mass murderer

noun

: a person who has killed many people

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Apparently, this reluctant mass murderer was not the only one failing to comply. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2026 Having partnered with other teen mass murderer Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich), Stu originally died when Sidney slammed a television onto his screaming face in the 1996 original. Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Feb. 2026 The Zodiac Killer is a mass murderer who terrorized the city of San Francisco from 1968 to 1970. Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 21 Dec. 2025 Global criticism of Israel’s indiscriminate use of force, accusations of genocide, and the portrayal of Netanyahu as a mass murderer on an epic scale were presented to Israelis as mere expressions of anti-Semitism. Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 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

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“Mass murderer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mass%20murderer. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.

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