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Aug. 18, 2005 Dennis Rader was a killing machine. He has no remorse, no regrets. His biggest regret is having been captured for his heinous crimes. When questioned about his merciless murders, he responded like a man explaining how he’s going to add a room onto his house. The pain and suffering of his victims were an inconvenience for him. The self-described, “Monster,” spoke about his victims as though they were projects or jobs that needed to be done. How is such a monster created? Michael Ross, a confessed serial killer, killed eight young girls. He gives an accounting of his childhood. His mother, Pat, married young and gave birth to four children of which Michael was one. Her marriage was not a good one. She abused her children including Michael. She ran off to another state to be with another man. Michael had an uncle that was suspected of sexually abusing him. The uncle eventually committed suicide. After his uncle’s death, Michael began showing outward signs of deviancy or antisocial behavior. He began to strangle chickens on the farm on which he and his siblings lived with their father. Michael was a bright young man, who attended Cornell University and fell in love with a classmate. After his love became pregnant an had an abortion, the relationship faltered and faded. He soon began having fantasies about young girls (his oldest victim was twenty-five years old). His fantasies all too soon became realities. Hence, the beginning of a horrifying pattern of murder. I don’t know enough about Rader to make any comparisons to Ross or any other serial killer. My guess is that somewhere in his family history there had to be a loose connection. He had either been abused or watched someone close to him giving or receiving abuse. After the second or third movie has been out, we will know more about this robot-like killer and his childhood.
The U.S. has some nefarious statistics in regards to serial killers. There are at least twenty to fifty serial killers running loose on any given day in this country, more than any country in the world. In fact, the U.S. has 76% percent of the world’s serial killers. Why? What is different about the U.S. than other countries in this world? You be the judge.
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