Spree killer
A spree killer is someone who embarks on a murder rampage. This is an ambiguous term, related to mass murderer and serial killer.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a spree killing as: "[involving] killings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders." The definition is especially close to that of a serial killer; perhaps, the primary difference between the two is that a serial killer tends to "lure" victims to their death; whereas, a spree killer tends to go "hunting".
Spree killers
- Howard Unruh (1949)
- Charles Starkweather (1958)
- Charles Whitman (1963)
- James Oliver Huberty (San Ysidro McDonald's Massacre — 1984)
- Michael Robert Ryan (The Hungerford Massacre — 1987)
- Julio Gonzalez (the Happyland Fire — 1990)
- Colin Ferguson (1993)
- Martin Bryant (the Port Arthur massacre — 1996)
- Julian Knight (the Hoddle Street massacre — 1987)
- Thomas Hamilton (The Dunblane massacre — 1996)
- Andrew Cunanan (1997)
- Mark O. Barton (1999)
- Benjamin Nathaniel Smith (1999)
- Marc Lepine (the Montreal Massacre — 1989)
- Columbine High School Massacre (1999)
- Nikolay Soltys (2001)
- Friedrich Leibacher (2001)
- Robert Steinhäuser (the Erfurt massacre — 2002)
- the Beltway Snipers (2002)
- the Interstate_270 Shooter (2003)
In many countries, the acts of spree killers have been catalysts for the tightening of gun control laws.
See also
Fiction
- Helen Zahavi: Dirty Weekend
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