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 30 - Paired Killers
Male and Female
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
Sometimes killing by male-female couples represents an escalation of an adventure that starts with entirely, or at least relatively, harmless activities, as in looking at fringe pornography, sharing fantasies or accounts of earlier experiences, S&M or swinging. In some cases, this could be seen as grooming by the male. The existence of killer couples raises the issue of whether the female derives sexual pleasure from killing or the pleasure comes solely from pleasing the male . In each of the couples described here, the male would appear to be the dominant partner. For Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, it is unclear what set them on his tragic course. For Brady, it was possibly resentment against illegitimacy and social standing. Fred and Rosemary West both came from abusive backgrounds. The case of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka raised the issue of whether Homolka showed evidence of Stockholm Syndrome.
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- Understanding Sexual Serial Killing , pp. 406 - 434Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022