Anna,
Lacking outside personal experiences that I do not know about but knowing much about your life in general I can see the following possibilities to your dream.

The disappearing students are you. The constant moves in your life where you are at one school only to move to another. The image with the teddy bear and the trap may involve a desire for independence from being trapped in constant changes. That would require you to use your positive approach to life to get past the constant moves you have made. There may have been promises of permanency but that has been too often and they all died with the next move your family made {marked the graves of the missing kids}.

The serial killer could fit a couple of possibilities. One could be your father. Killing something is not a literal killing of someone but a 'putting an end' to something, in your life {your dreams are about you. There could be unconscious emotions blaming your father for the constant upheavals in your life making him the serial killer {serial being a continuous pattern}. His being caught may suggest you have realized this pattern of changes in your life, despite the promises otherwise.

Another possibility is the serial killer is you dealing but with a mixture of emotions involving your father and your masculine aspects. The dream gets very involved with specific emotions I won't go into since they probably have a lot to do with personal experiences {I could only guess at what they are}. But the bottom line is how life has evolved in masculine forms with your father being a part of the reason {and to blame} for the negative changes as well as your own inner masculine tendencies of self destruction due to the constant changes. You are the victim but in a lot of ways probably blame yourself for how you feel {making you and your father both the same killer}. There may be aspects of your own developing masculine traits and attitudes that are being affected by your father's behavior patterns.

That does seem to be the pattern in the last part of the dream {shared behavioral patterns of your father}. These would be unconscious aspects associated with developing masculine attitudes {you are a little boy}. There is the 'same evil spirit'. The therapeutic aspect of the dream would be to help kill off this evil possibility {this may also be addressing a desire to end the changing life you have endured with your father throughout your life} before it matures. Unconsciously your psyche is evaluating your developing masculine aspects and determining what to end and what to keep {negatives vs positives with a focus on the negatives}. The experiences you have had have affected your childhood negatively. The 'murdered child' is you and it is masculine attitudes that caused it. Past experiences leave imprinted marks on the psyche and in dealing with your own developing masculine aspects there are these imprinted experiences you have to deal with. Dragging this imprinted masculine aspect through hell will help alleviate all influences of how your father treated you as a child. You do not wish to be a 'child murderer' like your father. As you enter into the next stage of life where you will have your own family there is the unconscious associations to your past experiences. Those experiences are great determiners of how you will evolve as an adult.

I believe the dream is trying to sort through the negatives of your early life in preparation for your future life. Specifically your developing masculine self which needs to find a balance within your total psyche. Without any actual experiences of physical child abuse {which the dream provides images but you say there are none} then the 'burn marks around the baby bed' would be your own psychological fears brought on by past imprinted experiences {with your father}. You don't wish to treat your child in this manner nor be in a relationship with a man who would.

The assessment I provided is complicated but because dreams are therapeutic and do address developing attitudes, and without knowing more specifics of your personal life that the dream might be addressing, it is the best possibility I can see from the dream. There are a lot of frightening images in the dream but without actual experiences in your life that fit with them then I can only assume they are psychological wounds brought on by the constant changes in your early life. Those experiences are damaging since you have not been able to live a normal childhood life. It also can cause unconscious fears for the future to do with developing masculine traits within you as well as future male relationships {you don't want to marry a man like your father}. In that sense it is a positive and fitting with the therapeutic concept of dreams {which many do not believe in as I do}.

Make sense to you?
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