Motif mutilasi itu biasanya cuma ada 2 jenis;
- sebagai statement
- sebagai cara untuk menghilangkan jejak/menyingkirkan jenazah korban (body disposal)
Kalau liat video wawancara2 serial killer, ada satu pertanyaan yang bikin mereka bereaksi hampir seragam; pertanyaan tentang kenapa mereka memperlakukan korban dengan ekstrem (dimutilasi, dimakan, dll). Ini reaksi Kemper.
When your childhood is full of abuse, when your older brother is murdered and eaten, and when you're warned not to go out because you can be also eaten, your behavior becomes deviant. Yes, I'm a criminal. I agree. But I am also a victim. -Andrei Chikatilo
We are a society of notoriously unhappy people; lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent. People who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save. (Erich Fromm)