Serial Killers
Serial Killers Understanding Lust Murder Phillip C. Shon Dragan Milovanovic Carolina Academic Press Durham, North Carolina
Copyright 2006 Phillip C. Shon Dragan Milovanovic All Rights Reserved Shon, Phillip C. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Serial killers : understanding lust murder / by Phillip C. Shon and Dragan Milovanovic. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-59460-178-X 1. Serial murderers. 2. Serial murders. I. Milovanovic, Dragan. II. Title. HV6515.S545 2006 364.152'3--dc22 2006010127 Carolina Academic Press 700 Kent Street Durham, North Carolina 27701 Telephone (919) 489-7486 Fax (919) 493-5668 www.cap-press.com Printed in the United States of America
Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Phillip C. Shon and Dragan Milovanovic Lust Homicide 1 Rise of Serial Killers 2 Female Serial Lust Homicide 4 Defining Sexual and Serial Homicide 5 Motivational Models 11 The Role of Paraphilia in Lust Murders 17 Media, Lust Serial Killers, and the Public 22 Organization of Chapters 25 Part I Theory of Sexual Homicide and Sexually Violent Predatory Laws Chapter 2 They Must Be Crazy... Aren t They? Legal Issues with Sexual Serial Murderers 31 Margaret R. Kohut, Mark S. Carich, and Angeline Stanislaus Introduction 31 Defining Criminal Sexual Homicide 33 Pre-Trial Assessment and Competency to Stand Trial 37 The Insanity Defense 40 Designer Defenses 44 Famous Fakers 48 Conclusion 50 Chapter 3 Sexual Murder and Sexual Serial Killers: Toward a Mind-Body Developmental Theory 53 Mark S. Carich, Dawn Fisher, and Margaret R. Kohut Introduction 53 Definitions of Sexual Murder versus Serial Sexual Murder 54 The Lifestyle of a Sexual Serial Killer 54 Antisocial (Psychopathic) Themes 56 Narcissistic Themes 57 v
vi TABLE OF CONTENTS Borderline Themes 57 Schizoid Themes 58 The Developmental Process: A Proposed Theory of Mind-Body Development 58 Constructivism 59 Teleological Perspective 59 Self-Determinism 60 Holistic View 60 Developmental Patterns and Processes 61 The Etiological Telelogical Mind-Body Developmental Process 61 Mind-Body Developmental Encoding Process 65 Mind-Body Process 66 Treatment Applications 67 Amenability Issues 68 Treatment Parameters and Considerations 69 Key Assumptions 69 Key Points 70 Conclusion 71 Chapter 4 Sexual Homicide, Serial Murder, and Lust Killing: Theoretical Integrations and Practical Limitations 73 Bruce A. Arrigo and Catherine E. Purcell Introduction 73 Background on Paraphilia and Lust Murder 74 The Motivational Model 76 Ineffective Social Environment 76 Formative Events Child/Adolescent 77 Patterned Responses to Formative Events 77 Actions Toward Others 79 Feedback Filter 79 The Trauma Control Model 80 Predispositional Factors 80 Traumatic Events 80 Low Self-Esteem/Fantasies 81 Dissociation 81 Trauma Reinforcers 81 Facilitators 82 Increasingly Violent Fantasies 82 Homicidal Behavior 82 The Integrated Model 83 Formative Development 83
TABLE OF CONTENTS vii Predispositional Factors 83 Traumatic Events 84 Low Self-Esteem 84 Early Fantasy and Paraphilic Development 85 Paraphilic Process 85 Behavioral Manifestations 87 Increasingly Violent Fantasies 87 Practical Limitations and Future Directions 88 Confusion within the Literature 88 Definitional and Operational Problems 89 No Sophisticated Empirical Studies 89 Conclusion 90 Part II Paraphilias and Lust Murder Chapter 5 Sexual Homicide: A British Investigation of Motivation and Implicit Theories 93 Dawn Fisher, Anthony Beech, Mark S. Carich, and Margaret R. Kohut Introduction 93 Differentiating Rapists From Sexual Murderers 94 Sex Crimes and Implicit Theories: A Constructivist Position 95 Implicit Theories and Sexual Homicide 99 Discussion 108 Treatment Applications 109 Conclusion 110 Chapter 6 Piquerism: The Investigative Challenge of Serial Murder 113 DeVere D. Woods, Jr. Introduction 113 MO versus Signature 113 Piquerism As a Signature 116 Investigating Serial Murder 118 Conclusion 120 Chapter 7 A Synthesis and Reinterpretation of Necrophilia in the Context of Lust Murders: The Role of Fate 123 Deanna Cahill, Rachel Dickey, and Phillip C. Shon Introduction 123 Necrophilia in Context 124 Etiology of Necrophilia 126 Necrophilia in Relation to Other Paraphilias 131
viii TABLE OF CONTENTS Discussion and Conclusion 134 Part III Media Influence and Edgework Chapter 8 The Portrayal of Extreme Crime by the Media: Reflecting or Creating Fear? 139 John Randolph Fuller Introduction 139 If It Bleeds, It Leads 140 The Serial Murder Poster Boy: Ted Bundy 142 Mass Murder 144 Media Coverage 146 Lust-Murder 148 Conclusion 149 Chapter 9 High Profile Serial Killers and Capital Punishment 1977 1994 151 Christopher Kudlac Introduction 151 Case Studies 154 The Newspaper Coverage of Ted Bundy 154 Bundy s Trials 154 Bundy s Execution 155 The Newsworthiness of Ted Bundy 155 The Newspaper Coverage of John Wayne Gacy 157 Trial Coverage 158 The Execution Coverage 158 The Newsworthiness of the John Wayne Gacy Story 159 The Newspaper Coverage of Richard Ramirez 160 Trial Coverage 161 The Newsworthiness of the Richard Ramirez Story 162 The Newspaper Coverage of Aileen Wuornos 163 The Newsworthiness of the Aileen Wuornos Story 165 The Unattractive Serial Killers: Gerald Stano, Randy Kraft, and Ronald Simmons 166 Conclusion 168 Chapter 10 Crime, Subjectivity, and Edgework: The Case of Lust Homicide 171 Phillip C. Shon and Dragan Milovanovic Introduction 171 Modes of Subjectivization and the Creativity of Rule Breaking 172
TABLE OF CONTENTS ix The Ceremonial Aspects of Lust Homicide 175 The Auto-Alloplasticity of Serial Murder 178 Edgework and Lust Homicide 183 Conclusion 192 References 195 Biographies of Contributors 215 Index 219 Author Index 223