Killer TV Shows
This series follows a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit based in Quantico, Virginia. The show differs from many procedural dramas by focusing on profiling the suspect themselves, called the unsub or "unknown subject", rather than the crime itself.
What is Criminal Minds
This serial killer wrote a letter to the Chronicle, postmarked October 13, 1969. The writer mocked police for failing to catch him and threatened to shoot children on a school bus. The envelope contained a piece of the blood-stained shirt belonging to victim Paul Stine.
Who is The Zodiac Killer
Coined the "Angel of Death," this pediatric nurse killed four babies and attempted to murder at least nine others.
Who is Beverly Allitt
In the movie Halloween 5, After lying in a coma for a year, Michael Myers awakens and stalks his way back to his small hometown in Illinois, intent on killing his niece, Jamie , who has been confined to a mental institution since Michael's last attempt to slay her. Suspecting a psychic link between Michael and Jamie, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence) joins forces with Sheriff Ben Meeker (Beau Starr) and attempts to stop Michael's latest rampage. What was the release date of this 5th installment?
Someone who voluntarily helps another person commit a crime.
What is an accomplice
This American anthology horror television series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk is an anthology series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a haunting past, an insane asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a possessed farmhouse, and a cult.
What is American Horror Story
On Friday, October 13th 1972, an Uruguayan aircraft carrying the Old Christians rugby team and their friends and family went down in the mountains in Argentina, near the border of Chile. The survivors of that crash became inspirations for books, movies most notably the 1993 film “Alive because of this act of survival.
What is cannibalism
One-half of the infamous "Moors Murderers" along with Myra Hindley, he murdered five kids ages 10 to 17, then buried them in Saddleworth Moor.
Who was Ian Brady
This term comes from a Legend: That Stingy Jack invited the devil to have a drink with him, but Jack didn't want to pay for the drink, so he convinced the devil to turn himself into a coin. Instead of buying the drink, he pocketed the coin and kept it close to a silver cross in his house, preventing the devil from taking shape again. These were also not made from pumpkins orginally...
What are Jack O Lanterns
This term describes a person who murders three or more people, usually in service of abnormal psychological gratification, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them. While most authorities set a threshold of three murders, others extend it to four or lessen it to two.
What is a serial killer
When he's not doing forensic work for the Miami Police, this character hunts down murderers as a vigilante serial killer with a brutal past.
Who is Dexter
On October 13, 1972, this American serial killer beat to death a 55 year old homeless man claiming he was Jonah from the Bible, and that he had sent him a telepathic message saying, "Pick me up and throw me over the boat. Kill me so that others will be saved."
Who is Herbert Mullin
A Polish serial killer known as the Borough Poisoner poisoned three women and is suspected by some of being Jack the Ripper.
Who was George Chapman
This term described dressing up and going door to door originally. It was believed that phantoms walked the earth on the night of Samhain, so people would dress up in costumes in an effort to repel the spirits.
What is Souling
a legal term for any killing of a human being by another human being. It is not necessarily a crime—for instance, a justifiable killing of a suspect by the police or a killing in self-defense. Murder and manslaughter fall under this category.
What is a homicide
Airing for the first time on October 13th, 2017, an American crime thriller television series created by Joe Penhall, based on the true crime book by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker. FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench interview imprisoned serial killers to understand how they think, with the hope of applying this knowledge to solve ongoing cases.
What is Mindhunter
This is the psychological term for Fear of the number 13
What is triskaidekaphobia.
This English serial killer, also known as the Camden Ripper, dismembered some of his victims.
Who is Anthony Hardy
Spirits roam the halls at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave — The United States' most famous address has had several reports of ghostly appearances and eerie sounds – and that's not even including election years! The most common ghost sighting is of this former US President who has been spotted by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and Sir Winston Churchill.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
This crime is committed when a person flees to avoid being apprehended, detained, or arrested.
What is evading arrest
After his family is murdered, a con man posing as a psychic medium uses his keen observational skills to help the California Bureau of Investigation solve their hardest cases, while tracking down a vicious serial killer.
Who is or what is the Mentalist
In the late-19th century, a New Yorker named Captain William Fowler sought to remove the enduring stigma surrounding the number 13—and particularly the unwritten rule about not having 13 guests at a dinner table—by founding an exclusive society called this...
What is the Thirteen club
Prior to his arrest, the media nicknamed the unidentified killer "the Beast of Birkenshaw". He was hanged at Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison.
Who is Peter Manuel
The original classic 1978 horror film "Halloween" was filmed on such a tight budget that the crew used a famous "stars" iconic and cheapest mask they could find. They spray painted it white and reshaped the eye holes.
What is or who is Star Trek Captain James Kirk
Supplementary evidence that tends to strengthen or confirm the initial evidence.
What is Corroborating Evidence