... Murderer" who drunk his own urine to prove that he was insane to the jury. A major psychological abnormality of a serial killer is the development of an alter ego, referred to by psychologists as "alternate personality disorder". These "evil" sides are sometimes created to take the blame of the acts of a serial killer in the serial killers mind, or even in the court room. Most cases are ... obsessed with blood. Peter Kurten once said that "chief satisfaction in killing was to catch the blood spurting from a victim's wounds in his mouth and swallow it." All of these states are psychologi...

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... that Henry and Edward were never allowed to enter. Edward had accepted this, and had neither the inclination or the courage to disobey her. One day, however, Edward tired of waiting for his mother, peeked through a crack in the door. The sight that met him was not what he was expecting. His mother ... Edward nursed her for a year before a second attack took her life in December 1945. She was buried on the 31st of December. This was the first time Edward was alone. He was 39. In this solitude, Edward began to withdraw from reality. He had begun to develop a deeply unhealthy interest in the...

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• Grade Level: High School