Editor’s Note: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence. For decades, criminologists and true crime documentaries have attempted to understand what causes serial killers to commit the ...
(CNN) -- For decades, criminologists and true crime documentaries have attempted to understand what causes serial killers to commit the atrocities they do. Dennis Rader, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey ...
It seems obvious that anyone who willfully and repeatedly commits murder is a psychopath: remorseless, egotistical, manipulative, and cruel. Think of Ted Bundy, Dennis Rader, or John Wayne Gacy.
Psychopaths and sociopaths are diagnoses that are often associated with serial killers. But for those of us that are not experts in the field of psychology, what do these disorders actually mean?