The LAST blog post!

This is my last blog post because the winter semester is finally over today. I decided not to keep my blog because in all honesty I hate blogging and I just did it because I had to for my class, but because I had to I chose something that interest me and also means something to me and this subject did just that. I just want to close by saying don't always believe the headlines on the news, but research it yourself and form your own opinion on the situation, and try to look at things from every angle. It's easy to hear bad news and make a judgement, but how about trying to find the good before the bad in a person. Peace, Love, and Prosperity to you all :)

Cayetano Santos Godino

   This man has to be, hands-down, the most mentally disturbed serial killer I have read about. Godino was charged and jailed for the murder of four children, attempted murder of seven other children, and seven arson, at the age of 16. He was raised in a household where his mother and father were alcoholics and abusives. From a young child he loved to kill cats and birds and play with fire. At the age of seven he beat a two year old and threw the child in a ditch and a year later beat another child with a stone. Thankfully, both children survived. At the age of 16 he saw a young boy playing outside, lured him into a shed, and beat him, tied him up, and went to search for a hammer and a nail. He saw the boys father and told him that he hasn't seen his son. He later found a nail and nailed the side of his head. He was later sentenced into a reformatory because of medical reports declaring him insane, but was later transferred Ushuaia Penitentiary for trying to kill other inmates.He suffered frequent beating from other inmates for killing their pets. He died in the institution in 1944. I try really hard to look at the killers point of view and I know he was physically abused by his parents, but I can not defend the killing of a defenseless two year old, or any other children for that matter. He even had the opportunity to stop himself from killing the child in the shed when he saw his father, but decided to savagely kill him by hammering a nail in his head. I have nothing more to say. I have had many people tell me people similar to Godino should just be executed, but how does that make us any better than him, or they are if we were to kill them? Isn't that doing the exact same thing that he did? Do you believe human beings like Godino should be executed?

Aileen Carol Wuornos

She is another interesting serial killer to me. Wuornos was on trial for murderering seven men in Florida. She said her motive for the murders was defense because all seven men had assaulted her or tried to rape her. She was later found guilty and executed in 2002. Now, what makes her so interesting to me was her childhood. Her mother abandoned her at the age of four with her brother leaving them with their grandparents. Wuornos said that her father would frequently physically and sexually abuse her. In school she would perform sexual acts for money, cigarettes, and drugs, as a teenager. She even performed sexual acts with her own brother. She became pregnant by her grandfather's friend. The baby was given up for adoption and soon after the death of her grandmother her grandfather threw her out. She lived in the woods at the age of fifteen and became a prostitute. To me, this is a case of a child being a product of just a hard-knock-life. I, honestly, feel for this women. I can imagine all the anger and resentment she feels towards men after being raped by your grandfather and his friend. I'm not saying she has an excuse for murdering these men, but if given the right help, I honestly feel like she could have been a better person. How do you feel?

Ted Bundy

        I just wanted to talk about him because he is a different type of serial killer, in my opinion. Bundy was a well known serial killer, rapist, and necrophile( A sexual attraction to corpses). He allegedly had 30 victims, but there is suspicion to be more. He would lure his victims by faking to have a broken arm and ask for help, then beat his victim unconscious with a tire iron. He would later murder the victim in a discreet place and come back hours later and perform sexual acts on their corpses. The thing that makes him so different from any other serial killer was his motive behind all of it. What was his reason for doing all of this? Because he was rejected by his college crush, Stephanie Brooks. I usually really try to see the other person's point of view, but are you serious! Cry me a freakin river! This should be a lesson to women, don't help any man if you're all alone by yourself no matter how cute you think he is.

Hypocrites?

Most people say that it's not right to judge people no matter what, but are we hypocrites? Yet, we say it's wrong to judge as people because no one is better than the other but we give no mercy on judgements for serial killer. There's no holds bar for these human beings, or no understanding, for the public perspective in America. Our courts and government may give the defendant a fair trial, but do the citizens of America? Can these human beings, if found not guilty due to mental disfunctions, have a chance at having a decent lives and are they able to start over in the publics eyes? I'm not saying we should let serial killers off easy, but if there is something seriously mentally wrong with the defendant shouldn't that citizen get all the medical and pschological help they need, or should they just be thrown in prison?

Very First Blog Post Just Released!

What up! I'm Sparkalena and I decided to do my first blog, but also, my first essay on the mind of a serial killer. This is a topic that interest me because I don't believe that someone is just born evil, which is a typical assumption about serial killer like as if they have no soul. I would like to get other opinions and see how you feel and feel free to even disagree with me.

Why Is This Important?

Hello, everyone :)! I never really took out the time to say who I am and why it is important for not only me, but to Americans in general, to read my blog on such a touchy subject like serial killers. Let me start off by introducing myself. My name is Sparkalena and I'm a young, sassy, and sweet, women in college majoring in Nursing and hopefully will be a practicing nurse practitioner. As a nurse you have to be non-judgemental, professional, and do whatever best for your patient no matter who they may be. I feel that it is important as Americans, the homeland for opportunity and dreams, to not be judgemental and put our own personal feelings aside and look at everything we do at every single angle. We tend to demonized these people, but strangely are fascinated with serial killers and this can be seen in our media. We are so attracted to negative that we over look any other possiblities. In this blog, I intend to address both sides as a American citizen and a serial killer, also I would like to get your opinions.

Urge of Satisfaction

I always watch the same shows with my mom throughout the week and one of those shows is "Steve Wilkos". The "Steve Wilkos" show is where the host, Steve, an ex cop, has people who were accused of being child molesters, cheating, or spouse abuse, take a lie detector test to prove their innocence or have them exposed as the liar they are to the world. One episode, I was watching with my mother, was about a mother accusing the father of her child of molesting their 4 year old baby girl and like always the man denies it. He failed several lie detector test and several months after the show was found luring teenage girls on his facbook page and was finally taken to court. Many serial killers start off as child molesters or have been in court for some kind of sexual assault, but not all. It's a feeling of satisfaction for serial killers to not only kill their victim but also to sexually abuse their victim. In this case, on the "Steve Wilkos" show, this man not only molested his daughter but started to lure teenage females to his home. I honestly believe if not caught he would have to eventually start killing these girls to cover his track and wouldn't be able to fight the urge, so he would do it again and again and the cycle would continue, and I also believe that's how most serial killers start off. They can not fight that urge of satisfaction. What do you believe?

PSA Serial Killers

Lately, I have been thinking about the assignment in my class, which is to create a public service announcement but I was a little lost at first. My question to myself was how would you create a public service announcement that would reflect my subject about serial killers? Then I thought of the idea to do PSA on kidnapping because the serial killer abducts their victim. The PSA is going to show a kid wanting to go outside and their mother said "Yes, but don't leave the front yard", then the child runs outside and hears the ice cream truck and a man comes along and tells the child "You want an ice cream cone?", and the child responds "yes", and walks off with the man and is never seen again. That's all I got for now but I will think of some more ideas.

Forgive & Forget, or Not?

               After, researching homicide and various different murderers and serial killers I started to judge these human beings. I also started to think about the victims and their families. I thought about the serial killer Jr., John Wayne Gacy.  He owned his own business and would hire teenage young man and would sexually harrassed his male employees. He was later charged and plead guilty to trying to handcuff and force his employee to preform sexual acts on him. He molested and killed 33 young man total and buried most of the bodies under his home, which caused a terrible smell in his home. I started to think about if I was a member of the victims families and how I would feel? If it were my son, grandson, brother, nephew, or cousin, and how I would react? I won' t say what I would think or what I would do, because I don't want to inflence any opinions, but I would like to know how would you feel and would you be able to forgive and forget?

Truth or a Easy Way Out?

                 I was reading about the most notorious serial killer of them all and I bet you can guess who. None other than Jeffrey Dahmer. I was reading the internet article, "Jeffrey Dahmer-Serial Killer and Cannibal", by Marilyn Bardsley.  It was so sickening that I had to turn my head as I was trying to press the thought out of my mind when I read, "He strangle the asian boy and had sex with his corpse". The boy was only fourteen years old. He was, eventually, caught when the police saw a black man running down the street in handcuffs and he explained how Jeffrey tried to attack him at his apartment. The police went back to Jeffrey apartment and discovered pictures of various victims in his room and severed heads in the freezer. In total he killed and mutilated 15 people. I learned that his defense was insanity. His attorney explanation was that something is psychologically wrong with him and that he had no control over what he did. There are some serial killers who, I believe, had psychological issues.
              One, I believe, to have suffered psychological issues is Arnold Sodeman, who murdered four little girls. I know he murdered four little girls but first please hear me out and then make your own assumptions. I was reading from the website http://www.murderpedia.org/male.S/s/sodeman-arnold.htm and discovered his mother suffered from amnesia, also his father and grandfather died in mental institutions. He confessed to the murders willingly and at first the police didn't believe him until he told them what was the last thing the little girls ate before they died, which was something only the killer would know. He didn't want to reprieve, or to cancel or postpone his punishment, because he feared that he would kill again. Before his execution as quoted from the website, http://www.murderpedia.org/male.S/s/sodeman-arnold.htm, he said "I'm gald it is nearly over". His autopsy showed he suffered from chronic lepto-meningitis, which is inflammation of the brain after the intake of alcohol. It was later discovered that he was intoxicated during each murder. Do you think that either one of these killers suffered from a psychological issue and that it was their true purpose for killing or is it a easy way out?

Why They Kill?

I was reading over the article from Wikipedia, "Serial Killers", and I was trying to figure out why do serial killers murder. There were those who murdered because of their upbring. Their intent is to hurt others around them because of the hurt that they have felt as a child. There are some who kill because of pschological issues that they are not even aware of. There were those who killed to survive and they would rob their victims. There were even those who killed because they just like to, but women are rare to be a serial killer and usually their motive is revenge. Why do you think women are rare to be serial killers and why are women their motives different from men?