Book contents
- Understanding Sexual Serial Killing
- Understanding Sexual Serial Killing
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I The Factors That Underlie Lust Killing
- Part II Biographical Sketches
- Chapter 13 Similarities and Differences
- Chapter 14 A Focus on Males in the Family
- Chapter 15 A Focus on the (Ex-)Wife
- Chapter 16 A Focus on the Mother
- Chapter 17 A Focus on the Mother
- Chapter 18 A Focus on the Mother
- Chapter 19 A Focus on Revenge
- Chapter 20 Just for Being Gay
- Chapter 21 Fetishes and Partialisms
- Chapter 22 Imprinting on Powerful Events
- Chapter 23 Living in Farmyard Squalor
- Chapter 24 Cross-Dressing
- Chapter 25 Attachment-Linked Killers
- Chapter 26 A Desire for Child Victims
- Chapter 27 Stress and Disorganization
- Chapter 28 Problems with Sexual Potency
- Chapter 29 Paired Killers
- Chapter 30 Paired Killers
- Chapter 31 Drugs and Addiction in Focus
- Chapter 32 More Questions than Answers
- Part III Final Word
- References
- Index
Chapter 24 - Cross-Dressing
from Part II - Biographical Sketches
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2022
- Understanding Sexual Serial Killing
- Understanding Sexual Serial Killing
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I The Factors That Underlie Lust Killing
- Part II Biographical Sketches
- Chapter 13 Similarities and Differences
- Chapter 14 A Focus on Males in the Family
- Chapter 15 A Focus on the (Ex-)Wife
- Chapter 16 A Focus on the Mother
- Chapter 17 A Focus on the Mother
- Chapter 18 A Focus on the Mother
- Chapter 19 A Focus on Revenge
- Chapter 20 Just for Being Gay
- Chapter 21 Fetishes and Partialisms
- Chapter 22 Imprinting on Powerful Events
- Chapter 23 Living in Farmyard Squalor
- Chapter 24 Cross-Dressing
- Chapter 25 Attachment-Linked Killers
- Chapter 26 A Desire for Child Victims
- Chapter 27 Stress and Disorganization
- Chapter 28 Problems with Sexual Potency
- Chapter 29 Paired Killers
- Chapter 30 Paired Killers
- Chapter 31 Drugs and Addiction in Focus
- Chapter 32 More Questions than Answers
- Part III Final Word
- References
- Index
Summary
For some, part of the attraction of lust killing is the opportunity to pose wearing the clothes of their victims. For the two discussed here, this would seem to be a dominant paraphilia. Both men showed evidence suggesting a role of stress in their killing. Commander of the largest military base in Canada, Colonel Russell Williams would seem to be a most unlikely sexual serial killer, particularly since his victims were women under his command. Williams graduated to killing via breaking into homes and stealing pairs of underwear. He built an enormous collection of these, all carefully curated. It is possible that the drug Prednisone played a role in his aberrant trajectory. Dennis Rader appeared similarly to be a respectable family man. There were several early experiences that he recalled (e.g. seeing his mother trapped) which might have played a role in his development.
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- Understanding Sexual Serial Killing , pp. 321 - 338Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022