The Link Between Animal Abuse and Serial Killers
Some children are cruel to and torture animals to impress their peers, but future serial killers usually torture animals purely for their own enjoyment. Animal abuse is a recognized sign of a mental disorder. If a child hurts animals it should be a red flag and immediate action should be taken. While there are many factors that contribute to someone becoming a serial killer, the one constant they share is animal abuse.
Jeffrey Dahmer showed an intense interest in dismembering animals as a child. As an adult he was charged with murdering and dismembering at least sixteen people. Dahmer is just one example of this. As a matter of fact, most people who are on death row for murder admit to abusing animals as children. A study done by North Eastern University and the Massachusetts SPCA found that people who abuse animals are five times more likely to abuse humans than people who do not. Albert Schweitzer said it best when the wrote that "Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives".
This article is intended to inform but also to help. Any parent who sees this type of behavior in their children should immediately seek out help for the child. These are not isolated incidents, as I said earlier almost every serial killer has a history of animal abuse. This is a fact, not a coincidence. You can go to this link for a more complete list of serial killers who abused and/or killed animals as children. I can't give you the complete list here as there are too many to name, but I will give a few examples.
Albert Disalvo (better known as the Boston Strangler) used to trap dogs and cats as a child and then shoot them with arrows.
Edward Emil Kemper lll was convicted of killing eight women, one of which was his own mother. When he was thirteen yrs. old he would kill neighborhood cats and put their heads on poles. Kemper killed his own cat, decapitated it and then cut it into small pieces. This is the same thing he did to his own mother!
David Berkowitz was convicted of thirteen murders and attempted murders. He used to abuse the neighborhood dogs. He shot one neighbors dog because according to him, the dog was an "evil force" that compelled him to kill.
Ted Bundy was convicted of two murders though he was suspected of at least forty! Bundy used to watch as his own father tortured animals. Eventually, Bundy did the same.
Andrew Cunanan was the man who killed designer Versace and was suspected in the murders of five other people. Cunanan used to gather crabs and then burn their eyes out with a lighted match. He would watch their eyes sizzle then turn them loose.
Animal cruelty is a very serious crime in more ways than one as I think I've proved here. If you notice this behavior in a child, PLEASE take appropriate action and get them help immediately.
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Post a Commentyou have wrong info about Jeffrey Dahmer. He was not cruel with animals. otherwise he loved them. the animals he used in his childhood were animals he found already dead by trucks. he lived in a rural area and the principal streets were used heavely by trucks. Dahmer was not cruel to animals. get your facts before posting what other keep posting.
Karma's a bitch. That's all im gonna say in response to that piece of crap who tried drowning a dog. If you were that messed up as a child, I cannot even IMAGINE how messed up you are now. You are in denial. You never got help. You don't simply grow out of something that masochistic. You are absolutely disgusting and it's absolutely disgusting knowing you take pride in what you did as a child. You should be utterly ashamed of your past.
Ok, Glixxerbabe, first of all, no one should listen to someone with a stripper name, and second of all, would you drown and beat the heck out of a child, just to have power, and because it felt good? Animals are just as helpless and defenseless as them, so I feel sorry for your future children.
Glixxerbabe You make me sick I care about animals not to mention WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD TRY TO DROWN A DOG! I hope it bit you
“Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends†-George Bernard Shaw
Killing is killing.
“There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.†- Leonardo da Vinci
“Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends†-Leonardo da Vinci
Gixxerbabe, shut up. You are a complete idiot. You make no sense at all and it's best you shut that hole underneath your nose.
Oh yes one more thing I am surprised there aren't any pet activists showing signs of also being an insect activist. Are people going to get their panties in a wad over killing spiders and flies? pathetic. We all know PETA if I recall hates it when people kill fish of all things. I can open a whole can of worms here about this article but why waste anymore of my precious time it'll all be archived eventually.
(continued) a random unidentified NEO asteroid and there are lots of them on it's way to kill most of mankind if not all as it's sole purpose is just meant to destruct most of everything - that's more worth the time then some children beating animals. You cannot prevent future kids from torturing and there will always be unlimited amounts of killers of various kinds out there so why bother. Lost cause.
Complete BULL-SHIT article but fascinating! When I was a kid and I'm female. I used to try and drown one dog and beat the heck out of another because it felt good to torture just to see what the animal would do in return I liked the power back then. NOW here I am in present time in my early twenties attending college earning a bachelors doing well in school and loving the good life with family and friends. So not all who torture animals become sociopaths, have been abused, or have some pathology disorder. But I must say we are who we are everyone is an "animal." One of these days some people are going to have to do what they don't want to do- such as kill. If anarchy ever sets into play killing will be a field day. On another note animal activists or people who feel too sorry for animals being hurt annoy me. GET OVER IT!! there are plenty of animals in this world and bigger things to worry about then some PETS being tortured and the kids that harm them. instead how about worrying about