LEVEL 1
-Those who have killed in self-defence, and who do not show traces of psychopathy.
LEVEL 2
-Jealous lovers who committed murder, but—although egocentric or immature—are not psychopaths. E.g. Samuel Collins
LEVEL 3
-Willing companions of killers: aberrant personality, impulse-ridden, with some antisocial traits. E.g. Leslie Van Houten
LEVEL 4
-Those who have killed in self-defence, but had been extremely provocative toward the victim for that to happen.
LEVEL 5
-Traumatized, desperate persons who killed abusive relatives or other people, but who show remorse for their crime[s] and are not psychopaths. E.g. Martha Ann Johnson
LEVEL 6
-Impetuous, hot-headed murderers (yet without marked psychopathic traits). E.g. Robert John Bardo, Coy Wayne Wesbrook, Billy Wayne Sinclair, Daniel Nieto
LEVEL 7
-Highly narcissistic, but not distinctly psychopathic persons—some with a psychotic core—who kill persons next to them, with jealousy as an underlying motive. E.g. Marybeth Tinning, Clara L. Harris, Mark David Chapman, Diana Dial, Michael Owen Perry, Armin Meiwes
LEVEL 8
-Non-psychopathic persons with smouldering rage, and who kill when the rage is ignited. E.g. Charles Whitman
LEVEL 9
-Jealous lovers with marked psychopathic features. E.g. Ron Luff, Betty Broderick
LEVEL 10
-Killers of people “in the way”, such as witnesses. Extremely egocentric, but not distinctly psychopathic. E.g. Susan Smith, Rod Ferrell, John List
LEVEL 11
-Psychopathic killers of people “in the way”, such as close friends or even family members. E.g. Ismael Cisneros, Richard Kuklinski
LEVEL 12
-Power-hungry psychopaths who kill when they are “cornered”. E.g. Joseph Salcedo, Ervil LeBaron
LEVEL 13
-Psychopathic murderers with inadequate, rageful personalities, rage being the reason of their killings. E.g. Ed Gein, Herbert Mullin, Martin Bryant, Yusef Rahman, Latasha Pulliam, Karla Faye Tucker
LEVEL 14
-Ruthlessly self-centered psychopathic schemers who kill to benefit themselves. E.g. Richard Farley, Diane Downs
LEVEL 15
-Psychopathic cold-blooded spree killers or multiple murderers.E.g. Andal Ampatuan, Jr., Andrew Cunanan, Charles Manson, Charles Starkweather, Archie McCafferty, Susan Atkins, Charles “Tex” Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel, Colin Ferguson, Michael McDermott, Dorothea Puente, Aileen Wuornos
LEVEL 16
-Psychopaths committing multiple vicious acts, with repeated acts of extreme violence. E.g. Gwendolyn Graham, Cathy Wood, Karla Homolka, Myra Hindley, Gerald Atkins, Eric Beishline, James McVey, Terry Driver, Theodore Kaczynski, Shoko Asahara, Michael Swango
LEVEL 17
-Sexually perverse serial murderers: rape is the primary motive and the victim is killed to hide evidence. E.g. Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, David Berkowitz, Richard Chase
LEVEL 18
-Psychopathic torture-murderers, where murder is the primary motive, and the victim is killed after a torture that was not prolonged. E.g. Nathan Bar-Jonah, Gary Ridgway, Jerry Brudos, William Heirens, Keith Jesperson
LEVEL 19
-Psychopaths driven to terrorism, subjugation, intimidation, and rape, but who are short of murder.
LEVEL 20
-Psychopathic torture-murderers, where torture is the primary motive, but in persons with distinct psychoses (such as schizophrenia). E.g. Joseph Kallinger
LEVEL 21
-Psychopaths who do not kill their victims, but do subject them to extreme torture.
LEVEL 22
-Psychopathic torture-murderers, where torture is the primary motive. In most cases, the crime has a sexual motivating factor.E.g. Tommy Lynn Sells, John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader, Theresa Knorr, Charles Ng, Leonard Lake, Paul Bernardo, Ian Brady, Gary Heidnik, Jeffrey Dahmer, David Parker Ray, Westley Allan Dodd, George Hodel, Jeffrey Lundgren, Jim Jones, Edmund Kemper, H. H. Holmes, Adolfo Constanzo, John Edward Robinson, Andrei Chikatilo, Judy Neelley, Arroyo Clan
Atz, I think cannibalism might be classified under the category LEVEL 17. That is the category with the sexually deviant serial murderers. And cannibalism, in the context of a criminal offense, is usually done as a sexually deviant act.
"We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?"
-Norman Bates, Psycho (1960)
Atz, I think cannibalism might be classified under the category LEVEL 17. That is the category with the sexually deviant serial murderers. And cannibalism, in the context of a criminal offense, is usually done as a sexually deviant act.
It says that rape is the primary motive and that the victim is murdered to hide evidence?
My view of cannibalism is that it is often more ritual than sexual act and has little or nothing to do with rape.
Well, I guess in my opinion serial sex murderers do more deviant acts to a victim than just rape. I think the term "rape" is just used as a convenient catch-all. Otherwise, it'd have to list all of the numerous paraphilias that serial killers generally have. Cannibalism is a paraphilia, in the criminal offense context.
"We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?"
-Norman Bates, Psycho (1960)
Well, I personally think this guy's most evil list is bullshit!
I would put guys like Brudos at the highest level of evil, same as Starkweather and many others. It appears to me that he's trying as hard as he can to minimize the act of serial murder, or just trying as hard as he can to categorize a subject that can't be put into such a simple context.
Can you really put every person into one certain category? We have debates here all the time on this forum about such things. Multiple people that can't agree with one idea, but yet this one guy has the all defining answer. Bullshit!
"Only tears of sorrow can wash out the stain of shame; only pangs of suffering can blot out the fires of lust." -Lucian Staniak
"this is bullshit!" Well DUH ITS BULLSHIT!!!!!!
That is fucking obvious and MOST of us agree it's bullshit.
I knew it was bullshit the second I saw the show when it first aired.
My view on cannibalism is that despite it being a taboo, it isnt more "evil" then raping, torturing, and killing the victim to begin with.
yea how does being mentally ill make eating an infant any less evil
"One side of me says, 'I'd like to talk to her, date her'. The other side of me says , 'I wonder how her head would look on a stick?" - Edmund Emil Kemper
