As I get farther and farther into my research on serial killers I'm starting to understand them slightly. After having read various sources and biographies of different killers there seems to be no one clear cut reason for their behavior. I read an in-depth biography on Jeffrey Dahmer and learned that he had what most would consider a normal childhood and very loving parents. It seems that his problems began at a very early age when he moved with his family and became very withdrawn from the world around him. On the other hand, John Wayne Gacy's father was an alcoholic that physically abused his mother and verbally berated his children. What I have noticed in my research is that a lot of serial killers have had some sort of brain injury. Is there a possibility that this could be related to them later developing into a serial killer? If that is so, then why doesn't everyone who suffers some sort of head trauma turn into a monstrous murderer? I'm starting to see that both environmental and physiological factors are at work here. Furthermore there seems to be no one combination of events and genes that will automatically generate a serial killer. I hope to find more information in my research efforts to help me draw a better conclusion in this matter.
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