Dark City podcast: Serial Killer Psychology
Jun 10, 2015 7:58:05 GMT
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Post by armchair on Jun 10, 2015 7:58:05 GMT
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It seems Dark City is a podcast of wide ranging interests from UFO's to true crime. This 2 hour conversation with Bill Birnes about serial killer psychology was a treat. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Birnes "As a writer of popular nonfiction, he co-authored The Riverman with detective/academic Robert D. Keppel (1995), an account of serial killer Ted Bundy's involvement in the apprehension of Green River Killer Gary Ridgway")
Let me highlight some points I found enlightening:
16:04 (all times are estimate) Serial Killers always have a plan to escape. It is part of their scouting.
16:51 Serial killers are like addicts except their drug is murder.
20:38 Genetic component of serial offenders. They might have a genetic disposition which is activated/influenced by emotional trauma and other factors. Serial killers don't come from normal healthy families. There is a spectrum of serial offenders...why one becomes a serial rapist and another a serial killer might be those environmental factors and opportunity to express control.
34:00 They seek control, brutality, humiliation of victims. (Sound familiar?)
36:06 Why bedwetting as a child? The budding offender is toying with an impulse. I've never heard someone explain why there is bedwetting so this was cool.
39:00 Why they cross the line into murder: need to get a bigger high and move to the next level of control.
57:00 Ted Bundy knew everything about a victim's apartment before he attacked.
1hr Female serial offenders. Many are teachers because they can fly under the radar and satisfy their urge to control with kids.
1hr 48 Serial killer speech patterns. How one might approach a victim at a bar. His conversation will always come back to her looking for the way in. The lure.
2hr Spotting a dangerous offender: they are agitated closing in on the prey and don't calm down until they have victim under control. They stalk.
It seems Dark City is a podcast of wide ranging interests from UFO's to true crime. This 2 hour conversation with Bill Birnes about serial killer psychology was a treat. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Birnes "As a writer of popular nonfiction, he co-authored The Riverman with detective/academic Robert D. Keppel (1995), an account of serial killer Ted Bundy's involvement in the apprehension of Green River Killer Gary Ridgway")
Let me highlight some points I found enlightening:
16:04 (all times are estimate) Serial Killers always have a plan to escape. It is part of their scouting.
16:51 Serial killers are like addicts except their drug is murder.
20:38 Genetic component of serial offenders. They might have a genetic disposition which is activated/influenced by emotional trauma and other factors. Serial killers don't come from normal healthy families. There is a spectrum of serial offenders...why one becomes a serial rapist and another a serial killer might be those environmental factors and opportunity to express control.
34:00 They seek control, brutality, humiliation of victims. (Sound familiar?)
36:06 Why bedwetting as a child? The budding offender is toying with an impulse. I've never heard someone explain why there is bedwetting so this was cool.
39:00 Why they cross the line into murder: need to get a bigger high and move to the next level of control.
57:00 Ted Bundy knew everything about a victim's apartment before he attacked.
1hr Female serial offenders. Many are teachers because they can fly under the radar and satisfy their urge to control with kids.
1hr 48 Serial killer speech patterns. How one might approach a victim at a bar. His conversation will always come back to her looking for the way in. The lure.
2hr Spotting a dangerous offender: they are agitated closing in on the prey and don't calm down until they have victim under control. They stalk.
