Response 3 on small print source

In Serial Murder, a book by Robert Dolan, I read a chapter about where serial murderers come from. Dolan says that becoming a serial murderer developes over a period of time, and it usually begins in childhood. Many murderers commit small crimes before they commit murder. In this book Dolan mentions many murderers and tells their stories. One of the murderers is John Wayne Gacy. Gacy committed some sick murders before he was stopped by the police. Later after questioned about what made him do the things he did, he said he killed to gain the power that his father had taken away from him when he was a kid. Also Dolan states that 70 % of all interviewed criminals had a familiar history of abuse(Dolan 27). Also all serial murders suffer from emotional abuse. FBI profiler John Douglas talks about Ed Kemper, a serial murderer, and says that Kemper is " an example of someone not born a serial killer but manufactured as one(Dolan 30)." Douglas says this is because of his mother's abuse towards Kemper when he was a child. Another one on the serial murderers Dolan talks about is Richard Chase. Chase grew up with a schizophrenic mom and he later developed schizophrenia. Dolan believes that people who grow up with abuse and messed up parents later turns to violent crimes.
I believe Dolan's assumptions on serial murderers are very true. Given the facts about parental abuse towards their children, it is clear that children do turn to violent crimes if they are not raised in a healthy enviroment. I strongly believe that parents have a strong influence on their children's lives and the way their children behave. Also when children are exposed to their parents behaviors it tends to rub off on them. So if a parent exposes their child to abusive behaviors their child is going to turn to those behaviors later on in life.