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  • Essay / Katherine Ramsland Case Study - 1924

    We've mainly talked about men, but now let's talk about female serial killers. When people think of a psychopathic killer, we usually think of a man and we have no idea what a woman's abilities are. After studying in this article, they classified female serial killers into 7 different categories. These categories would be black widow, angel of death, revenge killer, murder for profit or criminal, killer whose sanity is in question, team killer, and sexual predator. So you see that female serial killers may not be common, but they are often secretive and quite dangerous when brought into play. When looking for a psychopath, there is a unique checklist that they talked about in This item. Firstly and for the most part, they tend to be quiet and unsociable, but at the same time they are charming. They are very manipulative to get what they want, this goes back to the article “Serial Killer Sadomasochistic Protagonist in the Killer Inside Me”. This article is an excellent representation of my topic because it focuses on how to tell when someone is a psychopath, aka "Serial Killer." This directly answers my question about what makes a serial killer by identifying the personality traits of