Growing a Serial Killer

Serial killers are often friends, neighbors, spouses or sweethearts of people who buy into the killer’s persona of normality. Some never even suspect the truth until the killer is caught or confesses.
But, how did it happen? How did this seemingly normal person become a monster, a sadistic, ruthless murderer? How could he kill once and relish the experience so much that he kills over and over again? How did it begin?
My father, an infantryman on the front lines in World War II, told me when I was a girl that there was nothing more exhilarating than killing another human being. I didn’t know quite how to take that back then, but I do now. He was teaching me that it is in our nature to kill.
Killing is easier for some than for others, and so addictive to a few they cannot stop. Those few most likely experienced the thrill of killing in their childhood. Their victims are small, helpless animals whom they torture and murder. Each kill feeds their need to kill, but only briefly.
When the kills get common place and boring, the murderer child moves on to larger animals, always with his eyes on the weak or injured. As he gets older and moves to humans, he usually experiments at first, torturing or molesting in some way, but not yet killing.
Each time he gets away with an attack, he becomes more confident, convinced he will get away with it again. He comes to believe he is too clever to get caught.
Each time, he tortures or molests the thrill is dulled by its repetition. He needs more.
He is self-absorbed, the satisfaction of his own needs paramount to everything else. By successfully fooling those close to him, he empowers himself and gains more confidence. He convinces himself his victims deserve to die for whatever reason he concocts. He feels their pain, but only because it elicits joy within him. The rush inside him is so addictive he cannot turn back, nor does he want to turn back.
When he begins to kill his human victims, his exhilaration is uncontrollable. It lingers, but when the exhilaration fades, he must kill again. Kill until he is stopped.
Think about it. Is there anyone close to you who's a killer?

by Shawna Ryan
author: DESTINY’S DAMNED & SATAN’S SCAT (Thrillers)

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