Different Types of Multiple

Killers
Mass Spree Serial
# of victims 4+ 2+ 3+
# of events 1 1 3+
# of locations 1 2+ 3+
Cooling-off period no no yes
Serial killer - commits 3+
murders over an extended
period of time with
cooling-off periods in
between. In between their
crimes, they appear to be
quite normal, a state which
has been called the "mask
of sanity."
Mostly white males with
average intelligence
Avg age is 29.
Usually from unstable home.
Absence of a loving and
nurturing relationship.
Physical ailments or disabilities
(head injuries common).
Triad – Animal Cruelty,
Bedwetting, Pyromania.
Visionary Motive Type- considered
insane or psychotic.
Voices tell them to commit crime (some see
visions). Eg., Son of Sam
Mission-Oriented Type- no psychosis,
but has a need to rid the outside world of
what he considers immoral or unworthy.
Will select a certain group of individuals to
kill (prostitutes, young women, gay men,
etc.) Eg., Pickton
Thrill-Oriented Type- For the fun.
He is very sadistic and kills for
excitement. Eg., Zodiac
 Lust Killer- Sexual killer. Not
psychotic. Kills for the pure turn-on.
The amount of pleasure is dependent
on the amount of torture. The more
heinous the torture, the more
aroused they become. Eg., Dahmer
 Serial killers often keep mementos of their victims.
Souvenirs: Personal items allow the killer to enjoy
the memories of the crime.
A trophy can become something of a shrine

Some keep Polaroids

Dahmer`s Bone Shrine

Common Traits
Top 10 (According to Listverse.com):
 10 – Alcohol and substance abuse
 9 – Psychological abuse during childhood
 8 – Sexually stressful events in childhood
 7 – Bedwetting
 6 – Growing up lonely and isolated
 5 – Fantasies
 4 – Preferring auto-erotic activities
 3 – Voyeurism and fetishism in adulthood
 2 – Acting out fantasies on animals
 1 – Physical injuries (often head trauma)
Henry Lee Lucas
3 years old
Mother forced him to watch her have sex with strangers
Spent 3 days in a coma after mother hit him with a plank
of wood
7 years old
Mother made him go to school dressed like a girl until he
was in the second grade
She beat him when his teacher gave him a pair of shoes
10 Years old
Mother shoots a mule he was given as a present by a
family friend
Murdered mother at age 24. Convicted of 11
murders. Linked with 213.
The MacDonald Triad
Animal Cruelty/Bed Wetting/Pyromania
Secret compulsion seen as the seeds of
greater mayhem.
Animal Cruelty – Dahmer often mutilated
and tortured stray dogs.
Bed-wetting – 60% of serial killers wet their
bed AFTER adolescence.
Pyromania – Destruction is sexually
stimulating. Easy to make leap from
destruction of property to destruction of
human lives.
 Organized vs. Disorganized
FBI has categorized serial killers into two different types:

Organized Disorganized
Intelligent, planned murder Lower intelligence, impulsive,
Kill in one place, dispose in unplanned crimes
another Rarely disposes of a body, or
Lure victims by appealing to covers tracks
their human nature (e.g. Bundy’s
Socially inadequate with few
plaster cast)
Choose a victim to hunt
friends and often have a history
of mental problems
Cover their tracks
DAHMER
Closely follow crimes in the
media
Often has close friends, lovers,
spouses, and children
Victim List of Subject # 1
Victim List of Subject # 1
1) Anna Slesers (55) Died 14th June 1962
2) Mary Mullen (85) Died 28th June 1962
3) Nina Nichols (68) Died 30th June 1962
4) Helen Blake (65) Died 30th June 1962
5) Ida Irga (75) Died 19th August 1962
6) Jane Sullivan (67) Died 20th August 1962
7) Sophie Clark (20) Died 5th December 1962
8) Patricia Bissette (23) Died 31st December 1962
9) Mary Brown (69) Died 9th March 1963
10) Beverley Samans (23) Died 6th May 1963
11) Evelyn Corbin (58) Died 8th September 1963
12) Joann Graff (23) Died 23rd November 1963
13) Mary Sullivan (19) Died 4th January 1964
Method of Subject # 1
Victims all female
Age / race not consistent
Murdered in their own apartments
No forced entry
Victims all raped
Bodies left in obscene positions
Strangled, usually with their own silk stockings
Tied stockings in a bow under their chin
He terrorized Boston for 18 months
Albert De Salvo, Boston Strangler
The Measurer, The Green Man
Various minor crimes
Abusive father
13 victims as the Boston
strangler
Rumored 300+ victims as The
Measurer and The Green Man
Paranoid schizophrenic
Cold blooded killer,
remorseless
 Outcome
While in custody for rape and breaking and
entering, he confessed to also being the Boston
strangler, and murdering 13 women. His wife took
his two children to her homeland of Germany at
the urging of his lawyer. He was never tried as the
Boston strangler, but was given sentences for his
rape and burglary charges that would ensure he
spent the rest of his life in custody. Six years into
those sentences he was stabbed while in the
infirmary and found dead the next morning.
Victim List of Subject # 2
Victim List of Subject # 2
1) Steven Hicks June, 1978
2) Steven Tuomi Sept, 1987
3) James Doxtator January, 1988
4) Richard Guerrero March, 1988
5) Anthony Sears March, 1989
6) Edward Smith     June, 1990
7) Raymond Smith July, 1990
8) Ricky Lee Beeks   July, 1990  
9) Ernest Miller    Sept., 1990
10) David Thomas   Sept., 1990
11) Curtis Straughter  Feb., 1991
12) Errol Lindsey   April, 1991
13) Anthony Hughes  May 24, 1991
14) Konerak Sinthasomphone  May 27, 1991
15) Matt Turner  June 30, 1991
16) Jeremiah Weinberger  July 5, 1991
17) Oliver Lacey  July 12, 1991
18) Joseph Bradehoft  July 19, 1991
Method of Subject # 2
Victims all male
Age / race not consistent
Murdered in killers home
All were homosexual
Victims all raped
Victims were lured to his home for intimate contact
Once there victims were drugged and tortured
Bodies were dismembered
Some body parts were eaten by the killer
Jeffrey Dahmer, Milwaukee
Monster
Various arrests for assault

Devoted parents, happy home life

18 victims confirmed, many more

suspected

Started unusual fascination with

death as a small child

Necrophiliac, cannibal, “experimental

neurosurgeon”

Cold blooded killer, remorseless

Outcome
One of his victims escaped and a neighbour called the
police, who believed Dahmers’ story of the boy being his
lover and released the boy to Dahmers’ custody and his
death. A final victim was lucky enough to escape and this
time the police took notice. He admitted to the murders
and detailed his brutality. He plead guilty and insane but
the jury found him guilty and sane, while he was in prison
one inmate tried to slash Dahmers’ throat unsuccessfully,
the next attack (with an iron bar) was successful in
smashing Dahmers’ skull and killing him.
Victim List of Subject # 3
Victim List of Subject # 3
1) Lonnie Trumbull, 23/6/66 2) Donna Manson, 12/3/74
3) Susan Elaine Rancourt, 17/4/74 4) Kathy Parks, 6/5/74
5) Brenda Baker, 25/5/74 6) Brenda Ball, 1/6/74
7) Georgeann Hawkins, 11/ 6/74 8) Janice Ott, 14/7/74
9) Denise Naslund, 14/7/74 10) Jane Doe, 2/9/74
11) Nancy Wilcox, 2/10/74 12) Melissa Smith, 10/18/74
13) Laura Aimee, 31/10/74 14) Debbie Kent, 8/11/74
15) Caryn Campbell, 1/12/75 16) Julie Cunningham, 15/3/75
17) Denise Oliverson, 4/6/75 18) Melanie Cooley, 15/4/75
19) Lynette Culver, 5/6/75 20) Susan Curtis, 28/6/75
21) Shelley Robertson, 1/7/75 22) Nancy Baird, 4/ 7/75
23) Debbie Smith, ?/2/76 24) Lisa Levy, 15/1/78
25) Margaret Bowman, 15/1/78 26) Kimberly Ann Leach, 9/2/78

Several other victims survived, the actual number is

unknown
Method of Subject # 3
All victims were female
All victims were white and single
All victims were young (late teens)
All had long dark hair, parted in the middle and
looked similar
Usually abducted and found some time later
All victims were seen talking to a man wearing a
cast or sling shortly before their disappearance
Abducted in the evening
Severely beaten about the head
Dumped in woodland
Ted Bundy, Lady Killer
College graduate, law student, politically
ambitious, rape counselor.
Respected and admired by (most) who met him.
Popular with women, generally considered to be
a nice guy.
Chose victims who looked like his ex
girlfriend.
Crimes spanned four states
Escaped from jail to resume his killing spree
Protested his innocence until he was
sentenced to death, when he showed
remorse.
Outcome
Bundy managed to escape detection by pure fluke several
times before finally being caught for attempted kidnapping.
His previous flukes were due to his reputation as an
upstanding citizen, and his charm. After he was imprisoned
for kidnapping, while awaiting extradition to face other
charges he escaped and went on a further killing spree. This
time he was seen trying to abduct a school girl, a few days
later he was arrested again and sentenced to death. Hours
before his execution he gave an interview, where he accepted
responsibility for his crimes and wished to inform the public of
the encouragement he had from pornographic material, saying
it was an addiction that he constantly needed harder and
more until he finally acted his fantasies out.
Quotes…
 Gary Ridgeway: Green River Killer
Body Count:
49 - Proven
71-90+ - Possible

“I`m not a serial rapist, I`m a serial killer."

 Ted Bundy: Campus Killer
Body Count:
35 - Proven
36+ - Possible

“You feel the last bit of breath leaving

their body. You’re looking into their eyes.
A person in that situation is God..."
 John Wayne Gacy: Killer Clown
Body Count:
33 - Proven
34+ - Possible

“I should never have been convicted

of anything more serious than running
a cemetary without a license."
 David Berkowitz: Son of Sam
Body Count:
6 - Proven

“I am deeply hurt by you calling me a

woman hater. I am not. But I am a
monster. I am the ‘Son of Sam’."
Jeffrey Dahmer: The Milwaukee Cannibal
Body Count:
17 - Proven

“After the fear and terror of what I had

done had left…I started it all over again.
From then on it was a craving, a hunger..."
 Peter Sutcliffe: The Yorkshire Ripper
Body Count:
13 - Proven
15 - Possible

“The women I killed were filth-bastard

prostitutes who were littering the streets.
I was just cleaning the place up a bit."
 Edmund Kemper: Co-Ed Killer
Body Count:
10 - Proven

“One side of me says ‘I’d like to talk to her,

date her’. The other side of me says, ‘I
wonder how her head would look on a stick’."
 Aileen Wuornos: Highway Killer
Body Count:
6 - Proven
8+ - Possible

“I robbed them, and I killed them cold as

ice, and I know I would kill another person
because I’ve hated humans for a long time."
 Harold Shipman: Dr. Death
Body Count:
218 - Proven
250 - Possible

"The only thing I did wrong was not having

her cremated. If I had had her cremated
I wouldn't be having all this trouble."
 Andrei Chikatilo: Citizen X
Body Count:
53 - Proven
56 - Possible

“I felt a kind of madness and

ungovernability in perverted sexual
acts. I couldn’t control my actions ."
 Pedro Alonzo Lopez: Monster of the Andes
Body Count:
110 - Proven
350 - Possible

“The moment of death is enthralling and exciting. Only

those who actually kill know what I mean…When I am
released I will feel that moment again.”
“I am the man of the century. No one will forget me.”