Murder City

Question 1

Who wrote the book “Murder city?”

Answer 1

Dr. Michael Arntfield

Question 2

What city had the greatest ratio of citizens to serial killers between 1959-1984?

Answer 2

London, ON

Question 3

How many serial killers have there been in Canadian crime history?

Answer 3

62

Question 4

How many serial killers did London house?

Answer 4

low as 6 to high as 9, 10-15% of the national average total since confederation

Question 5

How many murders were there during this time?

Answer 5

29

Question 6

How many of these murders were committed by serial killers?

Answer 6

13

Question 7

Who was Russell Johnson?

Answer 7

Serial Killer, nicknamed “the bedroom stalker”

Question 8

Who was Christian Magee?

Answer 8

Serial killer, nickanmed “the mad slasher”

Question 9

Who was Gerald Archer?

Answer 9

Serial killer, nicknamed “the chambermaid slayer.”

Question 10

Who were Gerald Archer’s victims?

Answer 10

Jane Wooley, Edith Authier, Belya Russell

Question 11

Who was Dennis Alsop Sr.?

Answer 11

The hunter of the hunters spent 20 yrs trying to solve london’s rash of homicides, retired in 1979, unsung hero of the book

Question 12

What is a serial killer?

Answer 12

Someone who has murdered on two distinctive occasions and who generally displays certain sexual, ideological, compulsive, and even psychopathic characteristics that can be identified subsequent to that second killing

Question 13

What is a mass murderer?

Answer 13

Someone who has killed three or more people in a single incident, whether in a fixed location or as part of a mobile killing spree

Question 14

What are paraphilias?

Answer 14

Help separate mass murderers and serial killers, they are the experience of intense/dangerous sexual arousal in response to atypical objects, situations and individuals.

Question 15

What is Psychosis?

Answer 15

Is a condition that can be either acute or chronic and amounts to a disorder of the mind or some other cognitive abnormality that presents itself in an obvious or clinical fashion….

Question 16

What is psychopathy?

Answer 16

a clinical or criminal psychopath is an individual who scores 30+ on a standardized test known as the Psychopathic Check List .

Question 17

What is an organized killer?

Answer 17

Associated with psychopathic killers. Plan, and premeditate, are in control, and crimes are well thought out.

Question 18

What is an unorganized killer?

Answer 18

Associated with psychosis. Impulsive, opportunistic, worries about consequences later, if at all.

Question 19

What are processed-focused killers?

Answer 19

Organized, psychopaths sexual sadists whose fantasies are built around extreme, expressive violence and deep-seated paraphilias.

Question 20

What are act-focused killers?

Answer 20

Clinical and efficient. instrumental violence

Question 21

What is an M.O.?

Answer 21

How killers kill, highly unstable, they can evolve/dissolve and change entirely

Question 22

What are signatures?

Answer 22

They are usually limited to sexually motivated and process-focused killers. Signatures are unique and individuating characteristics that are difficult to fake.

Question 23

What are attack paraphilias?

Answer 23

Are indulgences in fantasy enactment that requires violence against others or non-consenting partners in order to complete

Question 24

Why did London, ON become the serial killer capital of the world?

Answer 24

1) The Truscott Hangover
2) Jurisdictional and Communication limitations
- Deficiencies in Police Training and Technologies
3) Misunderstanding of Mental Health and Abuse of the System
- NCR
4) Tipping Point – or – Critical Mass
5) Geography and Demographics
6) The problems with DNA evidence in Canada