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Original Post Date: 2010-06-12 Time: 05:00:02 Posted By: News Poster
By Muchiri Karanja
Nairobi – The face of Philip Onyancha, a former watchman who says he still has 83 more women to kill, has been in every newspaper and TV channel this week.
But before you start glancing at every watchman suspiciously, there are some things you need to know about serial killers.
The best place to go for a definition of a serial killer is in the US, described by experts as world’s largest producer.
According to available online data, the US accounts for at least 80 per cent of the world’s serial killers.
It is not surprising therefore, that the US Federal Bureau of Investigations has a list of definitions of a serial killer:
Kills a minimum of three to four victims, usually randomly.
Mostly targets total strangers, unlike the average murderer who goes for relatives, friends or foes (Yes, you heard that right, foes: it takes quite sometime to make a foe!).
Rarely does it for money, rather for the show: a deep-seated attraction towards killing.
Go for the vulnerable people such as children, women, prostitutes, helpless people such as the homeless, people seeking assistance etc. These perfectly fit into the serial killer’s intrinsic need to dominate and control victims.
In short, a serial killer and the average murderer are as different as a lion and a tiger — one kills with a well-defined motive and the other for fun.
Just like you can tell the lion by its mane, it is easier to tell an average murderer; but far much difficult to pick out a serial killer from the crowd.
Perfect tiger
To start with, unlike the average murderer, the serial killer will not come after you growling like a lion, rather, he/she is the perfect tiger: perfectly charming outlook, patient and smart.
“…if you intend to avoid the path of a serial killer, your best strategy is to sidestep the charming, the impeccably dressed, polite individuals,” says True TV Crime Library.
He is probably the guy sitting next to you in the church choir, the neighbour who greets you every morning, pats your dog and buys your children sweets.
And just in case you are surprised that Onyancha’s teachers at Kenyatta Mahiga rated him as “bright and promising,” then do not be surprised anymore.
Experts say your average serial killer is no dunce but one with enough IQ to think of himself/herself as a “visionary.”
Some like, American Dr Ted Kaczynski who joined Havard at 16, and became an assistant professor of mathematics at 25, before going on to post 20 bombs to his victims, killing three, and injuring 23, are bright enough to write a manifesto for their killing sprees.
So why do they do it?
The jury is still out on exactly why serial killers strike. But top on the list of their motivation is sex.
Although Onyancha says he never raped his victims, psychologists say lust has never been far from a serial killer’s long list of deep-seated motivations.
“Sex is the primary motive, whether or not the victims are dead, and fantasy plays a big role in the killings,” say Wikipedia.
Sexual motivation makes serial killers go for close-killing: killing their victims at close range, mostly through strangling or knifing them. And the more the violence with which they kill their victims, the more the sexual thrill.
In the US, the “Zodiac Killer,” who has never been caught after he killed four men and three women in California, described killing as more thrilling than sex: “Killing gives me the most thrilling experience, it is better than … a girl”.
With sex, comes a craving for power and dominance; this, mostly by the ones who were abused as children. Experts say serial killers that rape their victims are in reality trying to dominate their prey.
After watching Onyancha calmly escort police officers to places where he hid the bodies, many Kenyans must be asking themselves: Why a security guard?
According to Crime Library, most serial killers admire policemen and soldiers; more so for the power that goes with the two careers.
“They have either attempted to become police themselves but were rejected, worked as security guards or served in the military,” says Crime Library.
Deep inside their warped minds, many serial killers believe they are on some mission, either sanctioned by some imaginary power, like the devil or god, or some prophet, or even their own mothers.
For Onyancha, the orders to kill, he said, were from his high school teacher. But if the experts are to be believed, then the poor teacher may not even know she inspired a killer.
So, could there be another serial killer out there? From the definitions, there are a lot of them out there.
In Kirinyaga, crime busters are struggling to solve a series of killings. So far, seven people have been brutally killed. And the killings have all the markings of serial kills: most victims are women, either living alone or with their children.
But Naivasha, where Onyancha led crime busters to locate the remains of his victims, still evokes the sad memories of Geoffrey Njoroge Matheri, alias Fongo, suspected of killing a number of women after drinking their blood. One of his victims was found buried in his house at Kihoto slums.
He is said to have lured the 17-year-old girl into his house where he held her captive, cut her veins and drained her blood until she died. He is also alleged to have sliced off her tongue and breasts and gouged out her eyes.
Clinical psychologists say a violent society is largely to blame for the rise of serial killers in Kenya.
“Nobody is born that way, we help make them by the way we bring up our children,” says Prof Raphael Wanjohi, a clinical psychologist.
Too much TV, as well as too many unhappy homes, he says, are the perfect breeding grounds for serial killers.
In the west, scholars are still debating whether putting serial killers on the front pages and on prime time TV makes them celebrities, setting up fertile grounds for more serial killers.
Lead the world
Prof Jack Levin of Northeastern University whose lecture Turning killers into celebrities and David Schmid, author of Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture are some of them.
Despite their protestations, Hollywood continues to cash in on serial killers, with a long list of movies like The silence of the lambs, Devil in the white city, Monster and X-files made from their painful exploits. It is not surprising then, that the US continues to lead the world in the number of serial killers.
Some famous serial killers: Source: True TV Crime Library.
Jack The Ripper: Responsible for the murders of prostitutes from the Whitechapel Area of London in 1888, Jack the Ripper’s identity is still unknown. His victims were prostitutes and they were brutally murdered and some of their internal organs surgically removed.
Ed Gein: A famous serial killer who proved to be an inspiration for Thomas Harris for creating the famous character of Hannibal Lecter in “The Silence of the Lambs”. Gein would skin his victims, exhume corpses and then decorate his home with parts of their bodies.
The Zodiac Killer: He was responsible for five known murders in North Carolina in the 1960s. His identity remains unknown. He would target men and women between the ages of 16 and 29.
Charles Manson: This serial killer has re-defined evil. He was the leader of a hippie cult in San Francisco called as “The Family” formed around 1967. Members were mostly men and women who were rebelling against their parents. He convinced them to go on killing rampages to rob the wealthy. They would then write messages in the blood of the victims on the walls of the house.
Ted Bundy: One of the most notorious serial killers in history, he was responsible for the rape and murder of several women between 1974 and 1978. He either raped and then killed them or killed and then raped them.
And there are famous female serial killers:
Mary Ann Cotton: She killed more than 20 people, including her own children and then collected their insurance money.
Marybeth Tinning: She was notorious for having killed nine of her own children by strangling them and taking them to the hospital almost dead.
Nannie Doss: She killed 11 people between 1920 and 1954.
Her victims included her two sisters, mother, grandson, nephew and her four husbands.
Belle Gunness: Born in 1859, her whereabouts still unknown, she was responsible for the killings of more than 20 suitors and all of her children.
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Original date published: 11 June 2010
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