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Vulture: Profiling Sadistic
Predators
- Number of Pages: 221
- ISBN: 1581124538
- Publisher: Universal Publishers
- Year: 2005
"I was in charge when I
killed them, but I was God when I made them scream."
Male Sadistic serial killer convicted of 5
murders
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Vulture explores the minds and crimes of
sadistic serial predators. After examining her own cases, studying
dozens of solved cases, researching the killers' lives, and
interviewing the killers, Dr. Schurman-Kauflin created new profiles
of sadistic killers. Vulture provides a comprehensive, fascinating
new look into the minds and crimes of sadists.
The book
includes Dr. Schurman-Kauflin's analysis of the BTK serial killer, a
profile which BTK renamed "Hits" and sent to police prior to his
capture.
In chilling detail, Dr. Schurman-Kauflin
takes you through sadistic crimes around the world. Gruesome and
horrifying cases are analyzed. The profiling process and the
mindsets of these killers are presented. Finally, from the mouths of
the killers come the most frightening thoughts and details.
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. The New Predator:
Women Who Kill, Profiles of Female Serial Killers
- Number of Pages: 235
- ISBN: 1-892941-58-9
- Publisher: Algora Publishing
- Year: 2000
"I never understood my
capacity for compassion until I started killing"
A female convicted of 5 murders
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A must have book for detectives and
students of multiple murder. This is a first-ever look into the
minds and crimes of female multiple murderers based on Dr.
Schurman-Kauflin’s one-on-one interviews with the killers themselves
and a three year background study. Included are profiles, crime
scene characteristics, and the fantasies and thoughts of these most
unusual killers.
- This is a first of its kind book based on face-to-face
interviews with women serial killers.
- Profiles women who kill, and their crime scenes.
- Highlights differences between male and female murders,
contrasts mass murder and serial killing.
- Describes childhood warning signs that may be predictive of
later violent behavior.
- Gives an authoritative step-by-step guide for professionals
investigating equivocal death cases
- Offers suggestions on how to interview female offenders.
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Book
Review
Editorial Review From Publishers
Weekly
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information,
Inc.
Studies of multiple murderers have until now focused mainly on
male perpetrators. Schurman-Kauflin, founder of the Violent Crimes
Institute, LLC and a profiler, tries to remedy the imbalance by
offering a disturbing look, based on personal interviews, at seven women
who have committed multiple murders. Addressing her colleagues in
the fields of forensic pathology and law enforcement, Schurman-Kauflin
establishes a sense of urgency, noting that while females represent a
small percentage of all multiple murderers in the U.S., their numbers have
increased in the second half of the 20th century, to an estimated 26 over
the past 30 years. Clinical, painstakingly detailed and heartwrenchingly
ugly, the book points out such commonalities among these women as early
parental abandonment or abuse and financial instability. Murderous women
tend to gravitate toward typically female roles or occupations like
nursing and babysitting, and also to stripping and prostitution. They are
older than their male counterparts and seem the least likely villain in
any given situation (enabling them to kill over a longer period of time),
target victims who are available and defenseless (e.g., small children and
the elderly), prefer to use "hands-off" methods of killing (poisoning,
smothering) and are meticulous about leaving the crime scene free of
material evidence. Schurman-Kauflin volunteers professionals a starting
point, based on "exploratory research," for identifying and capturing
female serial killers, because "though it may sound dismal, no amount of
therapy will stop a multiple murderer who has killed from killing again."
(Jan.)Forecast: Schurman-Kauflin's information may be of interest to the
general public and may get some media attention, but the clinical tone of
the writing clearly directs this book to her fellow forensic psychologists
and others involved in crime prevention.
Table Of
Contents
1. Murder
- What Do We Know?
- Female Serial Killers
- What Better Way to Kill?
- Profiles
- Mass Murderers
- Male vs. Female
- Trends
2. Murder Theories: How Could They Do It?
- Biological Theories
- Biological Theories and Women
- Brain Dysnfunction
- Psychology
- Psychopath
- Serial Murder and Psychopaths
- Mental Illness
- Over-controlled versus Under-controlled
- Depression
- Sociology
- Labeling Theory
- Neutralization Theory
- Foundations
3. Female Multiple Murderers: Up Close And Personal
- Theory
- Protection of Research Participants
- Research Methodology
- Research Sample
- Murder Method
4. The Process Of Maturation
- Siblings
- Instability
- Abuse
- Anger Builds and Builds
- Physicality: Appearance and Multiple Murder
5. From Fantasy To Reality
- Living in Daydreams
- Evil Minds
6. The Sadistic Female Multiple Murderer
- Pain and Fury
- Control
- Domination
- The Sadist
7. Behavior Patterns
- Behavioral Indicators
- Cruelty To Animals
- Verbal Skills
- Sleep Dysfunction
- Adolescent Behaviors
- Predation
- Stop, Thief!
- Education
8. Profiling
- Overview
- Multiple Murder Commonalities
- The FBI
- Female Killers
- Women Who Kill
- Gender Role: A Link to Murder
- Child-Killers
- The Categories
- Multiple Murder Typologies
- Current Research
- Common Characteristics
- Homicide Analysis
- Male versus Female
- Case Study: Organized Offender
- Case Study: Disorganized Offender
- Antemurder and Postmurder
- Mindset
- Schurman-Kauflin's 10 Questions
9. Tornado Effect
- Motivations
- Tornado
- The Tornado Effect
10. Interview Mulitple Murderers
11. Conclusion and Future
Profiling
- Review
- Can We Cure Them?
- Profiling
Bibliography
Quotes From Female Serial
Killers
A female convicted
of 9 murders -
"I've been dead since I was
five. I stopped feeling cause all I knew was hurt. And I got so damned
tired of hurting. I made it so I couldn't hurt anymore, and when you stop
feeling, you stop living. I was dead. I am dead. You can't kill a corpse.
I'm here, and I knew they'd take care of me. It's better in here than out
there. I don't have to do nothing in here. They feed me. They keep me
warm. You think this is worse than I had it? (Expletive), it's better in
here."......
A female convicted of
6 murders -
"I didn't think it'd be that
easy, you know that I'm saying? I mean, who'd think you could put your
hands like this (demonstrates her hands around her neck) and squeeze? I
mean, I nver thought it'd be easy. I mean, it didn't take much time for
her, the one I was charged with, it didn't take much time. People ask me
what'd you feel like when you were doing it, and all I can say is I didn't
feel nothing. She was a thing to me, you know what I mean? She was dead
before I did it. Does that sound bad? I'm not a bad person. I think it was
the way I was, my mind was working. I think it happened when I was seven,
and she (step-mother) locked me in the closet again. I didn't have nothing
else to do. What would you do? Wouldn't you think about being someplace
else, and you being with the key? I, you don't know what it was like for
me in, I'm not a bad person. You'd think about killing people too if you
were, if that happened to you. I'm not different from you. You'd think
about it too."......
A female
convicted of 2 murders -
"All I ever wanted
was to be left alone, but nobody would ever do that. There was always
somebody there either beating on me or torturing me. If they'd have just
left me alone, none of this would ever have happened. Because when I
realized that there was nothing I could do about it, those things in my
life, I decided to make a change when I got the chance. And I knew my
chance was coming. I knew at some point, the power would come to me. All I
had to do was wait it out. There was going to be somebody who was
dependent on me for help, and all I had to do was wait. Waiting is kind of
like a death. You know it's coming, and it hurts bad. But it's something
you have to go through. And after all that waiting, it's finished. I was
finished by the time I was through waiting, but I got my chance. I finaly
had control."
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