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mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%97%B0%EC%86%8D%EC%82%B4%EC%9D%B8" title="연속살인 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="연속살인" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penembakan_liar" title="Penembakan liar – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Penembakan liar" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spree_killer" title="Spree killer – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Spree killer" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl 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href="/wiki/Consensual_homicide" title="Consensual homicide">Consensual homicide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contract_killing" title="Contract killing">Contract killing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_of_passion" title="Crime of passion">Crime of passion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Depraved-heart_murder" title="Depraved-heart murder">Depraved-heart murder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Felony_murder_rule" title="Felony murder rule">Felony murder rule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foeticide" title="Foeticide">Foeticide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Honor_killing" title="Honor killing">Honor killing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_cannibalism" title="Human cannibalism">Human cannibalism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Child_cannibalism" title="Child cannibalism">Child cannibalism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_sacrifice" title="Human sacrifice">Human sacrifice</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Child_sacrifice" title="Child sacrifice">Child sacrifice</a></li></ul></li> <li><a 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title="Manslaughter in English law">In English law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voluntary_manslaughter" title="Voluntary manslaughter">Voluntary manslaughter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Negligent_homicide" title="Negligent homicide">Negligent homicide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reckless_homicide" title="Reckless homicide">Reckless homicide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vehicular_homicide" title="Vehicular homicide">Vehicular homicide</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Non-criminal homicide</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <p><i>Note: Varies by <a href="/wiki/Jurisdiction_(area)" title="Jurisdiction (area)">jurisdiction</a></i> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/War" title="War">War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assisted_suicide" title="Assisted suicide">Assisted suicide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment" title="Capital punishment">Capital punishment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euthanasia" title="Euthanasia">Euthanasia</a></li> <li><a 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.navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Homicide" title="Template:Homicide"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Homicide" title="Template talk:Homicide"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Homicide" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Homicide"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>A <b>spree killer</b> is someone who commits a criminal act that involves two or more <a href="/wiki/Murder" title="Murder">murders</a> in a short time, often in multiple locations. There are different opinions about what durations of time a killing spree may take place in. The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Bureau_of_Justice_Statistics" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Bureau of Justice Statistics">United States Bureau of Justice Statistics</a> has spoken of "almost no time break between murders", but some academics consider that a killing spree may last weeks or months, e.g. the case of <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Cunanan" title="Andrew Cunanan">Andrew Cunanan</a>, who murdered five people over three months. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Definition">Definition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spree_killer&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Definition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The general definition of spree murder is two or more murders committed by a person (or people) with no cooling-off period, in contrast to <a href="/wiki/Serial_killer" title="Serial killer">serial murder</a>, where there is a period of time between killings.<sup id="cite_ref-Morton_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Morton-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The U.S. <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a> (FBI) has found the category to be of no real value to law enforcement because quantifying a "cooling-off period" is arbitrary. Serial killers commit murders in separate events, at different times. <a href="/wiki/Mass_murder" title="Mass murder">Mass murderers</a> are defined by one incident, with no distinctive period between the murders.<sup id="cite_ref-Morton_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Morton-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>How to distinguish a spree killer from a mass murderer, or a serial killer, is subject to considerable debate, and the terms are not consistently applied even within the academic literature. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Bureau_of_Justice_Statistics" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Bureau of Justice Statistics">United States Bureau of Justice Statistics</a> has defined a spree killing as "killings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment</i> lists five different categories of spree killers and cites <a href="/wiki/1999_Atlanta_day_trading_firm_shootings" title="1999 Atlanta day trading firm shootings">Mark O. Barton</a> as an example of the second one.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is also noted alongside mass murderers, such as <a href="/wiki/Edmond_post_office_shooting" title="Edmond post office shooting">Patrick Sherrill</a>, in the respective entry about mass murder.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>The Anatomy of Motive</i>, <a href="/wiki/John_E._Douglas" title="John E. Douglas">John E. Douglas</a> cites <a href="/wiki/Charles_Starkweather" title="Charles Starkweather">Charles Starkweather</a> and <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Cunanan" title="Andrew Cunanan">Andrew Cunanan</a> (who murdered five people over three months) as examples of spree killers,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while <a href="/wiki/Jack_Levin_(sociologist)" title="Jack Levin (sociologist)">Jack Levin</a> calls Starkweather a mass murderer and Cunanan a serial killer.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <i>Controversial Issues in Criminology</i>, Fuller and Hickey write that "[t]he element of time involved between murderous acts is primary in the differentiation of serial, mass, and spree murderers", later elaborating those spree killers "will engage in the killing acts for days or weeks" while the "methods of murder and types of victims vary". <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Cunanan" title="Andrew Cunanan">Andrew Cunanan</a> is given as an example of spree killing, while <a href="/wiki/Charles_Whitman" title="Charles Whitman">Charles Whitman</a> is mentioned in connection with mass murder and <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Dahmer" title="Jeffrey Dahmer">Jeffrey Dahmer</a> with serial killing.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <i>Serial Murder,</i> Ronald M. Holmes and Stephen<span class="nowrap"> </span>T. Holmes defines spree murder as "the killing of three or more people within a 30-day period" and add that killing sprees are "usually accompanied by the commission of another felony."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They cite <a href="/wiki/Charles_Starkweather" title="Charles Starkweather">Charles Starkweather</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="Beltway sniper attacks">Beltway Snipers</a> as examples of spree killers.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They define <i>serial</i> murder as "the killing of three or more people over a period of more than 30 days, with a significant cooling-off period between the killings."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under this definition, Andrew Cunanan would be categorized as a serial killer and not a spree killer. </p><p>In <i>Sexual Homicide</i>, Ressler, Burgess and Douglas gave more emphasis to killings being at more than one location, and less precision about the time span, saying that a single event can last a short or long time, citing <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Wilder" title="Christopher Wilder">Christopher Wilder</a>'s seven-week "murder event" or "killing spree".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Douglas wrote that the identity of serial killers is generally unknown until they are caught, and a mass murderer's identity is learned only after they have committed the crime. The identity of the spree killer, on the other hand, usually becomes known by police while the spree is still in progress.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The reason for this is unclear. (March 2021)">why?</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The term <i><b>rampage killer</b></i> has also been used sometimes to describe spree killers,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> especially when a single individual perpetrator: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>A rampage involves the (attempted) killing of multiple persons at least partly in public space by a single physically present perpetrator using (potentially) deadly weapons in a single event without any cooling-off period.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spree_killer&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Active_shooter" title="Active shooter">Active shooter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Going_postal" title="Going postal">Going postal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gun_Violence_Archive" title="Gun Violence Archive">Gun Violence Archive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers" title="List of rampage killers">List of rampage killers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mass_shooting" title="Mass shooting">Mass shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Massacre" title="Massacre">Massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Running_amok" class="mw-redirect" title="Running amok">Running amok</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thrill_killing" title="Thrill killing">Thrill killing</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spree_killer&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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