Serial Killers
Not-So Fun True Crime Facts
Specifically Minnesota
Crime Statistics
True Crime Media
100

How many active Serial Killers are there in the US right now?

What is 25-50, based on FBI estimates.

100

What is the most dangerous US State?

Where is Alaska.


100

The city with the highest rate of violent crime in Minnesota is...

What is Minneapolis

100

Do more Men commit serial murder, or do Women?

Who are Men? 

100

1934: An ambush in Louisiana takes the lives of two of America's most wanted outlaws

Who are Bonnie and Clyde 

200

What percent of Serial Killers are psychopaths?

What is 86.5 percent. (85-90 acceptable)

200

What country has the second most active serial killers?

Where is England.


200

Is Minnesota one of the safer states in the US, or one of the most dangerous?

What is more dangerous - ranking #36 for violent crime

200

How many violent crimes happen in the US every year?

What is 1.3 Million. (We will accept anything between 1-1.5 million due to statistical bias)
200

1959: A home invasion gone awry ends in the senseless and bloody massacre of a family of four in Kansas.

What is In Cold Blood

300

What was the name of the Unabomber?

Who is Ted Kaczynski

300

What is the minimum ADULT prison sentence for first degree murder in the US?

What is 30 years.

300

What Minnesota County did Joseph Donald Ture, Jr commit his famous serial killings and rapes? 

What is Washington County.

He killed many but was convicted for 6+ - he raped and axed his victims to death

300

What percentage of violent crime happens in Urban areas? (Which account for 25 percent of the population)

What is 38 percent. (35-40 acceptable)

300

1963: Three rifle shots from a sixth-floor window in Dallas, Texas changes history.

What is the JFK assassination?

400

Who is the most prolific American Serial Killer?

Who is Samuel Little.

400

Of the current top 10 podcasts on Spotify, how many are True Crime?

What is 2, Crime Junkie and Over My Dead Body.

400

What famous crime movie was based on a Minnesota crime and filmed here?

What is North Country (2005).


Based on the true story of a landmark sexual harassment lawsuit, this film is set in the Iron Range of Minnesota.

400

What percent of sexual crimes are caused by men?

What is 99 percent. (Above 90 acceptable)

400

1968-1969: A serial killer is on the loose in Northern California. In a series of cryptic communiques with San Francisco newspapers, the killer (who was never caught and never identified) claimed to have killed as many as 37; history attributes five murders to him.

Who is the Zodiac Killer.

500

Who is the most prolific Global Serial Killer?

Who is Luis Garavito, 193 Proven victims.

500

What percent of repeat crime is done by left-handed people? (10 percent of the population btw)

What is 33 percent. Yikes

500

What was the name of the famous Wisconsin cannibal known as "The Plainfield Ghoul"?

BTW, he made furniture and objects from his victims

Who is Edward Theodore GEIN

500

How many murders did serial killer Jane Toppan confess to? (Most prolific American Female Serial Killer)

What is 31 (rumored to be more).

500

1957-1958: "From the town of Lincoln, Nebraska, with a sawed off .410 on his lap" (as Bruce Springsteen would later put it), a 19-year-old male and his 14-year-old girlfriend leave 11 dead on their journey west. Seventeen months later, the man is electrocuted; 17 years later, the girl, who claimed she was an innocent captive, is released from prison.

Who are Natural Born Killers?