Your comment made me want to learn. According to their wiki pages: Ed Gein's mother was said to be a practicing Lutheren. Henry Lee Lucas, no mention of his religion, was beaten into a coma as a child, by his mother. His mother beat him often. (I'd wager, he had brain damage from those beatings.) When he murdered her, according to his wiki, she was beating him. John Wayne Gacy was said to be Catholic. Was often beaten by his father. (Another candidate for child abuse related brain damage.) Jeffrey Dahmer, no religion mentioned. Beyond the murders, they all seem to have a common theme, all had parents with extreme addiction or severe mental illness issues. (Mostly severely mentally ill mothers.) It's possible a couple had severe brain damage from childhood abuse, as well. I'd like to know if any of them had DNA testing to disprove jewish ancestry. Caveat: Never felt the want to know more about serial killers before. For the most part, just plain didn't think much about them. Also, didn't have enough time to read everything on their wiki pages. May have missed other reasons for their obvious insanity/appetites for murder. Edit: they're all jewish according to the list above. (I trust AOU's abilities to name the kikes.) How very deceptive of wiki. Lol, dear diary, today I learned even more about jewish deception. Sigh.