Fear

Serial killing have been occurring for thousands and thousands of years. A serial killer is defined as a person, can be either male or female, that has committed the crime of killing more than one person. These victims usually have things in common with other victims. They can share the same hair color, other appearances, ethnicity, or gender, these traits that they fixate on their victims, is because of something or someone that has influenced them in a good or bad way.    Due to news and entertainment, serial killers have been brought to great awareness to people. People are feared when it comes to killers, because the fact is, that serial killers do exist. There have been many examples of them in everyones lifetime. In the late 1970s, a man named Richard Chase killed six people. He not only killed them but drank their blood and was a cannibalist. Even before this, during the 1800s,  a cruel old man Albert Fish molested hundreds of children and killed most of them. He tortured them before killing them and then he too ate them. One serious case that effects all of us, is the notorious serial killer of Florida, David Gore. He killed six women, even though he was convicted and he is still waiting on death row, for the last thirty years, he has been lingering in jail. Our society is well aware of serial killers, and that is why they are greatly feared.               Society is traumatized by the fact of serial killings, if someone proved evidence of their being a serial killer everyone would be scared of the thought. During the witch trials, the fact that someone confessed to saying that they had done witchcraft because the devil told them to, is the same as confessing you committed murders because the devil told you to. The reaction of people from the thought of witchcraft is exactly what it should be. Fear, makes people act in different ways, it makes them vulnerable to do anything to get rid of it. The people of Salem hung people convicted of witchcraft to get them removed from society. The government puts serial killers to death row, to instill relief in the society that at least one serial killer is off the streets.  Criminals are usually first looked when a murder occurs. They usually are the ones that have trouble with authority and have a thrill on risks. Persecuting criminals that have been already reported is a first initial reaction. However, just because serial killings have happened and are still happening does not mean that everyone on a daily bases are being persecuted for serial killings. Serial killers generally have psychopathic tendencies and often are very isolated from others so they do not attract attention, those are the people the be cautious of.