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MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Of Hickey’s 2004 study, nearly _____ percent of the 367 cases (431 offenders)
appeared since 1975.
a. 50%
b. 60%
c. 70%
d. 80%
2. Between 1995 and 2004 the cases of serial murder _____.
a. sharply inclined
b. sharply declined
c. stayed the same as before 1975
d. rose only a little
3. This group is referred to by Quinet as the “_____,” or missing persons who were
never reported as missing and some of whom could easily be victims of serial murder.
a. permanently missing
b. long gone
c. bozzios
d. missing missing
4. The face of serial victimization is changing gradually. Today there are _____.
a. greater number of victims per offender
b. more cases of only female victims
c. a decrease in males being targeted
d. fewer strangers and more family members being targeted
5. Murders represent less than _____ percent of all violent crimes in the United States.
a. 10
b. 25
c. 35
d. 1
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6. Single-homicide offenders kill _____.
a. men and women with equal frequency
b. more men than women
c. more women than men
d. more children than either women or men
7. African Americans are responsible for over ______ percent of homicides.
a. 20
b. 10
c. 5
d. 50
8. African Americans constitute approximately _____ percent of offenders in the 2004
serial murder study.
a. 10
b. 20
c. 30
d. 40
9. Which of the following mobility groups was least common but was responsible for the
greatest average number of victims per offender and the greatest average number of
victims per case?
a. traveling
b. place-specific
c. local
d. semi-local
10. Who first examined victim precipitation in the noted Philadelphia study?
a. Hirschi
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b. McDonald
c. Doerner and Lab
d. Wolfgang
11. Which of the following statements is correct regarding victim facilitation in serial
murder cases according to Hickey’s research?
a. Less than 25 percent of victims were categorized as low facilitation.
b. Most victims were found to be both high and low facilitation.
c. Over two-thirds of all victims were generally in the right place at the wrong time.
d. Most victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
12. Who is at greatest risk of victimization in cases of serial murder?
a. young women
b. young men and young women
c. the elderly
d. young women and children
13. 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.
a. Robert Pickton
b. Clifford Olson
c. Juan Corona
d. Arthur Shawcross
14. 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.
a. 25-35
b. 40-50
c. 100-150
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d. 1000-1500
15. Which of the following classifications describe children who are murdered by their
parent(s) or legal guardians?
a. murdered children
b. disposable children
c. unwanted children
d. discarded children
16. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which types of
abductions accounted for the greatest percentage of children found dead?
a. parental
b. stranger
c. non-parental relatives
d. acquaintance
17. Which of the following statements is correct?
a. The FBI claim that instead of several thousands of children being abducted by
strangers in the U.S. each year, the actual figures are no more than 150 stranger
abductions per year by predators who sexually assault and/or kill their child victims.
b. Evidence now strongly indicates that murders by strangers in the U.S. are on a sharp
rise.
c. Male children being abducted and killed by strangers are at greater risk than female
children.
d. Less than 10 percent of offenders in the author’s research killed one or more children.
18. Regarding missing children in the United States _____ account for the greatest
percentage of children found alive whereas _____ account for the greatest percentage
of children found dead.
a. runaways/parental abductions
b. discarded children/abbreviated abductions
c. runaways/relative abductions
d. runaways/stranger abductions
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19. Nearly 75 percent of child abduction murder victims are killed within _____ hours.
a. 2-3 hours
b. 6-12 hours
c. 24-48 hours
d. 3 days
e. 1 week
20. Of all children who are murdered each year in the United States, which of the
following currently represent the greatest percentage of victims?
a. American Indians
b. Hispanics
c. whites
d. blacks
21. Most missing children are returned home alive or are located. Of the .2 percent not
located or returned home, most were _____.
a. killed
b. taken from the country
c. runaways from institutions
d. sold into slavery
22. Of the 420 serial killers examined in the Hickey study, approximately what percent
killed at least one child?
a. 10
b. 24
c. 40
d. 65
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23. Most serial offenders who are white usually are also lower middle class or middle
class, and their homicides tend to be _____.
a. intraracial
b. interracial
c. of any race
d. of a specific race chosen by the offender
24. What is the primary motive reported by female serial offenders for killing children?
a. thrills
b. revenge
c. sexual gratification
d. monetary gain
25. This was the primary motive for killing children reported by male serial offenders.
a. thrills
b. revenge
c. sexual gratification
d. mental illness
26. Operation Police Lure revealed that which lure was most often used by child
abductors/molesters?
a. offering a ride home in their car
b. offering candy or treats
c. inviting the child to have his/her picture taken
d. asking for help
27. Which of the following was one of the findings of Operation Police Lure?
a. Children ages 10-12 were the most likely targets.
b. Children were approached most frequently between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00
a.m.
c. The most effective lure used by offenders was to offer the child a ride to or from
school.
d. Boys were seldom the primary target.
28. In the case of the Prostitute Murders in California, (2000– 2001), what was the
reason given for the killer to stab the youngest victim nearly 150 times and mutilate her
face?
a. He wanted to make her ugly like all prostitutes he killed.
b. She had cheated him out of drugs.
c. She had cheated him out of money.
d. She laughed at him because he was impotent.
29. This offender became known by the media as the “Scorecard Killer.”
a. John Wayne Gacy
b. Randy Kraft
c. Herb Baumeister
d. Dean Corll
30. Heterosexual serial killers target gay men how often?
a. rarely
b. all the time
c. the same as they target heterosexual men
d. sometimes
TRUE/FALSE
1. In any given year it has been estimated that 100-200 serial killers may be active.
2. Female serial murderers killed for shorter periods than their male counterparts.
3. Serial murderers rarely have distinctive victim-selection criteria, motivations, and
sexual interests.
4. Most serial murderers operate in a specific place or general urbanized area.
5. The percentage of victims killed by local offenders between 1975 and 2004 has
increased noticeably.
COMPLETION
1. Hewitt examined demographic characteristics of victims and offenders in the often–
publicized community of “Middletown, U.S.A.” (_____) and found the victim–offender
relationships to be similar to those in larger cities.
2. We run a greater risk of being a victim of _____ and an even greater risk of being a
victim of other violent crimes than we do of dying at the hands of a serial killer.
3. Another factor influencing victim selection is the degree of _____ and _____ the
offender is able to exert.
4. _____ was also known as “The Killer Clown,” and read passages from the Bible as
he killed his victims.
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5. One of the several aliases of _____ was “Bluebeard.” He was married to at least 18
women and possibly as many as 26.
ESSAY QUESTIONS
1. Discuss why the odds of becoming a victim are minuscule when one considers the
size of the population as a whole.
2. Name and discuss the two early iconic 1970s-1980s child murder cases that brought
the most attention to child murder.
3. List and tell more about the five major missing children agencies.