Zodiac'sPsychological Profile

From R Graysmith's Zodiac 2007 paperback. Profile of a sexual sadist. It's usually a man , less than 35, clever, physically strong, and quite intelligent. He has or has had a passive, mean, or distant father and a dominant mother who gives affection and rejection at odd times. The sexual sadist seeks revenge toward his mother, fantasizes her death, but is perversely in love with her. In most cases he has a few social or sexual affiliations and has never had normal sexual intercourse. Murder is the only successful relationship he can have with a woman. His victims are a substitute for his true aim, his mother, who is often the last victim.He has a past history of animal torture in his young life. He kills his pets as substitutes for humans. It's unknown why sexual and aggressive impulses intermingle early in childhood in these sadistic types and eventually find expression in vicious sexual assaults and sadistic murders. He kills to achieve sexual pleasure. Murder produces a powerful sexual arousal and pleasure and is a replacement for normal sex. Masturbation may exist while reliving these crimes. The sexual sadist often taunts the police in letters, uses deliberate misspellings, and may use handwriting that is different than his normal writing. The pleasure of bating the police may actually become the motive for the slayings and though he takes great pains to appear normal and avoid capture, he often throws suspicion on himself. The sexual sadist has a strong self-mutilation drive. As a child he may play at his own execution and eventually become suicidal. He will become fascinated with the tools of policework and with policemen, and may actually pretend to be one. He is a weapon collector and instruments of torture and has skill in their use. The sadist seeks the dehumanization of his victims into objects that cannot reject him and that he has power over. He is incurable, feels no remorse for the pain he inflicts on others and will more than likely repeat his crimes. He chooses victims with specific characteristics such as students or hitchhikers. He can describe his assaults in great detail. If caught for one murder he takes delight in confessing to many others in an effort to dismay the police. The sexual sadist may be smart enough not to have a history of identifiable mental illness. How come so many around now? These people were perceived by parents as weird because they did things like cutting up animals and putting the parts in the freezer. (to be continued)