Title: The Psychology of a Serial Killer | by Sam H Arnold | CrimeBeat | Medium
Headings: The Psychology of a Serial Killer
The Psychology of a Serial Killer
Can we identify the markers that show a potential serial killer?
What Defines a Serial Killer
Six Stages of a Serial Killers Cycle.
Classic Serial Killer Characteristics
Serial Killers Have the Ability to Wear a Mask
The Urge
I wished I could stop but I could not. I had no other thrill of happiness. — Denis Nilsen
On Capture
What’s one less person on the face of the earth anyway? — Ted Bundy
A mind can be evil without abnormality. — Denis Nilsen

Content: When this mask is removed, the true persona of a serial killer is revealed. Ted Bundy could never understand why people did not accept that he just needed to kill. He killed because he wanted to and why should he stop. What’s one less person on the face of the earth anyway? — Ted Bundy
After capture, some serial killers try to take their own life. It is not being caught that causes this, it is because they are stuck in the depression stage of the cycle, not being able to kill again. The ritualistic fantasy is lost. Their victims no longer represent what the killer thought they did. They realise that murder has not erased their past and they can not change the event that resulted in the killing. They then develop a loathing for themselves, which is multiplied from before they started killing.