The Landlady Serial Killers
Introduction We are going to talk about serial killers, and how we can relate them with the main character of the short story The Landlady. We are going to focus mainly on woman killers, but also in serial killers in general. The information of our presentation is based mostly on online sources ...(page) and the text. We will describe some characteristics that have a meaningful influence in the total description of the killers like personality, personal experiences, psychology ,method of killing among others and also we are going to provide the specific part of the short story in which we think this characteristic it’s reflected. When we talk about serial killers we mean a person who has killed more than 3 people, they do not have any kind of relationship with the victim. The methods are not always the same; they tend to change some procedures. After killing a person they wait for a while to catch another victim. This is because they do not want to call the police’s attention, so they wait things to calm down to pick other person. In the text in the text we can see that Billy and The Landlady don’t have any special relationship, they just have met each other and we know that she waited her victims for years. Billy says that the last entry is over two years old and the other one is nearly a year before that, so it tells us about the period she waits to catch a new victim Characteristics 1- Women are more successful than the boys, because they are more careful, precise, methodic, persuasive and manipulative when they commit the murder. They look very normal. Billy described her like the mother of one’s best school-friend welcoming one into the house to stay for the Christmas holiday and they usually have a permanent job in the landlady case she is the owner of the place. a. Kelleher & Kelleher had made a classification between the women who kill alone and the ones who kill with a companion. According to this classification we have that: b. The women who commit a