I’m a criminologist – I’ve gone eye to eye with world’s most evil serial killers, 3 traits I’ve noticed they all share
SERIAL killers all share the same three traits, according to a leading criminologist who has gone eye-to-eye with the worst the world has to offer.
Investigative criminologist and the world's leading true crime author Christopher Berry Dee has published a number of books giving insight into serial killers.
Christopher Berry-Dee has shared what he has learned from going face-to-face with serial killers
Michael Ross boasted about his depraved crimes when being interviewed by Berry Dee
Ted Bundy was 'cocky' and 'thought he could outwit everybody'
The former Royal Marine "Green Beret" Commando has sat face-to-face with the most notorious killers to see what makes them tick.
Berry Dee has spent years cultivating a relationship with a number of killers via correspondence in order to find out more about them.
He exclusively told The U.S. Sun: “It takes years to get to know the person's likes and dislikes so you know what buttons to push and not to push.
The author has found himself locked in a cubicle with unshackled "evil" as he interviewed The Hillside Strangler Kenneth Bianchi without guards.
He also spoke to Michael Ross who murdered eight women and girls between the ages of 14 and 25 in the early 1980s in New York and Connecticut.
Ross raped seven out of his eight victims and is claimed to have raped two other women who he did not kill.
When asked how interviews with such evil people impact him, Berry Dee said: "I don’t feel anything at all because I can’t allow myself to feel emotional because they’re in the emotional game.
They can be threatening, they can be compliant, they can be contrite, that doesn’t worry me…I can play their game
He explained: "Michael Ross told me the most terrible things on camera because he was trying to make himself look better than he was and he giggled.
“He raped these two little girls after he strangled them and he giggled and he thought it was funny.
"One of the guards in the room broke down and he had to go outside.
"He had a little child and he couldn’t bare what this man was saying."
He added: "But no, I’m an ex-marine and I switch off…It’s like looking at something under a microscope to see how it works.”
The first trait he noticed that the killers all share are that they are “absolutely driven by ego.”
This is largely reflected in the way that Ross performed for the cameras.
Similarly, Ted Bundy had a huge ego which saw him sack his legal team and choose to represent himself.
"He thought he could outwit everybody," the former marine said.
He discussed how Bundy's ego was part of his downfall and added that he could have avoided the electric chair by making a plea bargain agreement.
Berry Dee said: "I’ll tell you how cocky he was. They wanted to match his teeth to the bite mark on Lisa Levy’s buttocks and they wanted to take impressions of his teeth.
"The police couldn’t say to him we want to take dental impressions to match the bite marks, so what they did was very cunning.
They turned around and said ‘look Ted you’re going to be in front of television cameras and you’re going to be famous and we want you to look as smart as possible so we’re going to get your teeth fixed’ and Ted lapped that up.
"He was going to be a star and be famous. They did their homework.”
The casts of Bundy's teeth matched the marks on Levy's buttock and were a key piece of evidence that led to his conviction.
He added that if you send a letter to any serial killer showing some kind of interest: “They bite straight away."
The criminologist added: "You have to remember that they’re just a number in the prison system and they’re told what to do 24 hours a day and when someone shows the slightest amount of professional interest, they can’t help themselves and they’re pathologically helpless.
"You can do what you want with them in the end."
While they may be reduced to just a number in prison, Chris explained that some show absolutely no remorse and boast about their achievements.
The author is currently finalizing his latest book 'Letters from Serial Killers' which he said is "not a bedtime read" as parts of it show the lack of rehabilitation and sense of self-importance these people have.
Serial Killer Harvey Carignan died earlier this month and Berry Dee told The U.S. Sun: "Point of fact, even my old alleged 'friend' the Hammer Carignan, and many more of his disgusting ilk, corresponded with me over the years, giving me the whole nine-yards on their kills, rapes, and torture."
The second trait they all share is that they are incredibly lonely people.
Berry Dee explained how serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer, and hopefuls like Chance Seneca "seem to group together as a sort of herd instinct.
"They feed off each other; they’re a lonely group they don’t communicate with anyone outside of it."
This means they tend to fall in with like-minded people or like Seneca, become infatuated with killers and plan a copycat killing.
He noted that a number of the killers he has encountered have terrible social skills, and this loneliness can then turn into a point of connection with potential victims or hatred for certain individuals or groups.
This is the third trait that can be associated with the majority of serial killers.
The criminologist explained how killers such as Bundy and Kenneth Bianchi only targeted the same victims - women and girls.
He said that Bundy "hated women with a passion [and] that’s echoed by the overkill, the smashing in of the head.
"This is the same with a lot of killing there is utter deep
hatred inside for some reason and they take out all of this frustration on one person."
Similarly, Dahmer and Seneca targeted gay men, and other killers such as Douglas Clark The Sunset Slayer have targeted sex workers.
The author noted that a number of female killers "kill for monetary reasons" instead of sexual reasons as "men do."
Aileen Wuornos was "street-wise" and became a prostitute to support herself and her "lesbian lover who she adored and would do anything for," Berry Dee explained.
Wuornos killed seven men while 200 male clients, a number of them married, were happy to go to court and say that she treated them well.
Berry Dee assessed the seven men who were murdered and concluded: "Well of course they started to beat her up, abuse her, or not pay her and she was a feisty kid and she pulled out a gun and shot them."
Unlike the male serial killers noted by Berry Dee, Wuornos did not have a hatred for a specific group of people that drove her to kill.
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