
Originally Posted by
Batman
Ha, don't get me wrong I'm not making excuses for them, just saying that they had excuses rather than just 'I wanted to kill' even if they were just attempting to justify it to themselves, I was just trying to get across that Ramirez did it purely because he wanted to, so did Dennis Rader, no excuses just purely that they felt like it
Dahmer had issues with his sociopathy, he was a big time drinker...not sure his family really spurred his craziness on from what I know of them. I believe they were perplexed as to what the fuck was wrong with him as a kid. Gacy was abused as a kid by his alcoholic father (perhaps suffering from some sort of PTSD himself) who also lashed out at his Mother and sisters so I think that built in some scary shit into him. Funny you mention the head injury thing, Gacy was knocked out when his father hit him with a broomstick one time, he was also molested as a child himself. Gacy's father beat him for fondling a girl but also would routinely call him a "sissy" "Mama's boy" and say that Gacy would probably "grow up queer"....so yeah his evil shit was NURTURED, very darkside.
Richard Ramirez likewise had an abusive father and his head injury as a child may have caused him to develop epileptic seizures. His cousin Miguel was a piece of work too, a Green Beret who served in Vietnam and taught young Richard how to stalk and kill. Miguel ended up shooting his wife in the face after an argument. So basically Richard hid from his father's violence and was taught how to use violence for his own purposes (good, bad, indifferent....a large responsibility for a CHILD) and he bonded with Miguel and after that his sister took him in and his brother in-law Roberto was a "peeping-tom" and took lil Richard out on his "adventures"....so again he bonded with someone who taught him shit he'd eventually use for evil as there was no moral compass around for the guy.
I think Dennis Rader/BTK was just a pure sociopath more like Dahmer....born that way, not nurtured to be that way.
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