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Destined for Murder

This is not a common thread about Serial Killers. The questions addressed is, Why did they do it? Was an aberration in their personality or was it “written in the stars”? By picking at Seven serial Killers” Jeffrey Dahmer, Ed Gein, Angelo Buono, Kenneth Bianchi, Albert DeSalvo, John Wayne Gacy, and finally, Theodore Robert Bundy.
They had their bodies probed by medical Doctors and their minds picked apart by Psychiatrists. Writers have analyzed their childhoods and connected every trauma they ever experienced to the later becoming: SERIAL KILLERS. A lot of people endure similar childhood and trauma in their life without becoming murderers. The questions to you are: What made these individuals so horribly different? Could it have simple been their destinies to become Serial Killers? Was it “written in the Stars”?

Honestly, I used to think that way as well, "other people have experienced traumatic things in their life and they don't become serial killers," but maybe some times it's just a perfect combination of genetic makeup, brain imbalances of some sort, personality or personality defects, and life circumstances/environment. I just believe that a lot of different things combined create serial killers, but just as every human being is different I'm sure that their murderous ways were spurred on for different reasons. Funny thing about Dahmer is, while his life was not perfect, it wasn't awful. While his parents argued with each other, they genuinely cared for Jeff (as they referred to him) and provided everything that caring/loving parents provide for their children. Dahmer was never abused. I have several books about Dahmer, including the book written by his father, and the book/graphic novel written by a former high school classmate of his. They're both very interesting.

SireWallFlower makes the valid point in where other people have horrific childhoods and do not turn out to be killers. I have watched a few of those Doc's on Serial Killers... what makes them do it, is it nature vs nurture. I have taken course in college on the human mind, child growth and development, and so on and so on. Now they are study the brains of dead serial killers like Cat Scans to compare to a 'normal' brain. But personally I am apt to believe is as simple as a person decides to kill. By choice and they do it. It's like we are always bent on an is someone does something society deems as 'evil' we have to find out the reason why, like there MUST be something wrong- they MUST be broken, mentally ill when I truly believe so do it simply because the choose to do it. No other reason then they want to do it. And... they do.

It is simply a matter of choice and once the threshold has been breached you can never return to societal normal emotional connections. Your euphoria drives your curiosity and that in turn drives your compulsion to regain the euphoria, yet it is never the same as the first time you feel that last breath escape the physical realm. Knowing the euphoria cannot be repeated causes frustration, desperation and anger, yet the hunger strangles your judgment. Left with only the attempt to repeat what was lost you can only try again.

People's minds work differently, and unless you are in that individual's mind, you may never truly know what drives a person to do the things they do.

There really is no one reason but a serie of things that align in just the right way. Environmental, sociological and psychological disorders all play a part. One of the major factors most profilers will tell you is an extreme lack of empathy and extreme sadist tendencies which manifest at a very early age.

It maybe fair to point out that destiny is generally an outcome of posative design... i.e. someone is destin for greatness. Destiny is also generally something you have a messure of control over.
Fate on the other had is not something within your control and generally is something that happens to you, in that respect fate is probably what best describes a serial killer.