Quiz 1.1

Question 1

What are cluster killings?

Answer 1

Murders that typically last from days to months, during which there does not seem to be a cooling-off period

Question 2

What is a Disciple-Type killer?

Answer 2

Someone that commits murder under the influence of, and/or on behalf of, a charismatic leader
(Ex. Charles Manson)

Question 3

What is a disgruntled employee?

Answer 3

Someone that seeks revenge for real or imagined wrongs at the hands of coworkers and/or employers

Question 4

What is a family slayer/family annihilator?

Answer 4

Someone that kills his or her family and commits suicide

Question 5

What is felony murder?

Answer 5

Murder that takes place during another felony
(Ex. bank robbery)

Question 6

What is an ideological mass murderer?

Answer 6

Someone that is able to persuade others to kill themselves or each other
(Ex. cult leaders)

Question 7

What is an institutional mass murderer?

Answer 7

Someone that commits mass murder as an act of obedience/loyalty when ordered by his or her leader

Question 8

What is the intrinsic locus of motives?

Answer 8

Motives that are explained as being something that only an offender can appreciate because they exist entirely in his or her own mind

Question 9

What is a lust murderer?

Answer 9

Someone that becomes sexually involved with his or her victims, often performing post-mortem mutilations

Question 10

What is a mass murderer?

Answer 10

Killings in which several victims are killed within a few moments-hours

Question 11

What is a mini-mass murder?

Answer 11

Few (3-4) victims are killed within a few moments-hours

Question 12

What is Modus Operandi?

Answer 12

The method of committing a crime

Question 13

What is murder?

Answer 13

The illegal taking of another’s life

Question 14

What is a murderer for profit?

Answer 14

Someone that kills in order to profit materially
(Ex. hitmen)

Question 15

What is a murderer for sex?

Answer 15

Someone whose primary goal is to sexually torture, rape, and murder victims
- Rare typology

Question 16

What is a pseudo-commando?

Answer 16

Someone that has an obsession with guns and fantasies of murder

Question 17

What is a psychotic killer?

Answer 17

Someone that suffers from acute or chronic psychosis
- Considered legally insane

Question 18

What is serial murder?

Answer 18

The unlawful killing of 2+ victims by the same offender(s) in separate events

Question 19

Who was Joel Rifkin?

Answer 19

• Serial killer
• Victims: Prostitutes
• Strangulation and Dismemberment
• Caught in traffic stop

Question 20

Who was Andrei Chikatilo?

Answer 20

• Soviet serial killer
• “Rostov Ripper”, “The Werewolf”
• Victims: Children (50+)
• Cannibalism, mutilation, necrophilia, disembowelment
• Adolescent bed-wetter
• Escaped suspicion because of a rare condition in which his blood type can only be measured through a blood sample–semen samples showed a different blood type than what it actually was

Question 21

Who was Charles Whitman?

Answer 21

• Mass Murderer
• Killed his wife and mother before shooting 46 people from the bell tower at University of Texas
• After his death, autopsy revealed he had a brain tumor–this likely explains his extreme change in behavior and the confusion he had from it

Question 22

Who was John List?

Answer 22

• Family Annihilator
• Escaped for 18 years
• Caught by clay model made by a forensic artist that was aired on America’s Most Wanted