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STUDENT REPLY #1Taylor Carrion

Danny Benson was a 15-year-old 4-foot-9 male attending George Warshaw High School he was pretty much to himself and shy and quiet. He spent most of his time in the library with his head in books. He did not really have many friends except for one kid named Tony Danielson. Due to him being a loner and to some people a nerd and small for his age he would get bullied and harassed by multiple classmates. He tried to get help on multiple occasions and the school was not much help their bullying protocols were not as good or strict. So, one day he figured he would plan to shoot up the school to get revenge on the classmates and staff who did not help him in his time of need and to show them he is not to be messed with or that he has the power. So, on Friday afternoon is when he got his revenge, he walked into school somehow getting by their blind spots so no one could see what happened and started to shoot the classmates while at lunch and then headed to the office and started to shoot the staff as well. He killed 15 and injured 26 people and then finally became surrounded by the police after trying to escape even after trying to shoot at the police as well he gave and killed himself as he already knows that was the best thing that he could do now as he was surrounded. Danny would be considered a mass murderer because he killed more than 3 people and went on a killing spree at that specific time in his school. He did this out of revenge for being bullied and harassed by classmates on multiple occasions. There were no patterns and no repeated shootings it was just one mass killing. He was a revenge-oriented mass killer under a subgroup of school shooters. In the PDF “Mass Murderer” (n.d.), “Bullying and teasing is most likely the main motivation behind the student’s violence. He was to get back at others who teased and bullied him.” It was also stated, “This was Danny’s case where he plotted his revenge based on the teasing and bullying of his former classmates and the staff that did not help as much.

Next, Vlad Kauffer was a middle-aged Caucasian man in his late 40’s an intelligent guy who worked in finance at a high-end bank. From the start of his childhood specifically with his mom who was not around much but open his eyes to a very sexual life and would be out late nights with random strangers due to her being a prostitute causing Vlad to take care of himself at an incredibly early age and caused anger against his mom and woman who reminded him of his mom. When she was around, she was an alcoholic and was very domineering. Vlad would stalk young women prostitutes convince them in his car take them back to his place torture, rape, and then kill them, and would dispose of the bodies by cutting them into pieces and spreading the pieces out in various locations. He wanted to rid the world of prostitutes just like his mom. He would be considered a serial killer based on the fact of the patterns, I.e., serial occasions of specific profiles of victims and killings. This was multiple victims in different periods of time and on multiple compassions compared to one big mass occasion. He would be considered mission-oriented and out for revenge. As stated by Fox & Levin (2005), “The motive of power and control encompasses what earlier typologies have termed the “mission-oriented killer” (Holmes 7 Deburger, 1988), whose crimes are designed to further a cause. Through killing, he claims an attempt to rid the world of filth and evil, such as by killing prostitutes or the homeless. “He wanted control of his life and wanted to rid anyone in that field of women who were prostitutes that reminded him of his neglectful and alcoholic mom.

Reference

Fox, J. A., & Levin, J. (2005). Defining multiple murder. In Extreme killing: Understanding serial and mass murder (pp. 15–25). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder. Copyright 2005 by Sage Publications via the Copyright Clearance Center.

Mass Murder. (n.d.). https://class.waldenu.edu/bbcswebdav/courses/USW1.17952.202310/Mass%20Murder.pdf

STUDENT REPLY #2 Nicole Holmes

A serial murderer is the killing of 2 or more victims by the same offender in separate events.

Jeffery Dahmer is an example of a serial murderer.

He started killing in 1978 at the age of 18.

Dahmer killed at least 17 people that authorities found out about.

John Wayne Gracy was another serial murderer who was convicted of 33 counts of murder, with one of his younger victims being as young as 15.

Jeffery Dahmer would lure young boys to his home, sometimes acting as if he wanted to be friends with them. Only to add to his body count.

Some say he would sodomize the deceased victims.

Dahmer can be labeled as a serial murderer because he killed multiple people at different times in separate events. Dahmer also fits the description of a serial murderer due to the cooling-off periods he had. There were no killings known about on a daily basis.

Of course, profiles are not suitable in all cases, even in some murder cases (Holmes & Holmes, 1992, 2000). They are usually more efficacious in cases where the unknown perpetrator has displayed indications of psychopathology (Geberth, 2006; Holmes & Holmes, 2000). Crimes most appropriate for psychological profiling are those where discernable patterns are able to be deciphered from the crime scene or where the fantasy/motive of the perpetrator is readily apparent.

I think this is a great example of the Jeffery Dahmer case. His documentary shows that Dahmer first started his unusual acts with a manikin.

What differentiates mass murder from serial is also the timing and number of murders. Serial killers commit murder over long periods of time. Sometimes in different locations like that of Dahmer.

His killings were based on sexual homicide and sadistic sexual assaults.

While mass murders kill within a single time frame.

Serial killers differ in their motives for killing. Dahmer was a visionary in his plot for murder.

Reference

Holmes, R. and Holmes, S. (2008) Profiling Violent Crimes. 4th edn. SAGE Publications.