Why Do Serial Killers Take Trophies?
Oxygen’s special nine-night event, Serial Killer Week.Some collected body parts like bones, eyeballs, and fingernails (think Ed Kemper and Jeffrey Dahmer). Ed Gein even created lamp shades, corsets, and other furniture out of human flesh. Others, like James Lloyd, collected high heels. Ivan Milat, the Backpack Killer, kept sleeping bags belonging to his victims. But why do killers do it? Well, there are all sorts of theories. First of all, the FBI distinguishes between “souvenirs” and “trophies,” according to “The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers,” a 1996 book by Harold Sc...
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