Dr. Killer Network

The age-old chicken-or-the-egg riddle applies when trying to understand mind of a killer: Is it the serial killer psychological makeup affirming itself through murder, or is it their environment that creates the capacity within them to kill others? Complicating the issue further is the various typologies of murderers – does a certain psychological condition make [...]

There are names that are so infamous that their mere mention strikes anxiety and dread into hearts: “Dahmer” is among them. It does not need a first name attached to it; in fact, the isolated nature of the sir name is more than appropriate. “Dahmer” remains symbolic for the detachment with which serial killer Jeffrey [...]

“This must sound rich coming from me,” explains the Japanese cannibal Issei Sagawa to Vice Magazine in 2009, “but the moment the girl became a corpse, I realized that I had lost an important friend and even regretted killing her… my ultimate intention was to eat her, not necessarily to kill her.” The man widely [...]

In the real world, cannibal stories never fail to horrify the public. Cannibal killers such as Jeffrey Dahmer or Armin Meiwes captured the imagination of a global audience because they engaged in the horrific act. Considering that cannibalism remains among society’s deepest taboos, it was inevitable and natural that film makers sought to exploit the [...]

Cannibalism has a social stigma attached to it – it is considered a perversion reserved for the psychologically disturbed. The story of Armin Meiwes, the German 41-year old who had his ad answered by Bernd Brandes in 2001 allowing him to eat him, shocked and horrified Germans and captured the attention of the world. Other [...]