Recently, Gao Mou, the murderer of the Gansu Baiyin serial rape and murder case, was arrested, which can also be regarded as a consolation to the victim's spirit in heaven. Looking at all the reports on the case, the media's performance can only be described in two words - garbage. A rush to report "the murderer looks honest and ordinary" and other nonsense that annoys netizens, which murderer has 4 words written on his face "I am a killer"?
Before most murderers are exposed, they often have a mediocre or even good public impression. The more mediocre it is, the easier it is to hide in the vast sea of people, and the less likely it is to be discovered by the police. Yes, they are not much different from the honest or beautiful men around you in many ways, except that they are sexually perverted, extremely controlling or mentally ill, and have no compassion at all.
"Horror", "Silence of the Lambs", "Buffalo Bill" prototype: Edward Gein
Guyn was a small-town farmer in the United States in the early 20th century, who seemed shy, quiet, and introverted to outsiders. Although the number of victims under his butcher's knife was not many, only 3 people, but his cruelty and ruthlessness still seemed to be numb. He skinned and dismembered the dead and made them into various handicrafts. In the end, Gein was not sentenced, but was sent to a mental hospital.
Gein's mental illness is inseparable from his extremely religiously fanatical mother, an old woman who severely suppresses the children's desire for sex and threatens to go down to hell, resulting in Extreme Cognitive Confusion and Personality Distortion. In Hitchcock's "Horrors", the focus is on the protagonist Norman's morbid dependence on his mother, rather than the pathological means of killing and disposing of corpses, which is mainly reflected in "The Silence of the Lambs". (Below: Norman the killer in the movie "Horror Story")
Ted Bondi Prototype: Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy, known as the "Beauty Killer," killed at least 30 beautiful young women. Ted has a charming face and a confident smile, a high-achieving law student at a prestigious university, and a master of talking to women. Later, the women who were successfully hooked up by him were almost all killed by him.
Even if he is in jail, there are many women crying and shouting to marry her, it is difficult to know whether these women are Stockholm Syndrome or want to take advantage of the opportunity to become famous, but Ted's evil motivation stems from the inability to endure the frustration of lovelornship and revenge on women who look similar to his ex-girlfriend. Although he loves to show off his charms, he is still the top loser among the losers.
Nightstalker prototype: Richard Ramirez
He killed at least 19 people, without a specific means of murder and target group, arguably the most terrible type of killer, not for anything else, just for killing. He liked to sneak into other people's homes at night, then shoot or strangle adult men, then violently rape, kill and dismember women and children, and then put down his logo, an inverted five-pointed star.
The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Archetype: Gay Killer Jeffrey Dahmer
In the film, Hannibal is a highly intelligent ogre with great artistic aesthetic taste; in reality, Jeffrey is outstanding, and has been sexually harassed by neighbor boys since he was a child, which makes him have a fear and rebellious psychology about sex, he is gay, and he hates homosexuality. At the age of 10, he liked to "experiment" with small animals: he divided their corpses and disposed of them with a liquid of sulfuric acid---- which was almost the prototype of his "standard" modus operandi in serial killings in the future. (Top: Jeffrey Damor; bottom: Hannibal played by Anthony Hopkins)
"The Changing Son": "Chicken Coop Serial Murder" By Gordan Northcott
The film focuses on the 1940s, when angelina Jolie's mother confronts police bureaucracy and the abusive psychiatric hospital in search of her missing son, waiting until the real culprit is caught. Although her son was never recovered, Gordon Northcott, the demon who tortured and killed dozens of boys, was arrested by the police and sentenced to death. (Above: Gordon Northcott in history; below: The Killer in the movie)
In reality, Gordon Northcott is a freak born to a chaotic family. He was the product of his maternal grandfather (in fact, his father) committing adultery with his own mother, who was also involved in the killings. In short, this is a family of perverts, will it be inherited from the genetic problems of someone in their family? It is no longer known.
Citizen X Prototype: Andrei Chikatilo
The most notorious killer in the history of the former Soviet Union, who brutalized 53 women and boys between 1978 and 1990, and committed perverted acts such as carcasses and cannibalism. According to the researchers, Chikatilo's pathological personality is inseparable from childhood experiences, first being indoctrinated that "his brother was eaten by his neighbors" and then witnessing his mother being sexually abused by German soldiers, the former leading him to form the idea that "the same kind can eat each other", and the latter making him sexually impotent. When his father was slandered as a traitor, he developed an extreme psychology of revenge against society. (Above: The real Andrei Chicatillo; below: The Killer in Citizen X)
The film gives the following answers to the reasons why Chikatilo's murder was so rampant: due to the bureaucracy and social unrest in the former Soviet Union, and the recognition of serial killers as "the evil consequences of the degeneration of the West" and the refusal to face up to the existence of the case, Chicatillo was able to get away with it for a long time.
Helter Skelter Prototype: Charles Manson
The terrible thing about Manson is that it wasn't just a one-man crime, but the establishment of the manson family. In the 1960s, when young Americans were obsessed with drugs and rock'n' roll, a group of middle-class women admired manson, a wild and unruly guitarist with a youthful mentor temperament (until he was old, there were also young women who had to marry him). Manson, who was severely racist, began killing in 1969, and the first wave of victims were the wife of the famous Jewish director Polanski and five other people, when Polanski went out to make a movie to avoid a disaster, and his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, and 5 people were tortured and killed.
The next victims were the supermarket owner La Bianca and his wife. However, after the incident, a female member of the organization was arrested in other cases, thus shaking up Manson's crime. During the trial of Manson and others, members of the "Manson family" sang slogans in support of Manson every day outside the courtroom.
Green River Killer Prototype: Gary Leon Ridgway
Although the movie is relatively bad, it is not as good as the adaptation in the American drama "Criminal Minds", but the real case behind it is chilling. Between 1980 and 2000, at least 48 people were killed near the Green River in the southern suburbs of Seattle, USA. Gary Ridgeway's killers were mostly sex workers, homeless women and women on the road begging for free rides. In his words, "they were easily taken away and no one called the police after they disappeared."
Gary Ridgeway is not mentally ill and is a calm and sober killer who would not have fought a protracted battle with the police in court to save his life. After divorcing his first wife, he went out to prostitute himself and contracted an STD, so he began to hate women. It has been reported that Richway grew up in an environment full of domestic violence and has a distorted cult of violence.
Unlike mentally ill people like Edward Guyn, most serial killers grew up in violent, humane and twisted family environments, and could not allow themselves to grow up after encountering setbacks, but instead had a paranoid mentality of "everything I failed is someone else's fault". They often do not dare to face the direct causes of their frustration, but only to vent their anger on the innocent. However, unless the violent tendency caused by genetic and physiological reasons is out of control, it is also grown up in a poor and violent environment, and many people have good character and compassion. Leaving any responsibility to the outside world is a pure rogue move.
So you have to ask what kind of face do serial killers have? There may be only one commonality, and the face is full of one word: loser.