Murder Motives for a specific case - Page 2 - Writers Forum

Talia_Brie · 03-17-2008, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Dan

Not necessarily the parents, but the townspeople did some evil stuff in the past that allowed Pennywise to keep coming back. That is, if I remember correctly. Just go with "Nightmare on Elm Street."

I don't think that's true. He was just evil.

Dan · 03-17-2008, 09:34 AM

From Wikipedia:

1715 – 1716: It awoke.
1740 – 1743: It awoke and started a three-year reign of terror that culminated with the disappearance of over 300 settlers from Derry Township, much like the Roanoke Island mystery.
1769 – 1770: It awoke.
1851: It awoke when a man named John Markson poisoned his family, then committed suicide by eating a white-nightshade mushroom, causing an excruciating death.
1876 – 1879: It awoke, then went back into hibernation after a group of lumberjacks were found murdered near the Kenduskeag.
1904 – 1906: It awoke when a lumberjack named Claude Heroux murdered a number of men in a bar with an axe. Heroux was promptly pursued by a mob of townsfolk and hanged. It returned to hibernation when the Kitchener Ironworks exploded, killing 108 people, 88 of them children engaged in an Easter egg hunt.
1929 – 1930: It awoke when a group of Derry citizens gunned down a group of gangsters known as the Bradley Gang. It returned to hibernation when the Maine Legion of White Decency, a Northern counterpart to the Ku Klux Klan, burned down an Test Page for the SSL/TLS-aware Apache Installation on Web Site army nightclub which was called "The Black Spot".
1957 – 1958: It awoke when several people were murdered in Derry, most well known being George Denbrough. It then met Its match when the Losers forced It to return to an early hibernation when wounded by the young Bill Denbrough in the first Ritual of Chüd.
1984 – 1985: It awoke when three young homophobic bullies beat up a young gay couple, Adrian Mellon and Don Hagarty, throwing Mellon off a bridge (echoing real life events in Maine). It was finally destroyed in the second Ritual of Chüd by the adult Bill Denbrough and Richie Tozier.

Judith Tramayne · 03-31-2008, 04:05 PM

Middle age boys are out innertubing on the river. As they float by a house, they see a man they recognize high on the bank aim his rifle and kill a man innocently fishing. Before they can paddle to shore and alert the police, he turns the rifle towards them and fires two more shots.

He watches dis-passionately as both bodies float into town.

As the bodies are lifted out of the water, two words are written in blood on one of the boy's innertube. High School.

Judith

Wallmaker · 03-31-2008, 04:16 PM

Make your killer smaller in size/ stature so he/she isn't strong enough to take on adults. I keep thinking of Citizen X... ever seen it? It's about Russia's first serial killer. He wasn't that big. He was mild mannered/school teacher type. Couldn't get it up with his controlling wife in bed, so would attack, rape, and kill children, getting his agression out on them.

Swamp Thing · 03-31-2008, 04:24 PM

The kids have been abusing a non-verbal autistic student in their class, taunting, teasing, beating on. Dad has reported to the school administration who have ignored him. Dad has filed criminal complaints, but since son can't talk, D.A. declines to prosecute. He is at wits end.

Then the dad discovers during a Google search that you can actually lobotomize people with an ice pick. Unfortunately his first few attempts are failures . . .

Sam Winchester · 03-31-2008, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Judith Tramayne

Middle age boys are out innertubing on the river. As they float by a house, they see a man they recognize high on the bank aim his rifle and kill a man innocently fishing. Before they can paddle to shore and alert the police, he turns the rifle towards them and fires two more shots.

He watches dis-passionately as both bodies float into town.

As the bodies are lifted out of the water, two words are written in blood on one of the boy's innertube. High School.

Judith

Sounds good but for one thing - what in the hell is 'innertubing'? Because I don't see that word in any dictionary, anywhere.

Sam.

Swamp Thing · 03-31-2008, 04:31 PM

Tubing & - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sam Winchester · 03-31-2008, 04:33 PM

Ah, I see, but it's not all one word, ST.

Sam.

Judith Tramayne · 03-31-2008, 04:37 PM

Yes it should have had a space -- sorry (smile). I love inner tubing down rivers -- very lazy relaxed way to go with the flow.

Judith

Suzip · 04-01-2008, 07:56 AM

Your character is the parent of a child who was bullied physically/mentally and committed suicide/or died from the injuries bullying inflicted on the child, and she/he is out for revenging her/his child.

(sorry if i repeated anything but I was running out of time and unable to read the posts)

smilinghelps · 04-01-2008, 08:49 AM

The middle school kids were all born at the same hospital, delivered by the same doctor...the doctor is actually their father!

In an effort to create "perfect humans" he impregnated a series of his own patients in an experiment. He chose the women specifically because of their beauty, brains, physical excellence, pedigree and a variety of other reasons. He has watched the children grow and has tracked them secretly through their medical records and school events. After they've gone through puberty he's noticed which ones aren't "perfect" so he decides to eliminate them.

Rowan Hart · 04-01-2008, 09:50 PM

The school is about to run out of money. The headteacher knows it, because he embezzeled the funds to pay off loan sharks who leant him cash to pay off huge gambling debts. To his horror, one of the students discovers his secret and blackmails him. desperate, with an authority inspection imminent, he kills the student. It would end there, but the media interest in the school murder begins to generate unexpected revenue - funds he can pay back into the school treasury and keep his secret intact. Another murder generates yet more interest, and more funds. Yet one more, and not only does he have all the money he needs to finance his gambling habbit, but he begins to get a taste for murder...and some of these kids are damn annoying, bringing the schools grade average down...

Just a thought.

Remedy · 04-01-2008, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Swamp Thing

The kids have been abusing a non-verbal autistic student in their class, taunting, teasing, beating on. Dad has reported to the school administration who have ignored him. Dad has filed criminal complaints, but since son can't talk, D.A. declines to prosecute. He is at wits end.

Just a note... If it's picked up that he's autistic (you'd think it would be, since he's nonverbal, but it doesn't always happen), he's not going to be in a regular class at all. Even if he is verbal and functions pretty well, chances are he'll have an aid to help out periodically, just in case.
Sorry for the correction; I'm on the autism spectrum myself, actually (verbal, obviously). We're usually pretty misrepresented. (Not saying from you, just in general. A slightly unrelated word to the wise: from those I know (and I know many), at least 90% of the people on the autism spectrum hate Austim Speaks.)

I think one thing to remember is that motives are rarely all that complicated. The elobrate plots that some movies and shows and even some books would have you believe aren't likely. Greed and passion are the two biggest causes for it.

There's not much to the greed aspect of it, unless he somehow collects insurance from it, but I don't see how he could. Although, if the children were somehow threatening one of his businesses (perhaps a drug dealer or something), he may step in to protect his profit.

Passion though... It could be that the kids remind him of an abusive past (I think someone all ready said that; sorry). It could be that killing them gives him a thrill; there's no rhyme or reason to some of these guys. To be blunt, it could be that killing them gives him a sexual high.

Dan - I might be misunderstanding, but I think Wikipedia's wording is misleading. It was the one who killed George, as well as Adrian. It was also responsible for all the other deaths; there were reports of seeing him around there. It was responsible for the murders and the evil, not the townspeople (although they were the tool which It used sometimes).

winner · 04-02-2008, 03:13 AM

I read of a case where a man went into a mcdonald's hamburgers and shot off a gun at the families.

He was an immigrant, had been unable to get work for quite a long time, was disillusioned with the so called 'american dream'.

During his time here in america he had been looked down upon and treated like dirt by arrogant americans. Their children treated his children like scum.

He didn't feel like a man anymore. He felt he had let his family down. He hated america. He hated americans. He hated american children who had the things he wanted for his own children.

Finally, one sunny Saturday he went to McDonalds and shot and killed the happy families, hating them.

Maybe you can use that.