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FORSCI FINAL
Specific Serial Killers
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Intelligent, college educated, handsome man who faked injuries and impersonated police officers to gain access to his victims | Ted Bundy |
| His criminal activity began as a peeping Tom and as a shoplifter | Ted Bundy |
| While at the University of Washington, he worked for a suicide hotline w/ writer Anne Rule | Ted Bundy |
| Anne Rule wrote "A Stranger Beside Me" about... | Ted Bundy |
| Majority of his victims were young women w/ blonde/light brown hair parted in the middle | Ted Bundy |
| Many victims were stabbed, raped, tortured, and had been strangled w/ panty hose. He desecrated and dismembered them. | Ted Bundy |
| Ted Bundy confessed to killing 23 women, but the official toll is closer to.... | 100 |
| Evidence from Ted Bundy's victims at FSU that sealed his fate. | Bite Marks |
| Was put to death in Florida's electric chair in 1989 | Ted Bundy |
| A successful contractor and pillar of his community | John Wayne Gacy |
| Arrested for the murder of more than 30 young boys | John Wayne Gacy |
| Boys were sodomized and strangled. They were tricked into being handcuffed by him. | John Wayne Gacy |
| Buried 28 of his victims in the crawl space under his home | John Wayne Gacy |
| He was put to death by lethal injection on May 10, 1994 | John Wayne Gacy |
| He was calm, cool, and collected. | Jeffrey Dahmer |
| He invited young boys to his apartment to drink and take pictures | Jeffrey Dahmer |
| Killed at least 17 people by inviting them to his apartment, and then drugging, strangling and dismembering them. | Jeffrey Dahmer |
| He cannibalized some of his victims as well. | Jeffrey Dahmer |
| A prison inmate killed him | Jeffrey Dahmer |
| The Night Stalker | Richard Ramirez |
| Avowed devil worshipper | Richard Ramirez |
| Randomly raped and murdered his victims in their homes | Richard Ramirez |
| Most of Ramirez's victims lived near..... | Freeways |
| Killed 1 of his victim's, beat and raped the man's wife, and then raped the couple's 8 year-old son. | Richard Ramirez |
| In 8th grade sniffed glue and smoked pot. When he started killing he moved to shooting cocaine. | Richard Ramirez |
| Captured after a fingerprint lifted fro a stolen car was linked to the Night Stalker. | Richard Ramirez |
| California's fingerprint database had been up and running for only 3 minutes when he was discovered | Richard Ramirez |
| His picture was run in newspapers nationwide. Was spotted in LA. | Richard Ramirez |
| Ran 2 miles and was beaten by a group of people until cops showed up | Richard Ramirez |
| Green River Killer | Gary Ridgway |
| Murdered scores of women in the Seattle area. | Gary Ridgway |
| The longest running homicide investigation in U.S. history... | Green River Killer |
| Pled guilty to murdering 48 teenage runaways and prostitutes who he had strangled and dumped into the Green River in Washington. | Gary Ridgway |
| Arrested in 2001 after DNA and paint evidence linked him with the crimes. | Gary Ridgway |
| Evidence collected in 1987 (saliva and hair) was used as evidence to obtain the arrest warrant. | Gary Ridgway |
| Passed the polygraph test years before he was apprehended | Gary Ridgway |
| BTK stands for? | Blind, Torture, Kill |
| Who is BTK? | Dennis Rader |
| Murdered victims in 25 year crime spree in Wichita Kansas. | Dennis Rader |
| Apprehended after DNA evidence collected at a crime scene was tested against DNA collected from his daughter | Dennis Rader |
| Married w/ 2 children, Boy Scout Leader, a compliance officer in charge of animal control | Dennis Rader |
| Psychopath who morphed into a serial killer, who easily maintained a family life while committing these heinous murders | Dennis Rader |
| Didn't show a lot of affection or emotion | Dennis Rader |
| Monster | Aileen Wuornos |
| A female Prostitute that killed at least 6 men on the roads of Florida. | Aileen Wuornos |
| Was the subject of the film "Monster" | Aileen Wuornos |
| Pawned a camera and radar detector belonging to a victim and left a required thumb print on the receipt. The thumb print matched to an alias | Aileen Wuornos |
| Killers bloody palm print found on vehicle of their victim | Aileen Wuornos |
| Claimed to have killed each victim in self defense | Aileen Wuornos |
| Due to "Williams Rule" information regarding other murders was presented to the jury, showing pattern to the murders committed. | Aileen Wuornos |
| Rare "partnered" serial killers | Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole |
| Serial killer from Wisconsin | Ed Gein |
| Was the inspiration for Hannibal Lector and Leatherface | Ed Gein |
| Ted Bundy's psychological type | Power Oriented |
| Dennis Rader's psychological type | Power Oriented |
| Gary Ridgway's psychological type | Mission Oriented |
| Felt he was improving the world by getting rid of undesirable people | Gary Ridgway |
| "Son of Sam" | David Berkowitz |
| David Berkowitz psychological type | Visionary |
| Jeffrey Dahmer's psychological type | Hedonistic |
| Golay and Rutterschmidt's psychological type | Comfort |
| Leslie Van Housten and Lynette Fromme's psychological type | Disciple |
| Killed for financial gain such as insurance benefits or real estate. | Golay and Rutterschmidt |
| influenced people to kill under their charismatic influence | Leslie Van Houten and Lynette Fromme |
| Set 1,412 fires but switched over to killing because it gave him more excitement and TV news coverage | David Berkowitz |
| Serial killer from British Columbia who killed more than 160 | Keith Jesperson |
| Started with dozens of cats and other small animals, before moving on to humans | Keith Jesperson |
| The Riverside Killer | William Suff |
| profiler stated that the killer targeted Caucasians. Then he killed a Hispanic prostitute and dumped her next to police station to show he was in control | William Suff |