Serial killers, so often demonised by the media as monsters and beings of evil, can usually have their destructive ways traced back to their childhoods where they suffered some sort of trauma, and found that they could vent their aggressions on other living things which gave them a feeling of power.
Many of the most vicious and reviled serial killers in history admitted to having tortured and killed animals when they were younger, which became a blueprint for when they grew up and eventually moved onto people.
Many of them were abused and bullied as children, as well as often being socially inept and loners who found it difficult to fight back or to interact with normal people. Killing animals was for many of them a way to express their pain and suffering, and to have that same feeling of power over something else that their abusers or bullies had over them.
Having the power over the life or death of an animal is often where their delusions of having god like powers or being above and beyond most people began as well.
From here these disturbed children grew into dangerous stalkers, who eventually began to prey on people rather than animals to get that same thrill and feeling of having the power over somethings life in their hands.
For many of them growing up in abnormal families or abusive situations, and not being raised by decent parents, there were no repercussions for these type of violent activities, and so to the emergent killers they become almost second nature as a response to something they didn’t like or which made them angry. This is how their patterns often continue until they are caught, with some personal set back or disappointment being the catalyst for them to kill again and again, as that is the response they have become accustomed to.
