The Serial Killers: Study in the Psychology of Violence

White, 28 years old. Middle-class. High IQ. And a law student. Yuppie success story?No, the portrait of a serial killer. Ted Bundy, one of the most notorious serial killers of recent years, confessed to killing 23 women. But he was no aberration. Statistics show that most serail killers are young, white, intelligent males.Triggered by either sexual fantasies or a need to inflict pain and fear, their sadistic addiction to frenzied killing is the most horrifying of all crimes. And serial killers are increasing at an alarming rate.But with the formation of the world's first National Centre for the Analysis of Violent Crime in Virginia the methods of tracking these elusive killers have been revolutionised.