Maniacs are, unfortunately, a phenomenon that occurs in our lives. Their phenomenon remains a mystery both for psychology and forensic science. What makes a person (sometimes with a seemingly absolutely normal) commit crimes, guided by one understandable logic? Scientists, astrologers, parapsychologists are trying to find the answer to this question …
According to the doctor of medical sciences, professor of the Department of Psychiatry and Narcology of the Rostov State Medical University Alexander Bukhanovsky, the "authors" of the most bloody crimes sometimes act as if under hypnosis.
Here are the lines from the diary of the Rostov strangler Vladimir Mukhankin, on whose account there are eight victims: “A woman in white was leading me. Then I saw another woman. The first one ordered: you must give us "this one." I understood what these words mean. And I strangled …"
Rave? But the forensic medical examination showed that Mukhankin is quite sane. Anatoly Sliv-ko, a school pedophile teacher from Stavropol, who tortured and killed seven boys, was also recognized as normal.
“They said that if you look a child in the eyes for a long time, you can see how the soul leaves the body,” Slivko said during the trial. True, who the mysterious "they" are, he did not specify.
Recently, the body of three-year-old Gulnara Vinnikova was found in a forest near the village of Strelchikha, Tver Region. She was strangled by her own mother. 30-year-old Tatiana Vinnikova and her daughter arrived in the village from Kimry. I asked a local woman how to get to the forest. When asked why she went there, she replied: "I must, the voices are leading me." Subsequently, Tatyana quickly confessed to the murder, showed the place on the forest edge, where she left the girl's corpse.
It turned out that the child killer had previously worked as a nurse in a Kimry special school, from where she went on maternity leave. Colleagues knew her as a calm and balanced woman. Although Tatiana raised the baby alone, without a husband, the family was considered prosperous. The woman has never been on a psychiatric account. After the arrest, she behaved completely unperturbed, however, she told the investigator about the "hole in the forest", about some "parallel worlds" … She was sent for a psychiatric examination.
In New York, on the eve of Halloween, 28-year-old Gilberto Balle was arrested, who was planning … to eat 100 women by roasting them in the oven. Ironically, Valle served in the police force. Using his official position, he compiled a list of potential victims.
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Gilberto was betrayed by his own wife. Accidentally looking into her husband's computer, she discovered his correspondence with an accomplice, with whom he discussed plans to kill women. “Cook her over low heat, keep her alive as long as possible,” wrote the potential cannibal.
The woman immediately contacted the FBI. Federal agents confiscated Valle's computer and actually found data on the women he was about to kill. Vallee also had three accomplices with whom he shared his “gastronomic” plans. Once they set up surveillance of one of the victims, using a police car for this.
True, it seems that Valle and his "associates" did not manage to commit a single crime. By the way, after interviewing a dozen women from the list, the FBI agents found out that they all knew the potential killer.
Ufologists suggest that ordinary people can be turned into maniacs … by aliens. They need human bodies for research. To get the "material", they find "executors" - people with an unstable psyche, who are taught that they must kill this or that victim. Or they experiment on the maniacs themselves. That is, they choose people and turn them into maniacs in order to check how suggestible they are …
By the way, with the same success over the maniacs can "swagger" and "neighbors on the planet." Maybe these are secret experiments of the special services or individual obsessed scientists?
Horoscopes can intersect
We can also talk about the instillation of some entities into people. According to parapsychologists, electrical devices literally go wild in the presence of serial killers. This is a sign of an abnormal energy field. When a priest was summoned to the “Bitsevsky maniac” Pichushkin, who had killed 48 people, he thrashed in a seizure, his body was convulsed …
In turn, the Moscow astrologer and psychologist Pavel Sviridov discovered that the astrological charts of maniacs have a lot in common. In addition, the horoscopes of the murderers and their victims have certain "intersection points", and the moments of the birth of both are incomprehensibly connected. The astrologer believes that the whole thing is in a karmic connection: for example, a maniac acts as an instrument of retribution for an act committed by a victim in one of his past lives.
“Serial murders are like a program embedded in a person’s life path at the moment of his birth,” Sviridov says. - Until the maniac implements this program, it is impossible to understand him.
Mission Chikatilo
There is another interesting fact: many serial killers have so-called periods of activity when they are most likely to commit crimes. Recently, American scientists compiled a model of the behavior of the most famous Soviet maniac Andrei Chikatilo and came to the conclusion that it fits well into the framework of certain mathematical functions.
Mikhail Simkin and Vwani Roychowdhuri from California State University in Los Angeles drew attention to the fact that the maniac killed his victims at specific intervals. As it turned out, the periods of his criminal activity fit well into the well-known mathematical function called the "devil's ladder." Her graph really looks like a staircase with unequal steps in length, the height of which gradually increases as you move from zero to one. The number of murders committed by Chikatilo grew, and the time intervals between them decreased, in accordance with the principles of the function. Undoubtedly, this was due to pathological changes in the criminal's brain.
The authors of the study suggested that a special group of nerve cells was present in the brain of Chikatilo, responsible for the desire to commit murder. Gradually, neurons increased their activity, and when it reached a certain critical limit, the maniac went in search of another victim. After the murder was committed, the activity of nerve cells dropped for a while, but then began to grow again.
Medical examinations for risk groups
Scientists have developed a computer model that simulates the cycles of activity of "killer" cells. Having built a graph of fluctuations in the supposed activity of neurons over 12 "virtual" years, they compared it with the real time of the murders. It turned out that the mathematical model and the "schedule" of murders in real life practically coincided.
However, according to Simkin and Roychowdhuri, the results can be predicted more accurately if we take into account the factor of "success" of murders. The thing is. that if the intended murder failed, the maniac usually looks for a new victim on the same or the next day, and if everything goes “successfully”, then for a while “dies down”.
Also, according to the model built by mathematicians, after a recently committed murder, the chances of a repeat of the atrocity will be significantly higher than after a long break between crimes. The same is observed when tracking Chikatilo's crimes.
Undoubtedly, this kind of model can be applied to other serial killers. After all, any maniac, regardless of whether he is recognized as sane, suffers from mental pathology, since the motives of the murders he commits do not lend themselves to normal human logic.
Perhaps over time, science will be able to prevent serial murders by examining the brain activity of potential maniacs. True, to get into the field of vision of scientists, first a person must commit a crime. However, it is possible that the pathological activity of brain neurons will be detected during a routine examination, which will be subject to all without fail - a kind of "prophylactic examination". Although it is not clear what to do then with potential maniacs - to keep them locked up? However, such "prevention" is still a utopia.
Ida SHAKHOVSKAYA
"Secrets of the 20th century" January 2013