Stay-At-Home Serial Killers

Article: The type of serial killers that are rare and not fully understood are the killers that kill close to home and dump bodies in or near their home. Recently, a man has been charged with killing ten people and burying them inside his home and in his backyard. His killing spree went unnoticed because his house was shielded by surrounding buildings and the stench of the decaying bodies was thought to come from the meat plant nearby. His victims were people of his neighborhood and he never traveled or left town that is why he is an example of a subcategory of serial killers called stay-at-home serial killers.

Spartanburg Herald Journal 2009




Relation: Chapter 14 discusses abnormal behavior and psychological disorders in which the actions of this serial killer suggest a level of mental illness or sickness. No normal person scatters dead bodies in their home nor kills innocent people. The type of disorder I would relate this man's actions to is antisocial personality disorder because people with this disorder can be classified as sociopaths. Sociopaths have no regard or guilt for the consequences of their behavior and regularly break the law, most cases are murder.