Psychological Profiling Flashcards
Final Exam
Team killers were likely to come in contact with one another as a result of chance meetings.
false
Of all weapons used by team serial murderers _____ was the most common.
firearms
This killer began a 4-month killing rampage that would cover seven states and include at least 18 victims, including children, teenagers, adults, and elderly persons
John Paul Knowles
What was most often the primary catalyst in Underwood’s study of siblicide?
alcohol
Which of the following serial killers is currently serving time on death row in San Quentin, California? He claims that his accomplice was the person who carried out all the killings.
Douglas D. Clark
The study on team killers found that having more than one offender involved in serial killing
did not increase the number of victims per case
This is a transient attraction to corpses rather than a preference for them.
pseudo-necrophilia
Serial killers generally don’t kill strangers.
false
This offender had been married seven times, then decided to try to find the perfect “sex slave.” With the help of his wife, he killed nine females and one male.
Gallego
In one study on team killers it was found that they average _____ victims per case
8 to 12
As of 2014, what percentage of serial killers used guns as their sole means of killing?
46
Among team serial killers which of the following categories is the most common relationship groupings?
husband/wife
This offender, who was part of a team, wrote: “Death is in my pocket and fantasy my goal….the perfect woman is totally controlled; a woman who does exactly what she is told and nothing else.”
Lake
What is the approximate average age of male serial offenders?
late twenties
Which of the following is most likely to occur to male serial killers once they have been apprehended?
prison sentences
Nearly all serial killers are black.
false
Since 1975, among male offenders, which of the following mobility types killed the greatest number of victims per offender?
local
Which of the following statements is true?
Most male offenders killed at least one female victim.
Hickey found that about _____ percent of all serial killers had histories of various psychiatric problems.
26
This female offender was a nurse who became a compliant assistant in Douglas Clark’s efforts to actualize his fantasies of having sexual intercourse with the corpses of murdered girls.
Carol Bundy
Dr. Wayne Lord, former director of the FBI’s child abduction unit, found that of the 3,200 to 4,600 annual occurrences of non-familial child abductions, _____ were by predators who sexually assaulted and/or killed their child victims.
100-150
This offender became known by the media as the “Scorecard Killer.”
Randy Kraft
Regardless of sex, homicide usually involves an offender and a victim who are _____ to each other.
acquainted or related
Which of the following statements is correct regarding victim facilitation in serial murder cases according to Hickey’s research?
Over two-thirds of all victims were generally in the right place at the wrong time.
Operation Police Lure revealed that which lure was most often used by child abductors/molesters?
asking for help
Single-homicide offenders kill _____.
men and women with equal frequency
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which types of abductions accounted for the greatest percentage of children found dead?
stranger
Which of the following is false of female serial killers?
Most never married.
Women who commit multiple murders typically use methods comparable to their male counterparts.
false
Among serial killers who had at least one partner and traveled from state to state, a _____ proportion involved female offenders.
small
Which of the following statements is correct?
Since the turn of the 20th century the number of victims per case killed by female serial offenders has fluctuated.
In one case in which 11 children had been abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered, the government made a deal with the captured killer and paid him $10,000 for each body he had buried in order to recover the victims. The killer produced 10 bodies. When an outraged public became aware of this transaction the government was forced to recover the money.
Clifford Olson
