For the vast majority of us, the holiday season around Christmas and New Years Eve is a time to have fun, drink, socialise and catch up with close friends and family, but for some unlucky people out there, it can be a time to dwell and remember those that are not around. While those that lose a loved one through ‘conventional’ means are able to grieve and obtain a certain level of closure there will always be the families and friends of people that have simply gone missing – there is no closure, no grieving, no certainty for these people. While we here at Lifetakers wish everybody a happy and safe Christmas and New Years, our hearts go out to those individuals who live with this reality day in and day out. Stay strong, never give up and we hope you see your loved ones again soon.
December 24, 2009
December 13, 2009
The Syndrome Of Decay & Hitler
December 10, 2009
The Syndrome of Decay & Growth
Eric Fromm (1900 – 1980) was a well known personality theorist who was initially part of the Freudian school of thought before breaking away. He suggests that people who are psychologically disturbed may also have the inability to love and fail to establish meaningful unions. He focused the bulk of his attention to three main psychological disorders which he used to put forward his ideas known as the ‘syndrome of decay’ and the ‘syndrome of growth’.
December 7, 2009
Schizophrenia: When The Martians Are Coming…
Schizophrenia is unfortunately one of those mental disorders that suffers from not only distorted media headlines but the affects of popular culture with over 70% of characters on television with said disorder portrayed as being violent with more than one in every five being portrayed as a murderer. Contributions from these sources have helped create the commonly held belief that not only does schizophrenia mean a sufferer has a split personality but that people with this disorder are dangerous. The truth of the matter is, and research supports these facts, that people who suffer from schizophrenia are no more violent than people who do not have the illness.
Full Article: “Schizophrenia: When The Martians Are Coming…”
December 6, 2009
Migration Complete
Hi everyone,
As you may or may not have noticed we had some server issues the last 24 hours. We have recently migrated to a new server running higher versions of some of the languages we use. All went according to plan until we updated our DNS information – but we have now rectified those issues and all our articles are available again.
November 19, 2009
November 14, 2009
Teleportation Achieved!?!?
This has absolutely nothing to do with the purpose of this website but is absolutely amazing – i heard about these experiments a few years ago in one of my university subjects, but to hear they actually achieve it is something entirely different.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – For the first time, scientists have successfully teleported information between two separate atoms in unconnected enclosures a meter apart – a significant milestone in the global quest for practical quantum information processing.
November 13, 2009
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Introduction
The paranoid personality disorder is not only sometimes difficult to diagnose but treatment can be even more troublesome. The main features of this disorder entail the sufferer to be excessively distrustful and suspicious of any and all people with no real justification for why.
November 12, 2009
November 8, 2009
November 6, 2009
Crime Scene Basics – First Responder & Forensics
The various forensic disciplines may run a vast number of tests once evidence has been collected from a crime scene but there is an immense amount of work that needs to be conducted before they get to this stage. This article will focus on those procedures and the job of first responders, whether they are police, paramedics or other emergency services, as well as the roles of crime scene investigators once they are called out.
Full Article: “Crime Scene Basics – First Responder & Forensics”
November 4, 2009
The Lockerbie Tragedy – Flight 103
In 1988 many horrific events occurred but our focus in this article will be on just one of these – a Pan American airlines flight en route from London to New York suddenly broke up in the air at just after 7pm on December 21st while at an altitude of 31,000 feet above Western Scotland. While the vast majority of you may not remember the actual event, one tends to believe that the second the name ‘Lockerbie’ is thrown into the mix the severity and heinous nature of the event may jog a few memories.
November 1, 2009
Identification Through Forensic Testing
In the world of forensics there are an amazingly vast number of tests that can be conducted on a material in order to establish various things that may be useful in a trial. Listed below are just a few of the more commonly used techniques:
August 10, 2009
To Catch A Predator: Riverside, California – Final Part
Over the coming days we will be releasing all the parts of this 2 hour long (roughly) episode from Dateline’s ‘To Catch A Predator III’. In addition to this you will find in our ‘Videos’ section another series of clips from previous sting operations done by this program on NBC, in conjunction with Perverted Justice and the local police agencies.
Full Article: “To Catch A Predator: Riverside, California – Final Part”
August 9, 2009
To Catch A Predator: Riverside, California – Part 8
Over the coming days we will be releasing all the parts of this 2 hour long (roughly) episode from Dateline’s ‘To Catch A Predator III’. In addition to this you will find in our ‘Videos’ section another series of clips from previous sting operations done by this program on NBC, in conjunction with Perverted Justice and the local police agencies.
Full Article: “To Catch A Predator: Riverside, California – Part 8″
August 8, 2009
To Catch A Predator: Riverside, California – Part 7
Over the coming days we will be releasing all the parts of this 2 hour long (roughly) episode from Dateline’s ‘To Catch A Predator III’. In addition to this you will find in our ‘Videos’ section another series of clips from previous sting operations done by this program on NBC, in conjunction with Perverted Justice and the local police agencies.
Full Article: “To Catch A Predator: Riverside, California – Part 7″
August 7, 2009
To Catch A Predator: Riverside, California – Part 6
Over the coming days we will be releasing all the parts of this 2 hour long (roughly) episode from Dateline’s ‘To Catch A Predator III’. In addition to this you will find in our ‘Videos’ section another series of clips from previous sting operations done by this program on NBC, in conjunction with Perverted Justice and the local police agencies.
Full Article: “To Catch A Predator: Riverside, California – Part 6″
August 6, 2009
To Catch A Predator: Riverside, California – Part 5
Over the coming days we will be releasing all the parts of this 2 hour long (roughly) episode from Dateline’s ‘To Catch A Predator III’. In addition to this you will find in our ‘Videos’ section another series of clips from previous sting operations done by this program on NBC, in conjunction with Perverted Justice and the local police agencies.
Full Article: “To Catch A Predator: Riverside, California – Part 5″
August 5, 2009
Joseph ‘The Kimberley Killer’ Schwab
Back in 1987 an individual dubbed ‘The Kimberley Killer’ by the media (due to the location the crimes were being committed) was on the loose murdering people in Western Australia and the Northern Territory’s outback. In total he killed only 5 people but did so more in an extended ’spree killing’ style.
To Catch A Predator: Riverside, California – Part 4
Over the coming days we will be releasing all the parts of this 2 hour long (roughly) episode from Dateline’s ‘To Catch A Predator III’. In addition to this you will find in our ‘Videos’ section another series of clips from previous sting operations done by this program on NBC, in conjunction with Perverted Justice and the local police agencies.
Full Article: “To Catch A Predator: Riverside, California – Part 4″
August 4, 2009
To Catch A Predator: Riverside, California – Part 3
Over the coming days we will be releasing all the parts of this 2 hour long (roughly) episode from Dateline’s ‘To Catch A Predator III’. In addition to this you will find in our ‘Videos’ section another series of clips from previous sting operations done by this program on NBC, in conjunction with Perverted Justice and the local police agencies.
Full Article: “To Catch A Predator: Riverside, California – Part 3″
Body Shape and Gender: Desirability Differences Diagram
I’ve noticed a lot of people being brought to this site courtesy of search terms such as ‘body shape and gender diagrams’ so decided to put these up in the hope they will help. Click on the image for the full scale image. These are courtesy (and in relation to results) from a journal paper written by Zellner, Harner and Adler (1989) and published in the ‘Journal of Abnormal Psychology’ under the title ‘Effects of Eating Abnormalities and Gender on Perceptions of Desirable Body Shape’.
Full Article: “Body Shape and Gender: Desirability Differences Diagram”
August 3, 2009
The Uiryeong Massacre
For a reason that i have been unable to put a finger on, six of the top seventeen cases of murder/mass murder/serial killing have taken place in Asian countries (China, Japan, Korea). This could be due to any number of reasons, the first one that comes to mind is population size, but i’ve not done any research into this so it is simply guess work at the moment.
Informative Links
Over time this list of links will become an excellent, easy to refer to list of all forensic and criminal justice system related organisations, law enforcement agencies and educational resources for people wishing to pursue a career in a certain field of expertise.
To Catch A Predator: Riverside, California – Part 2
Over the coming days we will be releasing all the parts of this 2 hour long (roughly) episode from Dateline’s ‘To Catch A Predator III’. In addition to this you will find in our ‘Videos’ section another series of clips from previous sting operations done by this program on NBC, in conjunction with Perverted Justice and the local police agencies.
Full Article: “To Catch A Predator: Riverside, California – Part 2″