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Serial killers, you'd be hard-pressed to spot them in a crowd.
They look just like everyone else. In fact, most of them are soft-spoken and polite. Their monstrous nature comes through only when you delve deeper into their personalities, actions and habits. Reading the gruesome tales of serial killers sends a chill up the spine.
Most of them seem to have had a dysfunctional family setting and were abused as children, emotionally, sexually or verbally. It's as if this activates some psychological trigger in their minds, increasing the feelings of inadequacy or worthlessness, and causing them to seek out their own heinous form of release.
There have been hundreds of serial killers in history, and there are a few that tend to stay in the minds of citizens, becoming “famous.”
Here is a short bio of one of the most famous serial killers that the world has ever known:
Jack the Ripper is the best known pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished districts in and around Whitechapel, London, in 1888.
The name originated in a letter by someone claiming to be the murderer that was disseminated in the media. The letter is widely considered to be a hoax, and may have been written by a journalist in a deliberate attempt to heighten interest in the story. Other pseudonyms used for the killer were “The Whitechapel Murderer” and “Leather Apron”.
Attacks ascribed to the Ripper typically involve women prostitutes whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations. The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to proposals that their killer possessed anatomical or surgical knowledge.
Rumours that the murders were connected intensified in September and October 1888, and media outlets and Scotland Yard received a series of extremely disturbing letters from a writer or writers purporting to be the murderer. One letter, received by George Lusk of the White chapel Vigilance Committee, included half of a preserved human kidney, supposedly from one of the victims.
Mainly because of the extraordinarily brutal character of the murders, and because of media treatment of the events, the public came increasingly to believe in a single serial killer, Jack the Ripper. Extensive newspaper coverage bestowed widespread and enduring international notoriety on the Ripper.
An investigation into a series of brutal killings in White chapel up to 1891 was unable to connect all the killings conclusively to the murders of 1888, but the legend of Jack the Ripper solidified.
As the murders were never solved, the legends surrounding them became a combination of genuine historical research, folklore, and pseudo history.The term “ripperology” was coined to describe the study and analysis of the Ripper cases. There are over one hundred theories about the Ripper's identity, and the murders have inspired multiple works of fiction.