In many cases, serial killers began their lives as remotely normal human beings. Most, however, have detectable characteristics of murderers before they hit puberty. Otis O'toole, for example, started a neighbourhood fire when he was six. George Adorno was even younger when he first displayed his pyromaniac tendencies by setting fire to his own sister when he was four. Along with pyromaniac behavior, other often-cited warning signs are enuresis (bed-wetting) and cruelty toward animals. Often, serial murderers are abused physically, psychologically, and sexually as children, sometimes from a stranger, but in most cases from a trusted family member or friend. Typically, they come from broken families, usually abandoned by their fathers and raised by domineering mothers, with histories of alcoholism.
William March coined the term ‘bad seed' in reference to serial killings. Researchers in the 1960's pursued men with "XYY syndrome", or a surplus male chromosome. Studies show that males with an extra chromosome are generally more aggressive, violent, and it is statistically proven that men with this extra ‘maleness' have a far greater tendency towards criminal activity. There is an estimated 100,000 males with this ‘alpha male disease' in the...
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