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An 1829 illustration of Irish serial killer William Burke murdering Margery Campbell. A serial killer (also called a serial murderer) is a person who murders three or more people, [1] with the killings taking place over a significant period of time in separate events.
An example of a malignant hero serial killer was Richard Angelo, who was called the "angel of death", or angel of mercy. Angelo devised a plan where he would inject the patient with drugs, then rush into the room and attempt to "save" the patient so that he could be a hero to the patient's family. [ 9 ]
The Macdonald triad (also known as the triad of sociopathy or the homicidal triad) is a set of three factors, the presence of any two of which are considered to be predictive of, or associated with, violent tendencies, particularly with relation to serial offenses.
BTK: Confession of a Serial Killer Dennis Rader is better known as the BTK Strangler, an abbreviation short for Bind, Torture, Kill. Rader murdered his victims over the course of decades but wasn ...
The potential crime locations usually contain the characteristics of the limited diversity and the narrow geographical range. Based on the analysis on the locations that the serial offenders adopt to encounter and release their victims, the consistency and the limited diversity involve in these locations across a series of crimes. [1]
Alcala, a convicted serial killer, appeared as a bachelor on an episode of “The Dating Game” in 1978, competing with two other men to win a date with bachelorette Cheryl Bradshaw.
Serial killer - a person who murders three or more people, with the killings taking place over a significant period of time in separate events. Spree killer - someone who commits a criminal act that involves two or more murders in a short time, often in multiple locations.
In the series based on James Patterson’s novels, Aldis Hodge portrays Det. Alex Cross, who spends the first season hunting down Ramsey, a serial killer he finds out is kidnapping victims, then ...