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Speck was a real mass murderer who killed eight nursing students in Chicago in 1966, CBS reported.
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Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
But the mass murderer apparently did not want to outrun his crimes: Kemper turned himself in by calling police from a phone booth in Pueblo, Colo., and confessing, The New York Times reported.
—Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Online videos appearing to show Idaho mass murderer Bryan Kohberger going about his daily routine in solitary confinement have sparked an investigation.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2025
Kohberger, while not fitting the textbook definition of a serial killer, is still a mass murderer who studied serial killers extensively as part of his graduate degree in criminology.
—Michael Ruiz , Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2025
The first season of Monster chronicled the exploits of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer (played by Evan Peters), and season 3 will star Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein, the mass murderer whose heinous crimes inspired Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 28 July 2025
What else could be expected from a regime that erects statues and monuments to its Official National Hero, the Hitler ally and antisemitic mass murderer Stepan Bandera?
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2025
My last phone call with Barbara Rippy took us to a familiar place: her decades-old anger over the plight of the seven children left motherless by Charlotte mass murderer Henry Louis Wallace.
—Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
His assault received a high degree of media attention but was often presented as an anomaly, and Breivik himself was sometimes portrayed as a mentally unhinged mass murderer rather than as a terrorist, even though his violence was explicitly political.
—Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
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Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
But the mass murderer apparently did not want to outrun his crimes: Kemper turned himself in by calling police from a phone booth in Pueblo, Colo., and confessing, The New York Times reported.
—Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Online videos appearing to show Idaho mass murderer Bryan Kohberger going about his daily routine in solitary confinement have sparked an investigation.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2025
Kohberger, while not fitting the textbook definition of a serial killer, is still a mass murderer who studied serial killers extensively as part of his graduate degree in criminology.
—Michael Ruiz , Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2025
The first season of Monster chronicled the exploits of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer (played by Evan Peters), and season 3 will star Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein, the mass murderer whose heinous crimes inspired Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 28 July 2025
What else could be expected from a regime that erects statues and monuments to its Official National Hero, the Hitler ally and antisemitic mass murderer Stepan Bandera?
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2025
My last phone call with Barbara Rippy took us to a familiar place: her decades-old anger over the plight of the seven children left motherless by Charlotte mass murderer Henry Louis Wallace.
—Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
His assault received a high degree of media attention but was often presented as an anomaly, and Breivik himself was sometimes portrayed as a mentally unhinged mass murderer rather than as a terrorist, even though his violence was explicitly political.
—Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
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“Mass murderer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mass%20murderer. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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