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The murders are senseless. The killers are viscous. They could invoke a ritual of terror including rape, torture and eventually death. Death by strangulation, knifing and use of firearms. The usual prey includes women and boys, but everyone is vulnerable. Th ....

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.... participants referred to ‘crimes in series’...Ressler began using a variation- ‘serial killers’...”(70). Murder has always been a part of society, and serial murder has always existed. The terminology used to describe this most heinous of crimes, however has changed over centuries. Four hundred years ago, killers in the European countryside were referred to as lyncanthropes, a Greek word meaning wolf-man. An Italian physician named Cesare Lombroso came up with a similar term for these serial killers. Lombroso believed that criminals were “atavistic," meaning they were savage Stone Age men from the prehistoric past. Lombroso deducte ....