Dr. Killer Network

Though their actions may suggest otherwise, serial killers and cannibal killers often do not murder out of malice. The habits of serial killers are dictated more often out of pleasure they derive from the hunt than out of any animosity towards the prey. Understandably, that explanation is little comfort to those who have had loved [...]

“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 [...]

War is simply an implicit agreement between parties who engage in it to provide a legal basis to murder that would in other contexts be entirely unscrupulous. What is rape, but sexual intercourse made unpardonable by the rejection of it by the victim? In a broad context, consensus appears to be the basis of legality [...]

Psychologists often warn that when understanding the source of psychological anxiety or violent behavior in an individual, the most reliable starting point is their external environment. Analyzing the environment they experienced during their childhood offers explanations for their internal turmoil. Investigating the past certainly goes some ways in understanding the actions of Ukrainian serial killer, [...]

In the history of cinema, few villains have captured the imagation of audiences’ as Hannibal Lecter did in “Silence of the Lambs.” Anthony Hopkins’ chilling portrayal of a cannibalistic serial killer earned him an Oscar, as well as a place in the nightmares of many. A king among cannibal killers, audiences could rest with the [...]