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?