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Cleveland seeks survivors of 'house of horrors'
Nov 17th, 2009 - Washington Post
CLEVELAND -- Now that most of the bodies found at the home of a suspected serial killer have been identified, Cleveland is turning its attention to the living - to any...
Rally at Cleveland bodies house thanks coroner
Nov 17th, 2009 - Washington Post
CLEVELAND -- Residents have come together in Cleveland to thank the coroner's office for quickly identifying women whose remains were found at the home of a suspected serial killer.
Pictures: Who Were the Women Found at Anthony Sowell's House?
Nov 16th, 2009 - CBS News
(National Center for Missing Adults)Photo: Tonia Carmichael. CLEVELAND (CBS/AP) Authorities have now identified 10 of the 11 victims whose remains were found at the Cleveland home of accused serial killer Anthony Sowell.
Police Search Home Near Sowell's as Victims' Families Hold Funerals
Nov 15th, 2009 - FOXNews
CLEVELAND — Cleveland police focused their search for evidence on a house just four doors down from suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell's home on Saturday, after a 9-year-old girl told authorities she found something in the backyard...
FBI finds no new bodies in Cleveland backyard
Nov 15th, 2009 - Dispatch
CLEVELAND (AP) -- FBI agents sifted through dirt with rakes and shovels yesterday in the backyard of a suspected serial killer's home and ran a thermal-imaging device...

Serial Killer videos from YouTube:

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Criminal Minds - The Work of A Serial Killer
The team begins their search for a serial killer who annihilates families.
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Criminal Minds - Meeting With A Serial Killer
Prentiss and Hotchner seek advice from "The Fox," one of the most horrific killers from the team's past.
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serial killers: the real life hannibal lecters part 1 of 6
This documentary primarily covers the psychological profiles and exploits of three particular serial killers (Albert Fish, Andrei Chikatilo, and Jeffrey Dahmer), and features various psychologists ...
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Serial Killer Schaefer 1 of 4
Excerpt from French documentary on serial killers.

Serial Killer from WikiPedia:

A serial killer is a person who murders three or more people over a period of more than 30 days, with a "cooling off" period between each murder, and whose motivation for killing is largely based on psychological gratification. Often, a sexual element is involved with the killings. The murders may have been attempted or completed in a similar fashion and the victims may have had something in common, for example occupation, race, appearance, gender, or age group.

Coinage of the English term serial killer is commonly attributed to former FBI Special Agent Robert Ressler in the 1970s. The concept had been described earlier, e.g. by German police inspector Ernst Gennat coining the same term in 1930.

Psychosis is rarely noted among serial killers. The predominant psychiatric diagnosis noted in the group tends toward the psychopathic, meaning they suffer from traits within a specific cluster of dysfunctional personality characteristics, those most commonly associated with Antisocial Personality Disorder or Dissocial personality disorder. Psychopaths lack empathy and guilt, are egocentric and impulsive, and do not conform to social, moral and legal norms.