According to FBI criminal profiler Robert K. Ressler, those who abuse animals at a young age lead to human violence later in life (7). This is why we should increase sentences for convicted animal abusers and create a registry for convicted animal abusers. This will help reduce the amount of violence against humans and, when a violent act is committed, should allow the criminal justice system to open leads or strengthen the case against the suspect. Many of the most notorious serial killers began committing violence against animals before moving on to human victims. Jeffery Dahmer, for example, began beheading and dissecting animals at the young age of 10. He bleached the bones of frogs and other animals, nailed carcasses to trees for display, and took decapitated animal heads and mounted them on sticks. He was later convicted of 15 known murders (9). Martin Bryant, who went on a 19-hour killing spree that claimed 35 known victims, was hospitalized during his youth for torturing and molesting animals (8). Kip Kinkel, 15 at the time, walked into his high school cafeteria and opened fire, killing two and wounding 22 others. He boasted that he had blown up cows, frogs, pigs, cats and dogs by placing firecrackers in their mouths. His parents were later found murdered in their garage. “The Boston Strangler” admitted, after killing thirteen women, that when he was younger, he trapped dogs and cats in cages and shot them with arrows until they bled to death. Sixteen-year-old Luke Woodham killed his dog. He wrote a very thorough account of the murder in his diary. He said that "he and a friend had tied his 'beloved' in a plastic bag, taken her into the woods and hit her while listening to her howls. Woodham stated in his diary: "I will never forget the sound of her breaking under my strength...I will