Jesse Pomeroy was born in the year 1859 in Boston. His father was a very cruel man who often used to physically abuse his children. Jesse was naked in most of the physical beatings which made him develop a connection of pain with sexuality. Due to this and a host of other reasons Jesse had a terrible childhood. He was considered a loner who preferred solitary activities and did not have any friends. Another peculiar trait of his personality was his stoicalness towards the ferocious acts that he committed. It is therefore he was titled as moral idiot. The repulsive tenure of Jesse serial killing started off at the age of eleven with a four year boy whom he beat to death. After this another boy was lured into the same place who met the same end. In the year 1872, Jesse was apprehended and sent to a reform school. On account of his ‘good behavior’ he was released only after eighteen months. Within a matter of six months he resorted back to his brutal acts. This time it was a boy of four years of age found dead in an extremely miserable condition. A girl of ten years was also reported found missing who after a month’s search was found buried in the cellar of her home. Jesse claimed responsibility of both of these murders. In December 1874 the court sentenced him to death but later on the penalty was relaxed to a solitary confinement. He was held in solitary confinement for forty one years.

William Heirens was born in Chicago in the year 1928. His family faced a lot of financial difficulties in the early days of his life. William had problems in developing heterosexual relationships. It was because of the psychological disorders he went through during his childhood. Another notable personality characteristic of his personality was that he felt exceedingly excited whenever he broke open into others’ lodgings and stole things from there. He was arrested for the first time when he was thirteen years old on the charges of weapon, arson and theft. It was during the investigations that he confessed responsibility or as many as eleven other burglaries. He committed his first murder at the age of sixteen of a woman who woke while William was ransacking her apartment. His notorious killing spree continued for many years from thereon. On one instance after committing a murder he used the lipstick of the victim and chalked the following lines on the wall, “For Heavens sake, catch me before I kill more. I can’t control myself.” In September 1946 he was awarded three life sentences which he continues to serve to date.

Other such adolescent killers include Mary Bell, B.B., W.B. and Gustavo Adolfo. With regards to what one derives after going through such horrific accounts of juvenile serial killers one can easily notice that it largely because of abnormal upbringing, social boycott of the killers, physical abuse during childhood and other such factors that help in developing a serial killer. May we all learn from this and start thinking of developing a society which no longer serves as a breeding place for people like William Heirens, B.B., W.B. and the like.