[MENTION=14015]Inari Love[/MENTION]
Serial killers are known for being cold, methodical, hyper-organized, and very detail oriented. "Science of a thousand details" and such. Sounds more like an ISTJ than INTJ to me.
Here's my own pseudo-scientific killer analysis:
WHY TEMPERAMENTS KILL
SJ:
- "I was following orders."
- "I love my country."
- "All my friends do it."
SP:
- "Because it was fun."
- "I wanted to get rich quick."
- "I needed to survive."
NF:
- "I was setting my people free."
- "God told me to kill."
- "I was creating a new style of art."
NT:
- "I felt like I was God. UNLIMITED POWER!!!"
- "I wanted to see what it would be like."
- "I just love to play mind games with the cops!"
intj 5w6 no question. 5s are good at keeping their own secrets and covering up their own tracks, eliminate all traces of a 4 wing and you have yourself a near-emotionless 100% logical being
...I just can't see an SJ getting all bent outta shape and becoming a serial killer that's all...ha ha
What's so logical about being a serial killer?
intj 5w6 no question. 5s are good at keeping their own secrets and covering up their own tracks, eliminate all traces of a 4 wing and you have yourself a near-emotionless 100% logical being
THIS. I also think that the perception serial killers are withdrawn recluses isn't necessarily true, because the more successful ones who've done it for years without being caught were very well integrated in society (obviously some more than others). Ted Bundy was allegedly the perfect son, and he really lead a normal life for the most part, until the last year prior to being caught (the first time). There was this book written by his partner at a suicide hotline that he worked at, and she refused to believe the story for years after his arrest because she could never imagine the Ted who would cry when they lost people to suicide on the phone becoming the Ted who raped, murdered, and mutilated women. Anyway, obviously anyone can be a serial killer and type doesn't determine that, but here are some extroverted serial killers:I’d start with some type of EXXX, I types would make good mass murderers.
From Serial Murder - Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives for Investigators.
Myth: Serial killers are all dysfunctional loners.
The majority of serial killers are not reclusive, social misfits who live alone. They are not monsters and may not appear strange. Many serial killers hide in plain sight within their communities. Serial murderers often have families and homes, are gainfully employed, and appear to be normal members of the community. Because many serial murderers can blend in so effortlessly, they are oftentimes overlooked by law enforcement and the public.
• Robert Yates killed seventeen prostitutes in the Spokane, Washington area, during the 1990s. He was married with five children, lived in a middle class neighborhood, and was a decorated U.S. Army National Guard helicopter pilot. During the time period of the murders, Yates routinely patronized prostitutes, and several of his victims knew each other. Yates buried one of his victims in his yard, beneath his bedroom window. Yates was eventually arrested and pled guilty to thirteen of the murders.
• The Green River Killer, Gary Ridgeway, confessed to killing 48 women over a twenty-year time period in the Seattle, Washington area. He had been married three times and was still married at the time of his arrest. He was employed as a truck painter for thirty-two years. He attended church regularly, read the Bible at home and at work, and talked about religion with co-workers. Ridgeway also frequently picked up prostitutes and had sex with them throughout the time period in which he was killing.
• The BTK killer, Dennis Rader, killed ten victims in and around Wichita, Kansas. He sent sixteen written communications to the news media over a thirty-year period, taunting the police and the public. He was married with two children, was a Boy Scout leader, served honorably in the U.S. Air Force, was employed as a local government official, and was president of his church.
I always thought he was an ENTx, but assumed ENTJ just because I thought he was more focused, but I can also really see the ENTP...his manner of speaking, his ability to adapt, his charisma, his quick reactions...looks like ENTP to me.Ted Bundy was an ENTP, not any type of xxxJ. He was known to be an extrovert who would become despondent in jail if he could not talk to anyone for extended periods of time - it was exactly how interrogators "broke" him when they were investigating the Chi Omega murders in Tallahassee and the murder of Kimberly Leach in Lake City, Florida.
His Leading Process was Extraverted Intuition - Ne - he was a known wisecracker. He was also constantly prospecting for opportunities to murder girls of a certain type. The coed he bludgeoned into unconsciousness (Lisa Levy) after he left the sorority house at FSU was wounded with a piece of firewood he found outside the Greek house. This was a spur-of-the-moment crime.
His Supporting Process was Introverted Thinking - Si - he was a master logician and debater, as many ENTPs are known to be. He loved politics and was active in College Republicans. After dropping out of law school twice, he finally got the legal case of a life time - he got to represent Ted Bundy versus The People of The State of Florida in a death row case. (I juxtaposed that on purpose.) The arrogant scumbag wannabee lawyer finally got to play attorney in court, even shaking his finger at the judge in an unbelievable act of chutzpah after all his other vile acts. https://youtu.be/eR-_S5lBIbU
His Relief Process was Extraverted Feeling - Fe - Bundy was a notorious smooth talker. His favorite ploy for hooking victims was to wear a cast and pretend to struggle with a heavy stack of library books. In addition to this very sinister use of his Fe abilities, he hoodwinked his landlady into giving him extensions on rent so he could use his money to purchase ski equipment for ski trips, he talked some needy sap into marrying him and bearing his demon child while he was on death row, and somehow involved an Oregon Republican politician in his escape from Death Row in Utah that is still under a cloud of suspicion to this day. (To be politically fair, serial killer John Wayne Gacy had his photo taken with Democratic First Lady Rosalynn Carter at just about the same time.)
His Aspirational Process was Introverted Sensing - Si - like most serial killers, Bundy loved to recall his crimes in vivid detail and relive those moments. (Warning: very graphic description: https://youtu.be/i_sPUOoS4LI )
So there you have it: an extrovert with the classic cognitive functions that match with the ENTP personality. Ted Bundy was ENTP.
Anyway, obviously anyone can be a serial killer and type doesn't determine that, but here are some extroverted serial killers:
Aileen Wuornos - ESFP
Susan Atkins - ESFP
Karla Homolka - ENFP
Charles Manson - ENFP
Gerard John Schaefer - ESTP
Richard Ramirez - ENTP
John Wayne Gacy - ENTJ
H.H. Holmes - ENTJ
It's also kind of funny that people view INTJs as robotic. They're one of the more emotional NT types.