WTM
10-26-2003, 10:11 PM
Excerpted from Murder Most Foul:
¡§The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou Shalt Not Kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.¡¨
- Sigmund Freud
Recessive genes to the front ¡V many early peoples were cannibalistic, just as a means of survival during hard times. Even in ¡¥civilized¡¦ times, incidents such as those at Donner Pass prove that ¡¥civilization¡¦ may be a thin veneer indeed. Looking back at Albert Fish, Ed Gein, Nikolai Dzhurmongaliev, Andrei Chikatilo, Issei Sagawa, Jeffrey Dahmer, and so many others, we do sometimes wonder if somehow the instincts of our primitive ancestors, for whom ¡¥murder¡¦ was certainly commonplace, and ritual mutilation and cannibalism were not unusual, have managed to remain hidden within our own genetics.
After his capture, the child-murderer and cannibal Albert Fish was asked what had caused him to do ¡¥these horrible things¡¦:
"You know," Fish answered, "I never could account for it."19
No one had ever suspected Ed Gein of any such criminal activity ¡V he had often been asked by neighbors to do odd babysitting jobs. And, as if one bonafide cannibal in modern-day Wisconsin weren¡¦t unlikely enough, how about TWO, with the later appearance of Jeffrey Dahmer?
¡§Dahmer tried various seasonings and meat tenderizers to make the human flesh more tasty.¡¨19
Another primitive impulse that may be germane to these killings is the ancient predatory instinct to attack and kill weak, helpless, and/or solitary prey. Could a solitary streetwalker, and an unhealthy female at that, have been seen thus by a predatory Ripper on the prowl? If a solitary victim were unavailable, would such a predatory instinct instead have led him to ¡¥cut out¡¦ a victim from the ¡¥herd¡¦ and isolate her to set up the ¡¥kill¡¦?
Conclusion ¡V if the Ripper were truly an atavistic throwback, a backslider down the scale of evolution, then he would not have hesitated to kill his victims instinctively, possibly as ¡¥prey¡¦, and was probably limited only by time. The mutilations may then have been nothing more than the equivalent actions of a wild predatory beast instinctively disemboweling its kill to get at the nutritious viscera. The subsequent abandoning of the victims where they lay would have then been a natural act for a predator ¡¥at the top of the food chain¡¦, as top predators such as lions are today seen to do the same thing. His other motives for mutilation and leaving of the victims in public could have been as follows:
Mutilation
„h Jack the Bogeyman
„h Jack the Human-being Stalker
Public Display
„h Jack the Practical Man
„h Jack the Bogeyman
„h Jack the Litterbug
SOURCES:
1. Badal, James In the Wake of the Butcher
2. Bloch, Robert Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
3. Crime SuspenStories, The Giggling Killer
EC Publications
4. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Complete Sherlock Holmes
5. Futrelle, Jacques The Thinking Machine
6. Jesse, F. Tennyson Murder and its Motives
7. King, C. Daly The Curious Mr. Tarrant
8. Maples, William Dead Men Do Tell Tales
9. Rumbelow, Donald The Complete Jack the Ripper
10. Ryder, Stephen www.casebook.org
11. Scott, George A History of Torture
12. Sledge, Eugene With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
13. Smithsonian Magazine, The Shadow of a Gunman from World War II
September 1993
14. Spitz. Werner, Medicolegal Investigation of Death, Second
and Fisher, Russell Edition
15. Styron William The Confessions of Nat Turner
16. Sugden, Philip The Complete History of Jack the Ripper
17. Ubelaker, Douglas Bones: A Forensic Detective¡¦s Casebook
18. von Krafft-Ebing, Richard Psychopathia Sexualis
19. http://www.crimelibrary.com
20. http://drugs.uta.edu/drugs.html
21. http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v3n1/ridgway.html
22. http://65.107.211.206/
23. http://www.wcb.vcu.edu/wcb/students/acatasus/files/poecrit.html
24. http://www.daveschultz.com/scum/clinton/bodycount.html
25. http://www.sociology.org/vol003.002/hinch.article.1998.html
26. http://www.psycharts.com/impofthe.htm
27. http://www.stormloader.com/thescorpion/17evil.html
28. http://www.ihr.org/books/ztn.html
29. http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v281n22/ffull/jbk0609-1.html
30. http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf065/sf065p14.htm
¡§The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou Shalt Not Kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.¡¨
- Sigmund Freud
Recessive genes to the front ¡V many early peoples were cannibalistic, just as a means of survival during hard times. Even in ¡¥civilized¡¦ times, incidents such as those at Donner Pass prove that ¡¥civilization¡¦ may be a thin veneer indeed. Looking back at Albert Fish, Ed Gein, Nikolai Dzhurmongaliev, Andrei Chikatilo, Issei Sagawa, Jeffrey Dahmer, and so many others, we do sometimes wonder if somehow the instincts of our primitive ancestors, for whom ¡¥murder¡¦ was certainly commonplace, and ritual mutilation and cannibalism were not unusual, have managed to remain hidden within our own genetics.
After his capture, the child-murderer and cannibal Albert Fish was asked what had caused him to do ¡¥these horrible things¡¦:
"You know," Fish answered, "I never could account for it."19
No one had ever suspected Ed Gein of any such criminal activity ¡V he had often been asked by neighbors to do odd babysitting jobs. And, as if one bonafide cannibal in modern-day Wisconsin weren¡¦t unlikely enough, how about TWO, with the later appearance of Jeffrey Dahmer?
¡§Dahmer tried various seasonings and meat tenderizers to make the human flesh more tasty.¡¨19
Another primitive impulse that may be germane to these killings is the ancient predatory instinct to attack and kill weak, helpless, and/or solitary prey. Could a solitary streetwalker, and an unhealthy female at that, have been seen thus by a predatory Ripper on the prowl? If a solitary victim were unavailable, would such a predatory instinct instead have led him to ¡¥cut out¡¦ a victim from the ¡¥herd¡¦ and isolate her to set up the ¡¥kill¡¦?
Conclusion ¡V if the Ripper were truly an atavistic throwback, a backslider down the scale of evolution, then he would not have hesitated to kill his victims instinctively, possibly as ¡¥prey¡¦, and was probably limited only by time. The mutilations may then have been nothing more than the equivalent actions of a wild predatory beast instinctively disemboweling its kill to get at the nutritious viscera. The subsequent abandoning of the victims where they lay would have then been a natural act for a predator ¡¥at the top of the food chain¡¦, as top predators such as lions are today seen to do the same thing. His other motives for mutilation and leaving of the victims in public could have been as follows:
Mutilation
„h Jack the Bogeyman
„h Jack the Human-being Stalker
Public Display
„h Jack the Practical Man
„h Jack the Bogeyman
„h Jack the Litterbug
SOURCES:
1. Badal, James In the Wake of the Butcher
2. Bloch, Robert Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
3. Crime SuspenStories, The Giggling Killer
EC Publications
4. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Complete Sherlock Holmes
5. Futrelle, Jacques The Thinking Machine
6. Jesse, F. Tennyson Murder and its Motives
7. King, C. Daly The Curious Mr. Tarrant
8. Maples, William Dead Men Do Tell Tales
9. Rumbelow, Donald The Complete Jack the Ripper
10. Ryder, Stephen www.casebook.org
11. Scott, George A History of Torture
12. Sledge, Eugene With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
13. Smithsonian Magazine, The Shadow of a Gunman from World War II
September 1993
14. Spitz. Werner, Medicolegal Investigation of Death, Second
and Fisher, Russell Edition
15. Styron William The Confessions of Nat Turner
16. Sugden, Philip The Complete History of Jack the Ripper
17. Ubelaker, Douglas Bones: A Forensic Detective¡¦s Casebook
18. von Krafft-Ebing, Richard Psychopathia Sexualis
19. http://www.crimelibrary.com
20. http://drugs.uta.edu/drugs.html
21. http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v3n1/ridgway.html
22. http://65.107.211.206/
23. http://www.wcb.vcu.edu/wcb/students/acatasus/files/poecrit.html
24. http://www.daveschultz.com/scum/clinton/bodycount.html
25. http://www.sociology.org/vol003.002/hinch.article.1998.html
26. http://www.psycharts.com/impofthe.htm
27. http://www.stormloader.com/thescorpion/17evil.html
28. http://www.ihr.org/books/ztn.html
29. http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v281n22/ffull/jbk0609-1.html
30. http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf065/sf065p14.htm