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Bobby Jo Long's mother had frequent sex with men in the same room that Bobby Jo slept in, usually in the same bed. Ed Kemper's mother was notorious for locking him in the closet when he was younger when he grew up, he beheaded her, shoved her vocal cords down the garbage disposal, and raped her headless body. Gein twisted this around to justify his sadistic practices of literally making women into vessals, using their skulls and bodies to make bowls and other household items.

Ed Gein's mother was a fanatical Catholic who mentally abused her son and claimed that women were carriers of disease and sin. In looking to the parents for an explanation, the blame usually falls on the mother, who is either too controlling, too distant, too sexually expressive or too sexually repressed. When the children grow up, they do not develop compassion toward other human beings and look at others as flattened-out symbols upon which they should enact their violence. This can lead to isolation, where intense violent fantasies become the primary source of gratification. This harsh method of parenting can create a lack of love between the parent and child and leave the child with no one to trust during his childhood years and later on in life. The "Boston Strangler," Albert DeSalvo, was actually sold into slavery by his abusive alcoholic father. Many serial killers were violently abused when they were young, either sexually, physically, or mentally. While none of these theories will necessarily produce a serial killer, one can examine them, and try to piece together what makes these monsters real.

Some of these theories include severe child abuse, genetics, chemical imbalances, brain injuries, and perceived societal injustices. What causes people to become so psychotic that they must hunt down other human beings for pleasure? There are many different theories as to why serial killers become the way they are, but none can singly explain their behavior.