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    Loni Athens' Brutalization Theories and Carignan, the 'Want Ad' Serial Killer

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    In 5 pages this serial killer and his crimes are analyzed within the context of the brutalization theories developed by Loni Athens. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.

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    nickname originated from one of his methods of luring his victims. In terms of criticism of the judicial system, one of the points which is frequently made about Carignans activities  is that he was apprehended and sentenced to death for one of his earlier crimes, but was released due to a legal loophole: it is not known how many lives  would have been saved had this not been the case, since he was suspected of involvement in several other cases besides those of which he was eventually accused. The extent  of forward planning which went into his crimes seemed to have varied; certainly the advertisement for a job vacancy which lured one of his victims shows deliberate premeditation, but in  other instances he appears to have simply taken advantage of happening upon young girls in an appropriate situation. One of his victims, a thirteen-year-old, was hitchhiking, and another was knocked  unconscious from behind whilst she was waiting for a bus.  A physically strong and powerful man, Carignan did not take the trouble to isolate his victims, sometimes targeting women who were travelling in pairs as well as those on  their own. The placing of the want-ad, however, seems to have been an isolated incident: he was more inclined to give his victims a fabricated story about a car breakdown  in order to get them into a situation where they could be overpowered. The rape-murders mostly followed a consistent pattern: he would force his victims to perform sexual acts upon  him, rape them using the handle of a hammer, and then bludgeon them to death with the hammer afterwards. His victims included both strangers, and women with whom he had 

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