Criminal and behavior profiling is a start, but there will always be limitations and gaps in any research involving someone's mind, especially a mind as seemingly complex in nature as that of a serial killer. A lack of guilt, a lack of feeling and sensitivity and the ability to derive joy from the pain and suffering of another is the type of thing that psychologists will probably never be able to fully understand. The next, and most critical step in the field of serial killer profiling may be a behavioral analysis. There are many different types of serial killers out there and only a further evaluation into the brains of different types of killers can even begin to shed a bit of light onto the inner wiring of such dangerous, unpredictable people. While it may be difficult to face the fact that not all killers are psychologically predisposed to being killers, it is the truth in many instances. Only further review...

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