Talk:"Wild Bill" Hickman
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where is ANY evidence or factual support of the one line claim he was a serial killer? Notsleeping 17:34, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hickman the Serial Killer
The statement currently is that "he was a reputed serial killer" (my emphasis). The link supposed to confirm that doesn't call him any such thing. Further, it describes only two killings for which Hickman was responsible, one "the execution of an enemy spy" during wartime, the second the killing of a man who threatened Hickman's family, for which the charges against Hickman were thrown out. That is NOT a serial killer. To quote from the Wikipedia article on serial killers: Serial killers are people who kill on at least five separate occasions (according to the FBI handbook), taking breaks between murders. The crimes committed are a result of a compulsion that may have roots in the killer's (often dysfunctional) youth and psychopathological disorders, as opposed to those who are motivated by financial gain (e.g., contract killers) or ideological/political motivations (e.g., terrorism, democide).
- Maybe we should say that he is a "self-described" serial killer, since he definitely confessed to more than five murders in his book. Although, I still have a problem with the term "serial killer," even though that would accurately describe his actions. I don't believe his motives were the same as a criminal. Hickman, imo, was caught up in a certain type of religious uber-zeal, which caused him to believe that the things he did was right.KevinM 08:30, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
