Serial Shooter

In this case study, I will attempt to examine the Random Recreational Violence otherwise known as the serial shooters. The crime spree that had the city of Phoenix living in constant fear. The serial shooters were two people who terrorized the valley by killing random people for the fun of it. This crime only added to the terror Phoenix was feeling because there was another serial killer going on at the time known as the “baseline killer” who thought that the serial shooters had a part in this crime also but was later confirmed that they weren’t involved. In the span of 15 months Phoenix was not the same place. My goal with this case study is to explain in-depth the event that happened, who was involved, and why it happened. I will also look …show more content…
The one I will be discussing was labeled by the media as the Serial Shooter by the media who would perform drive-by shootings on innocent people and animals as their target at random. The killing spree went on over a year before law enforcement detained the shooters in August of 2006. Dale Hausner was a former airport janitor who killed people and animals for sports. He was one of three men who went on a killing spree along with his roommate Sam Dieteman and Dale’s older brother Jeff who also was involved but not considered a part of the major killings. Dale was the main culprit in this case. For a span of about 15 months of drive-by and joyriding, the duo of Hausner and Dieteman would point their shotguns and rifles out the windows of his car and shot 25 people. Eight people were killed and they also stabbed a couple more men and targeted animals such as dogs and horses, killing at least 10 combined. The victims were random people going about everyday life such as riding a bike, walking, or getting off a bus. There was belief that Dave Hausner killing began before he met Dieteman, “According to Dieteman's testimony, the killing spree attributed to the Serial Shooters began …show more content…
General Strain Theory basically “argues that crime is more likely to result when strains, or unpleasant events, are perceived to be unjust. The experience of injustice stimulates negative emotions, such as anger, thereby providing some motivation for criminal acts to either restore justice or to retaliate against the source of perceived injustice (Agnew, 2006; Ambrose, Seabright, & Schminke, 2002).” Dale Hausner suffered a lot of grief in his life. He was married at the young age of 21 to a woman named Karen. Hausner had two kids with his wife but that’s when tragedy hit. His wife was driving with her two sons in the car. She ended up falling asleep at the wheel and the car crashed into a creek. Hausner tried to rescue his sons but was unsuccessful causing them to lose their lives. Hausner eventually “talked about his extreme guilt and said that he battled serious depression”. Hausner world began to fall apart especially with his wife. She claimed that “he’d driven her to the desert, threatened to shoot her.” After that brief stint the marriage ended and in 2005 that’s when the crime spree began. Scheuerman stated in her article about the relationship between crime and injustice concerning the general strain theory “foster the negative emotions of anger, frustration, fear, and depression.”(Scheuerman 2013). Hausner clearly suffered

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