imagine. Nowhere is this seen more than when discussing serial killers. Most people can understand, if not condone, a crime of passion. And who doesn't comprehend how strong the desire for vengeance can be? But what of those who kill, time and time again, for reasons that the common man, or woman, could not hope to understand?
Before going any further, it is necessary to understand how a serial killer gets that designation and for this we must turn to the good old Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). Those familiar with the Criminal Minds series will already know that the FBI has spent a great deal of time and resources in tracking, capturing, and ultimately understanding serial killers. According to them, a serial killer can be classified as such if he (used loosely since there are female serial killers):
• Has killed a minimum of three or four individuals,
• Has what is termed a 'cooling off' period between kills,
• Generally kills for reasons other than profit,
• Typically chooses strangers as victims, although they may have some symbolic value, such as bearing similar features to the real but somehow unattainable target,
• Exhibits a sadistic need to overpower/dominate victims, often by means of torture.
These points help to distinguish a serial killer from spree killers or even mass murderers, since these two groups tend to lack a cooling off period. However, some experts have suggested the inclusion of a hybrid 'spree-serial killer' category. This is because some serial killers have experienced prolonged periods of sequential murder without the expected 'rest' in between.
Damien Rollins
Damien Rollins has worked security for a number of hotels throughout the world and somehow managed to land himself a job in the Bahamas (lucky bastard). He is now, and has always been, an avid sun worshipper. Much to the embarrassment of his family, he thinks nothing of striping down to his skivvies and parading his fifty year old body on a beach full of twenty-something's. Not many things have been known to ruffle Damianb s feathers in the past, except when people started talking about the Bermuda Triangle. Damien has been out to sea in the Bermuda Triangle, quite a few times actually. He loves to fish and claims thereb s nothing quite as relaxing as kicking back in the middle of the ocean with nothing to do but wait for the next bite. He and his trio of close friends even thought about entering a tournament in Bermuda at one time, but decided against it since none of them are very good. Damien says that the strangest things heb s ever encountered in the Bermuda Triangle are the tourists, especially the newcomers who seem to have every bit of lore at their fingertips, despite never having visited before. Thatb s why he started looking into the stories in the first place. He got tired of hearing them and decided to do something about it. He reasoned that the best way to shut people up was to show them how wrong they were. Itb s never worked before but hey, thereb s always a first time. But something happened that Damien hadnb t been expecting. He anticipated laughter, some of it raucous, but the stories started drawing him in. The more he read, the more he began to think that there might be something to a few of them after all. Damien still doesnb t believe in alien abductions and what he terms b other far out BSb , but heb s willing to admit that some of the cases are pretty strange. Heb s happy to let others ferret out the mystery, but he has been keeping an extra eye on his electronic equipment when he goes out fishing lately. And heb s a lot more tolerant of newbies and their stories, even providing additional details on occasion. Heb s finally decided to share some of his burgeoning expertise with the rest of us, if only to get away from the constant urgings of his eldest son.
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