Motivations
Name that serial or mass killer!
Partners in Murder
School Shooters
100

This serial killer enucleated his early victims because he believed that his image would be imprinted into the eyes of his victims.

Who is Andrei Chikatilo?

100

This serial killer’s younger brother was a famous kidnap victim and the focus of a two-part miniseries entitled, “I Know my First Name is Steven.”

Who is Cary Stayner?

100

Their first victim was her sister.

Who are Homolka and Bernardo?

100

In 1997, three students were shot and killed and five wounded as they participated in a prayer circle in this high school.

What is Heath High school, West Paducah, KY?

200

He killed 13 people over a span of 4 months, in order to avoid an earthquake, so the voices told him.

Who is Herbert Mullin?

200

This serial killer was photographed with Rosalyn Carter.

Who is John Wayne Gacy?

200

They wrote in one of their notes to the police: “Call me God.”

Who are Muhammad and Malvo?

200

Suffering from selective mutism, this school shooter killed 33 people on his campus in 2007.

Who is Seung Hui Cho?

300

Known as the “monster of the Andes,” this serial killer’s motivation for the slaying of 110 girls in Ecuador was revenge for his own troubled childhood.

Who is Pedro Lopez?

300

Known as the Scorecard Killer, this serial killer sodomized and mutilated as many as 67 victims in California, Oregon, and Michigan.

Who is Randy Kraft?

300

They suffocated elderly victims at a Grand Rapids nursing home.

Who are Graham and Wood?

300

She is known as the first female school shooter, whose explanation for her violence was “I don’t like Mondays.”

Who is Brenda Spencer?

400

This family annihilator strangled his wife and killed his 3 daughters supposedly to “protect” them.

Who is James Colbert?

400

He scrawled a message for the Chicago police on the apartment wall of one of his victims that read, “For heaven’s sake, catch me before I kill more I cannot control myself.”

Who is William Heirens?

400

He was sent to the electric chair, while his partner in the homicides did only 17 years.

Who are Starkweather and Fugate?

400

He murdered his grandfather and his grandfather’s companion, before killing 10 at his high school.

Who is Jeff Weise?

500

Like Jeffrey Dahmer, this British serial killer attempted to find lasting friendships with his victims.

Who is Dennis Nilsen?

500

In prison, this mass killer was given the nickname, Birdman, because he kept sparrows in his cell.

Who is Richard Speck?

500

This duo nicknamed one of their victims “Toothless.”

Who are Clark and Bundy?

500

This school shooter is the only one who is alive and currently not incarcerated for the offense.

Who is Mitchell Johnson—Jonesborough AR (Golden died in car accident in 2019)