{UAH} Serial Killers

Edward p'Ojim, Moses Nekyon, WBK,

I am connected on an American cable TV called Reality. It specialises on crime and for the last one month, I have been watching each night without fail a recast or documentary of America's serial killers.  

It is truly chilling and shows a violent side of America that is almost impossible to understand. The programme is not just about killing, but is also an attempt to understand why human beings are driven to commit some of the most brutal crimes known to mankind. So it brings together the police detectives who solve the crimes, and the psychologists who try to explain some of the most evil and sadistic actions committed by human beings and in many cases by apparently normal people. We are left to ask: are some human beings born to kill? 

I have so far watched :

1. The Zodiac killer- 37 victims

2.  The Hitchhikers Killer Donald Gaskins- 80-90 victims 

3. Ted Bundy- 30 victims 

4. The Angel of Death Charles Cullen-convicted for murder of 40 elderly victims, but believed to have murdered  300.

5. The Milwaukee Cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer- 17 young boys

6. The Burial King John Wayne Gacy-33 murders in Chicago, but believed to have murdered more. He became notorious for confessing to yet another murder just days before his execution for sentences already handed over so as to delay his execution He did this two or three times, until the governor tired and just authorised his execution otherwise he could still be alive, confessing to a murder every two years or so.

The one I have just finished watching is that of Rodney Alcala who was convicted of the murder of 5 women, but is believed  to have murdered 138!

America truly has a dark side- that's why I don't think the Uk justice system and adherence to the rule of law would really work there. America is essentially violent society which perhaps requires a level of official brutality that would never be tolerated in the European countries.