Imagine sitting at home, watching the news on your T.V. The first news story that you hear is on the capture of a person who killed a large amount of people at an event. Our first instinct might be to refer to this person as a serial killer. With the given knowledge, we cannot accurately classify this person as a serial killer. A more accurate description would be a mass murderer, or possibly a spree killer. Serial killers, mass murderers, and spree killers share common elements amongst each other. But, there is a clear distinction between the three – motive and timing. A prime example of a serial killer is the notorious twentieth century murderer, Ted Bundy.
Over ¾ of studied mass murderers found that the killers knew the victims(Greene
Over ¾ of studied mass murderers found that the killers knew the victims(Greene