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The Carr brothers were from Dodge City, Kansas.Reginald Dexter Carr Jr., was born on November 14, 1977. Jonathan Daniel Carr was born on March 30, 1980. At the time of the Wichita Massacre, both 23-year-old Reginald and 20-year-old Jonathan had lengthy criminal records.
In Serial Murder, Ronald M. Holmes and Stephen T. Holmes defines spree murder as "the killing of three or more people within a 30-day period" and add that killing sprees are "usually accompanied by the commission of another felony." [10] They cite Charles Starkweather and the Beltway Snipers as examples of spree killers. [11]
Nicholas Troy Sheley (born July 31, 1979 [2]) is an American spree killer. He is serving life in prison for six murders for Illinois and two other murders in Missouri. He was arrested on July 1, 2008, in Granite City, Illinois. A $25,000 reward was offered for information leading to his arrest.
Gary Lee Sampson (September 29, 1959 – December 21, 2021) was an American bank robber and later spree killer who killed three people and was sentenced to death by a federal jury in Massachusetts. During three days in 2001, Sampson killed three strangers – retiree Philip McCloskey in Marshfield, Massachusetts , college student Jonathan Rizzo ...
A Norwegian mass murderer has won part of a human-rights case against the government. Anders Behring Breivik, a right-wing extremist who was responsible for the deaths of 77 people in Norway in ...
Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 – December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence via stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966.
This is a list of mass or spree killers in the United States. A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills three or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period, not including themselves. [1] [2] A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more persons kill several others. [3] [4] [5]
In August 2006, a jury found Gray guilty on five capital murder charges after four days of trial and 30 minutes of deliberation. [16] The jury recommended that Gray receive the death penalty for the murders of Stella and Ruby Harvey, and life in prison for the three remaining charges. [19] On October 23, 2006, Gray was sentenced to death. [20]