Quiz 1.1 Flashcards
What are cluster killings?
Murders that typically last from days to months, during which there does not seem to be a cooling-off period
What is a Disciple-Type killer?
Someone that commits murder under the influence of, and/or on behalf of, a charismatic leader
(Ex. Charles Manson)
What is a disgruntled employee?
Someone that seeks revenge for real or imagined wrongs at the hands of coworkers and/or employers
What is a family slayer/family annihilator?
Someone that kills his or her family and commits suicide
What is felony murder?
Murder that takes place during another felony
(Ex. bank robbery)
What is an ideological mass murderer?
Someone that is able to persuade others to kill themselves or each other
(Ex. cult leaders)
What is an institutional mass murderer?
Someone that commits mass murder as an act of obedience/loyalty when ordered by his or her leader
What is the intrinsic locus of motives?
Motives that are explained as being something that only an offender can appreciate because they exist entirely in his or her own mind
What is a lust murderer?
Someone that becomes sexually involved with his or her victims, often performing post-mortem mutilations
What is a mass murderer?
Killings in which several victims are killed within a few moments-hours
What is a mini-mass murder?
Few (3-4) victims are killed within a few moments-hours
What is Modus Operandi?
The method of committing a crime
What is murder?
The illegal taking of another’s life
What is a murderer for profit?
Someone that kills in order to profit materially
(Ex. hitmen)
What is a murderer for sex?
Someone whose primary goal is to sexually torture, rape, and murder victims
- Rare typology
What is a pseudo-commando?
Someone that has an obsession with guns and fantasies of murder
What is a psychotic killer?
Someone that suffers from acute or chronic psychosis
- Considered legally insane
What is serial murder?
The unlawful killing of 2+ victims by the same offender(s) in separate events
Who was Joel Rifkin?
- Serial killer
- Victims: Prostitutes
- Strangulation and Dismemberment
- Caught in traffic stop
Who was Andrei Chikatilo?
- 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
Who was Charles Whitman?
- 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
Who was John List?
- Family Annihilator
- Escaped for 18 years
- Caught by clay model made by a forensic artist that was aired on America’s Most Wanted
