In La Donna Beaty’s essay “What Makes a Serial Killer?” she wanted to show what secrets and motivations a serial killer has. Serial killing is nothing new, it goes all the way back to Cain killing Abel in the Old Testament of the Bible. Now serial killing has reached an unbelievable level.
Ann Rule, one of Beaty’s sources, states that up to 5,000 people are victimized by serial killers in the United States of America each year (180). There is also another astonishing number; many estimate that there are 350 serial killers at large that we do not know a