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Why Serial Killers Do What They Do

        the visionary, who kills             or firefighters to gain trust  frey Dahmer, n.d.). After

 B      because a voice is telling           and pretend to be disabled  his victims were deceased,
 R      them to do so or a vision            to get assistance (Crime             he would continue inter-

 O      tells them the same and              Library: Ted Bundy, n.d.).  course with their corpses
 W      a missionary, who kills              Once at his vehicle, he              and take picture as he

 A      because they think it is             would knock them un-                 dismembered them (Crime
 R      meant for them to purge              conscious, put them in               Library: Jeffrey Dahmer,
 D      a certain group of people            handcuffs and put them               n.d.). Here is where one
        (Freeman, 2007).                     in his vehicle (Crime Li-            major difference would

 U                                           brary: Ted Bundy, n.d.).             come in between Ted Bun-

 N      Taking both of these into            He would rape then mur-              dy and Jeffrey Dahmer.
 I      consideration, let’s take            der his victims, using               After Dahmer disjoined
 V      a closer look at the infa-           strangulation or striking            his victims, he saved some

 E      mous Theodore Robert                 them with a heavy object             of their parts for consump-
 R      Bundy. It could be said              repeatedly as his preferred  tion (Crime Library: Jef-

 S      that he was a missionary             method. As if that was               frey Dahmer, n.d.).
 I      because if you look at all           not enough, he elongated             Taking into consideration
 T      of his victims, they are all  these drastic scenes by                     the difference between the

 Y      young and attractive wom- returning to where the                          act-focused and the pro-
        en (Crime Library: Ted               corpse was dumped and                cessed-focus serial killer,

 2      Bundy, n.d.). That could             sometimes took the corpse  John Wayne Gacy could
 0      be viewed as him attempt- home for additional sexual  be put in the category of
 2      ing to do away with a cer-           pleasure (Crime Library:             the processes-focused.

 0      tain group as mentioned              Ted Bundy, n.d.).                    This could be the case be-
        earlier. One could also                                                   cause his preferred meth-
        infer he was processed               The method that Bundy                od to kill his victims was

        focus when it came to his            uses could be compared to  strangulation or asphyxia-
        murders. In most cases,              those of Jeffrey Dahmer.             tion, which is an intended
        there would be multiple              They both appeared to                act (10 Most Deranged

        steps in                             take the slow killing route.  Serial Killers of All Time,
        murdering his victims.               Dahmer would pick up                 n.d.). Strangling someone

                                             unsuspecting males from              is not like shooting some-
        According to crime mu-               bars or local prostitutes,           one. One shot and they are
        seum, Bundy lured his                drug them, raped them                gone but strangling takes

        victims over his vehicle             then strangled them to               a lot. The victim struggles
        by impersonating officers            death (Crime Library: Jef- with the killer, maybe


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