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American Murder
You Gotta Know These American Murders and Murderers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In what Massachusetts city did the Borden murders occur | Fall River |
| What weapon was used to kill Andrew and Abby Borden | An axe |
| What common schoolyard rhyme arose from the Lizzie Borden axe murders | Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks |
| Under the influence of what substance was Lizzie's initial inquest testimony given | Morphine |
| What item did Lizzie burn, arousing police suspicion | An allegedly paint-stained dress |
| Who was the eminent architect shot and killed atop Madison Square Garden | Stanford White |
| Who was the millionaire and railroad heir who committed the murder of Stanford White | Harry K. Thaw |
| Thaw claimed White had assaulted his wife, a fashion model and chorus girl named whom | Evelyn Nesbit |
| What historic legal precedent did the media sensation surrounding Harry K. Thaw's trial cause | The jury was sequestered for the first time in an American criminal case |
| Thaw was found not guilty by reason of what | Temporary insanity |
| Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were obsessed with what Nietzschean concept | The Übermensch |
| What was the name of the fourteen-year-old victim Leopold and Loeb kidnapped and killed | Bobby Franks |
| What crucial piece of evidence led police to Leopold | A pair of eyeglasses with unique hinges |
| Who was the famous lawyer hired by Loeb’s parents to help them avoid the death penalty | Clarence Darrow |
| How was Richard Loeb killed in prison in 1936 | He was murdered by a fellow inmate |
| What famous aviator’s infant son was kidnapped in New Jersey | Charles Lindbergh |
| At the site of Lindbergh's baby's kidnapping, a ransom letter was signed with a symbol resembling a dark blot inside what shape | A Venn diagram |
| Who was nicknamed "Cemetery John" during the ransom drop-off after the Lindbergh Baby Murder | Bruno Hauptmann |
| What form of payment was used for the ransom money after the Lindbergh Baby murder | Gold certificates |
| The Lindbergh Baby murder spurred the passage of what significant federal legislation | The Federal Kidnapping Act |
| What was the real name of the victim nicknamed "the Black Dahlia" | Elizabeth Short |
| How was the victim's corpse in the Black Dahlia murder described upon discovery in a vacant lot | Mutilated and luridly posed |
| A newspaper reporter for the LA Examiner tricked Short's mother into thinking her daughter had won what | A beauty contest |
| The killer in the Black Dahlia case used words cut-and-pasted from magazines to address an envelope containing what | Elizabeth Short's (victim) personal effects |
| Why were police unable to solve the Black Dahlia murder | Extreme media exposure generated countless false leads |
| Who was the man who murdered Kitty Genovese outside her apartment building | Winston Moseley |
| The media headline "Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police" was used for what murder | Kitty Genovese's murder |
| The popular conception of Kitty Genovese's murder is often cited as an example of what social psychological phenomenon | The bystander effect (or diffusion of responsibility) |
| What is the modern study finding that challenges the original reporting of Kitty Genovese's murder | Only two witnesses actually called the police (or no witness saw the crime in its entirety) |
| In what geographic region of California did the Zodiac Killer operate | The Bay Area (specifically Benicia, Vallejo, and Presidio Heights) |
| Bryan Hartnell, a survivor, described the Zodiac killer as wearing what kind of head covering | A black executioner's hood |
| What symbol did the Zodiac Killer use to sign his letters to newspapers | A crosshair symbol |
| The Zodiac killer claimed in his letters that he was collecting what for the afterlife | Slaves |
| The Zodiac killer’s final letter from 1974 called what film a "comedy" | The Exorcist |
| How did Ted Bundy typically lure victims to his car | By feigning a disability or impersonating a policeman |
| What kind of car mentioned in police reports led to Ted Bundy's arrest near Salt Lake City | A Volkswagen |
| How many times did Bundy escape from custody while on trial in Colorado | Twice |
| Where did Bundy travel after his second escape, where he killed at least three more people | Florida |
| Who did Bundy marry in court while she was on the witness stand during his 1980 murder trial | Carole Ann Boone |
| Victim of the 1980 murder outside the Dakota Apartments | John Lennon |
| Date of John Lennon's murder | December 8, 1980 |
| Perpetrator in the John Lennon murder | Mark David Chapman |
| Novel that inspired Chapman | The Catcher in the Rye |
| Sportscaster who first announced Lennon's death | Howard Cosell |
| City and State of the Columbine massacre | Columbine, Colorado |
| Date of the Columbine massacre | April 20, 1999 |
| Perpetrators of the Columbine massacre | Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold |
| Number of people murdered at Columbine | Thirteen (one teacher and twelve students) |
| Cultural influences blamed for the Columbine attack | Violent video games (Doom), Marilyn Manson, goth subculture |
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