As he got older he seemed to live in two worlds. Classmates who remember Dominique say he was ridiculed about being homosexual during his teen years, but at the time he never admitted he was gay. He attended Thibodaux High School where he was in the glee club and sang in the chorus. Ronald Dominique spent much of his youth in the small bayou community of Thibodaux, LA. Ronald Joseph Dominique was born January 9, 1964. In as much as Ronald Dominique was a serial murderer he was loved by his family and friends and liked by many in the small community of Bayou Blue, Louisiana where he lived.

The literature on serial killers will be discussed and applied to Ronald’s crimes and his life. I choose to look into this case study considering the fact this was a young man loved by his parents and who seemed a generous person but turned serial killer due to the adversaries surrounding him including the fact he was bullied at school to the point he couldn’t bear any longer and found it difficult to attend school. This study examines a serial killer by name Ronald Dominique who killed at least 23 men in southeast Louisiana between 19.

As a result of this notion, at the present time there are two approaches to using the term ‘serial killer’ one perspective holds that a serial killer is the offender who commits repetitive sequential homicides of any nature (Dietz, 1986 Lane Gregg, 1995 Pallone Henessy, 1994) while another perspective views a serial killer as a sexual murderer who commits repetitive sexual homicides. But as much as the denotation of this term reflected the senses of murders committed by the same perpetrator at different times, the connotation of Ressler’s definition brought up an issue of several motivation where ‘serial’ became a twofold term, which meant a series of killings on the one hand and their sexual nature on the other hand. The term serial killer was coined by Robert Ressler (Ressler Shachtman, 1992,1997) in the 1970s in order to replace the label of stranger killings and in order to reflect the repetitive nature of those murderers.

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