Editing Serial killer (section)

===Visionary===
Visionary serial killers suffer from [[Psychosis|psychotic]] breaks with reality,<ref name="Bonn2014c">{{cite book|author=Scott Bonn|title=Why We Love Serial Killers: The Curious Appeal of the World's Most Savage Murderers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WUJgBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT108|year=2014|publisher=Skyhorse|isbn=978-1-63220-189-8|pages=108–|access-date=September 1, 2020|archive-date=January 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120053014/https://books.google.com/books?id=WUJgBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT108|url-status=live}}</ref> sometimes believing they are another person or are compelled to murder by entities such as the [[Devil]] or God.{{sfn|Holmes|Holmes|1998|p=62}} The two most common subgroups are "demon mandated" and "God mandated".{{sfn|Bartol|Bartol|2004|p=145}}

[[Herbert Mullin]] believed the American casualties in the [[Vietnam War]] were preventing California from experiencing [[San Andreas Fault#The next .22Big One.22|the Big One]]. As the war wound down, Mullin claimed his father instructed him via [[telepathy]] to raise the number of "human sacrifices to nature" to delay a catastrophic earthquake that would plunge California into the ocean.{{sfn|Ressler|Schachtman|1993|p=146}} [[David Berkowitz]] ("Son of Sam") may also be an example of a visionary serial killer, having claimed a demon transmitted orders through his neighbor's dog and instructed him to commit murder.{{sfn|Schechter|2003|p=291}} Berkowitz later described those claims as a hoax, as originally concluded by psychiatrist David Abrahamsen.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Demons of 'Son of Sam' |date=July 1, 1979 |last=Abrahamsen |first=David |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/139894111 |newspaper=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] |volume=101 |issue=168 |pages=2G, 5G |access-date=February 1, 2018 |archive-date=February 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202190246/http://www.newspapers.com/image/139894111/ |url-status=live }}</ref>