Samantha RangelProfessor Soma de BourbonFYS 156/Technology and SocietyNovember 15, 2013Serial KillerEveryone has heard or read about serial killers at some point in their lives. Serial killers are known to be dangerous psychotic people who enjoy killing. They are not known to be kind to their victims, they are brutal and have no regrets about what they do. One serial killer in particular was very brutal and had a lot of fame around the world. Every time someone hears the name Jack the Ripper, they wince at the thought of knowing what he did. Nowadays they even have shows featuring Jack The Ripper. He is a serial killer widely known for the murder of five women. The police have never identified Jack The Ripper, so no one has any idea who Jack The Ripper is. Jack killed five women, prostitutes, and horribly mutilated them between August 31 and November 9, 1888 in Whitechapel, England (London's East End). Investigators on the case believed Jack may have surgical knowledge because three of the five women had had their internal organs removed. During Jack's murders, hundreds of letters were sent to the police, and many of those letters implied that he was Jack the Ripper or suggested ways to catch the Ripper. The police always ignored those letters because they thought it was a waste of time to read silly letters until one day three letters jumped out of the group. The police believed that Jack The Ripper had written them himself because they contained specific details about how women were killed and also said things like: "Sincerely, Jack The Ripper, don't worry if I say the trade name." (casebook.org/ripper_letters) The three letters were "Dear Boss" (September...... middle of paper...... Most serial killers suffer from OCD, which is an obsessive compulsive disorder which is when you have to have things go a specific way otherwise you think everything is going wrong, then organized serial killers will most likely have this disorder Having multiple personality disorder is when you have two personalities: one is your normal self which very serial killers probably use it to cover up the fact that they are murderers Depression, anxiety and panic attacks are triggered by the kinds of things the serial killer goes through, so the serial killer might get depression from having a non-family loving, anxiety can result from the struggles that the serial killer faces. Panic attacks can result from too much anxiety. Serial killers are dangerous and very sick people wrong because they could be seriously mentally ill.