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Your child may have been born a serial kill, but never act like a serial killer. Many people in the world think that serial killers are created over time, but serial killers are actually born.
A classic example of an upbringing of a child who turned out to be a serial killer Ted Bundy. Growing up, Mr. Bundy didn’t have a normal childhood, he was bullied as a kid and had family problems. Mr. Bundy wanted people to think that he didn’t have a bad childhood. He also thinks that he didn’t show signs of a killer at a young age. In an interview, Mr. Bundy was telling the interviewer how normal his life was. “As an adult, Bundy seemed intent on painting an idyllic picture of his childhood. He told death row interviewers that he spent his youth engaging in totally normal activities: playing football with classmates, going fishing with friends, and catching frogs” (Pruitt, Oxygen Official Site). In more research that was done and put into a documentary, they found out that Mr. Bundy did have a bad childhood and was lying to people about it. “But others interviewed for the Netflix special told a different story; Bundy was bullied for a speech impediment as a child, and as a teen, “wanted to be something that he wasn’t,” one childhood acquaintance recalled.,” but he insisted in other interviews that nothing in his past would lead people to believe he would be able to commit murder” (Pruitt, Oxygen Official Site). Mr. Bundy’s childhood is important because the environment he was in has to do with why he became a famous serial killer murdering 30 women.
Even though Mr. Bundy did show signs of a serial killer, he did help to save a little boy's life. Mr. Bundy also claims to have worked a suicide hotline. There are many signs Mr. Bundy showed that would make people think that he was a serial killer, but saving people's lives isn’t one of them.In 1970 the parents of little boy were not paying attention, and the little boy ran off into a lake. Ted Bundy was one of the first people to spot the little boy and ran to save him from drowning (“A Killer in Plain Sight: 6 Facts about Serial Killer Ted Bundy”, Historycollection). Not only did Mr. Bundy save a little boy from drowning, but he also claims to have worked for a suicide hotline back in the 1970s ( “A Killer in Plain Sight: 6 Facts about Serial Killer Ted Bundy”,Historycollection.com). Although Mr. Bundy did help save people, many people believe he wanted to show that he was a kind person and couldn’t be a killer.
Another serial killer who has sort of the same type of child up-bringing is Jeffery Dahmer. Unlike Mr. Bundy, Jeffery Dahmer had surgery when he was four years old, people in his family said that he changed after the surgery (“Jeffery Dahmer”,Biography.com). The surgery is one of many things that triggered Mr. Dahmer to become a serial killer he did. “Dahmer claims that his compulsions toward necrophilia and murder began around the age of 14” (Biography.com). Another thing that could’ve triggered Dahmer is the fact that he had a drinking problem, and that had a huge effect on the things he did (Biography.com). All of these factors affect the way Dahmr acted and thought. Growing up the way Damhr did, everything around him could’ve been the reason he became a serial killer. As a child Damhr was surrounded by alcohol and drugs. Also he was abandoned by his family. He felt like he was a loner and didn’t really fit in (“Jeffery Dahmer”,Thefamouspeople.com). Everything that has happened in his life has led him to where he was.
Both of these serial killers are great examples of people who grew up with bad childhood. The reason these two guys were used is because people are born as a serial killer. People are born with the brain of a serial killer but they don’t always have to turn out to be a serial killer. Many people believe that when babies are born, they are born with a clean, pure mind and that may be true, but they could have the mind of a serial killer. There is a difference between a normal brain and the brain of a serial killer. In an article called Crime Reads it states the physical differences “serial killers have a 5 to 10% reduction in grey matter around the limbic system, the region where emotions are processed. This significant size difference is especially prominent in the amygdala, small glands that are directly linked to empathy and the regulation of fear. People with oversized amygdala tend to be super-altruists and those with smaller than average amygdala tend to be empathy-deficient” (Ellison, Crimeread). With this research people can see that you can be born with the brain of a serial killer, but that doesn’t mean that, that person will become a serial killer.
The reason people who have the brain of a serial killer but, don’t become a serial killer is because the type of connections you have in the brain and the environment that a person grows up in. A Neuroscientist named Jim Fallon did research to back this up. In his research, he was doing scans of the brain to see if there is a difference that could be seen between a serial killer and normal person. During Dr. Fallon’s research he found a scan that showed that person could be a serial killer, come to find out it was Dr. Fallon’s own scan (Borreli, Medical Daily). The question is how could someone who had the brain of a serial killer become a greatly respected neuroscientist? That is where the person's environment and how they grew up comes in. The way that the connections in the brain works is that something such as child abuse, or brain injury, drinking, doing drugs, etc. can trigger a connection in that persons brain and them become a serial killer. In Dr. Fallon’s research he says “When it comes to childhood, serial killers are more likely to have experienced child abuse than society in general. In a study of 50 serial killers, researchers found about 70 percent experience some maltreatment and 50 percent go through psychological abuse growing up” (Borreli, Medical daily).
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