This offender was raised in a physically and sexually abusive home where he witnessed
his alcoholic father raping his mother and sisters. He also engaged in sexually abusing
his sisters and eventually ran away from home. He used hammers, knives, and scissors
to kill both young girls and women. Eventually he was apprehended and sent to the
guillotine.
a. Donald Harvey
b. Orville Majors
c. Michael Swango
d. Peter Kurten
Where was the Southside Slayer from?
a. South Detroit
b. Atlanta
c. Los Angeles
d. Seattle
In each of the cases of this killer, the victim’s breasts had been mutilated and cut off
with a knife or piano wire.
a. Charles Manson
b. Robin Gecht
c. John Gacy
d. Josef Mengele
Female serial killers are most likely to be _____.
a. sent to death row/executed
b. given life in prison
c. never apprehended
d. confined to mental hospital
In the 16th century, _____ wrote that violent, wicked men may have the opportunity to
return after death as an animal, usually a wolf.
a. Aristotle
b. Homer
c. Paracelsus
d. Farenheit
Which of the following categories by Holmes and Deburger would be most likely to
have offenders who suffer from some type of psychosis?
a. hedonistic
b. power/control
c. visionary
d. mission oriented
What did Beauregard and Mieczkowski (2012) note in their study of 201 sex offenders?
a. being a stranger to the perpetrator increases the risk of harm
b. being known to the perpetrator increases the risk of harm
c. the victim/offender relationship does not affect harm
d. Offenders only harm women.
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.
a. Eddie Moseley
b. Alton Coleman
c. Robert Hansen
d. John Paul Knowles
Of Hickey’s 2004 study, nearly _____ percent of the 367 cases (431 offenders) appeared
since 1975.
a. 50%
b. 60%
c. 70%
d. 80%
Compared to other serial murder subgroups, team serial killers in the United States
murdered _____ victims.
a. about the same number of
b. many more
c. fewer
d. primarily children as
As children at risk become adolescents, some of them will find themselves engaged in
what Goffman referred to as _____ or places where routine degradation processes are
the norm for stripping away individualism in order for conformity, compliance, and
altruism to flourish.
a. partial institutions
b. state institutions
c. social institutions
d. total institutions
As of 2012, how many states currently impose the death penalty?
a. 23
b. 45
c. 34
d. 50
A general argument posited by feminists regarding serial murder is that women are
usually selected as victims because of their _____.
a. powerlessness
b. sexuality
c. race
d. social class
This killer’s fantasy for greater sexual pleasure led him, on November 26, 1968, to
strangle Jan Whitney, 23 with a postal strap. After killing Whitney, he had sexual
intercourse with the corpse, then cut off the right breast and made an epoxy mold of the
organ. Before dumping her body in the river, he took pictures of the corpse.
a. Edmund Kemper
b. Jerry Brudos
c. Dennis Lynn Rader
d. Charles Ng
In one study on team killers it was found that they average _____ victims per case.
a. 4 to 5
b. 7 to 9
c. 13 to 18
d. 8 to 12
Who first examined victim precipitation in the noted Philadelphia study?
a. Hirschi
b. McDonald
c. Doerner and Lab
d. Wolfgang
Which of the following statements is true?
a. Serial murder in Japan has decreased due to the decrease in sex crimes.
b. Serial murder in Japan has increased due to the increase in sex crimes.
c. As Japan’s pornography industry expands the number of sex crimes has markedly
decreased.
d. As Japan’s pornography industry expands the number of sex crimes has markedly
increased.
This “angel of death” started killing when he/she turned 18 and began working as a
nurse’s aide at Mary Mount Hospital in Laurel County, Kentucky. He/she first killed an
aunt, then committed what he/she referred to as “accidental homicides,” followed by 10
or more patient deaths.
a. Kristen Gilbert
b. Dolores Claiborne
c. Filipina Narciso
d. Donald Harvey
This killer had subpar intelligence, suffered from kryptopyroluria, suffered multiple
head traumas, was raised in a dysfunctional family, experienced sexual and physical
abuse, had homosexual experiences at age 11, had sex with animals, and went on as an
adult to kill female prostitutes. He sometimes returned to the crime scenes days later to
mutilate the corpses and take trophies.
a. Ed Gein
b. Juan Cordoba
c. Joseph Kallinger
d. Arthur Shawcross
Risk-takers such as _____ have appeared to be at greater risk of murder than those who
avoid such lifestyles.
a. prostitutes and hitchhikers
b. gamblers
c. drug-users
d. gypsies, tramps, and thieves
This process occurs when digestive enzymes eat from the body, causing the tissue to
liquefy.
a. putrefaction
b. homeostasis
c. retrogestation
d. rigor mortis
A litmus test for cult organizations is that _____ is/are part of the structure.
a. abuse
b. bake sales
c. secrecy
d. rumors
Which is not part of the “Big Five” theory of personality?
a. neuroticism
b. introversion
c. openness to experiences
d. agreeableness
Among team serial killers in the United States who are non-relatives, which one is the
least likely to be found?
a. male-dominated teams
b. heterosexual teams
c. gay lovers teams
d. female-dominated teams
Which of the following is NOT a fact surrounding serial killers?
a. Some victims are poisoned or shot.
b. Most killers are of average intelligence.
c. They have high mobility in the United States.
d. Most offenders remain in a local area.
This idea is intangible and unmeasurable and is often used as a misnomer for
inappropriate behavior.
a. good
b. insanity
c. guilt
d. evil
Why do hospitals and nursing homes fall prey to healthcare killers, even after they have
been terminated from a previous job?
a. They tend to be charming and good-looking.
b. Their references are seldom checked.
c. Hospital and nursing-home administrators are lazy.
d. The job isn’t that important.
From a judicial point of view, the most serious of murders are those that are capital
cases involving _____, or the willful, intentional killing of another person(s).
a. premeditated murder
b. serial murder
c. unmeditated murder
d. mediated murder
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.”
a. Lucas
b. Coleman
c. Bianchi
d. Lake
African Americans are responsible for over ______ percent of homicides.
a. 20
b. 10
c. 5
d. 50
Which of the following statements is true of the Gorby study?
a. South American, Central American and Middle Eastern countries combined
accounted for the largest percentage of serial killers in his data analysis.
b. Since 1900 the percentage of European cases has declined steadily while just the
opposite is occurring in non-European countries.
c. There were fewer female serial killers in the Gorby study than in the Hickey study.
d. Compared to the Hickey study, there were far fewer cases of serial murder in the
Gorby study where offenders had an accomplice.
The family of this 17th-century killer robbed, murdered, and ate unsuspecting travelers.
a. Sawney Beane
b. Peter Stubb
c. Vlad Tepes
d. Edmund Kemper
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is a true story about the murder of the Clutter family
by whom?
a. Lucas and Toole
b. Coleman and Brown
c. Bianchi and Buono
d. Hickock and Smith
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
Few countries appear to have a problem of certain offenders being defined as
‘superkillers,” meaning offenders who claim outrageous victim counts.
For the offender, the sexual attack in certain serial killings is not an integral part of the
murder, both psychologically and physiologically.
Equivocal death profiling is also referred to as psychological autopsy.
Team killers were likely to come in contact with one another as a result of chance
meetings.
In recent years crime-scene investigators in _____ have been confronted with several
cases of muti-murders.
Dissociative identity disorder is sometimes referred to as the “UFO of psychiatry.”
Problematic to investigating sex crimes, interrogating suspects, understanding
victimization, and punishing and treating those who commit sex crimes is being
able to differentiate between _____ and _____.
Serial killers generally don’t kill strangers.
The FBI’s definition of serial killing is the unlawful killing of _____.
The quest for power and control over the lives of others is exemplified by the case of
_____, a physician and geneticist recruited into the Nazi ranks to direct the processing
of concentration camp prisoners at Birkenau and Auschwitz during World War II.
Succinylcholine, a relatively undetectable drug, is used as an _____ to relax muscles
during surgery.
Offender mobility data indicated that team killers were most likely to remain in local
proximity to their killing sites and least likely to be classified as _____ offenders.
_____, in which several victims are killed within a few moments or hours, seem to be
occurring with greater frequency.
What is bifurcation?
Why are non-related female masterminds in serial-murder relationships so rare?
Having more than one _____ may be an attempt to suppress or deny severe
traumatization as a child.
Discuss the role of mobility in serial killing. Why are so many offenders local?