Serial Killers

10 cards   |   Total Attempts: 188
  

Cards In This Set

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Question 1
Elizabeth Bathory
  • Kingdom of Hungary, 1585-1609
  • Total victim count was 650
  • Severe beatings, burning, mutilation, biting the flesh off, freezing and starvation
  • Found guilty and sentenced to house arrest; died of natural causes
Question 2
H.H. Holmes
  • Chicago, 1882-1885
  • Nine could be plausibly confirmed
  • Asphyxiation, drugged
  • Hanged for murder in 1896, however his neck did not snap and it took him 20 minutes to die
Question 3
Pedro Rodrigues Filho
  • Brazil, 1968-present
  • At least 71 victims
  • Shooting and beating- beat his father to death, cut out his heart and chewed it up
  • Imprisoned in 1973, released in 2007, and imprisoned again in 2011
Question 4
Ahmad Suradji
  • Medan, North Sumatra, 1986-1997
  • 42 girls and women
  • Strangled after being buried up to their waists as part of a ritual
  • Sentenced to death by firing squad and executed on July 10 2008.
Question 5
Paul John Knowles
  • Southern America, 1974
  • 20 confirmed, possibly 35 victims
  • Strangulation by pantyhose and telephone cord, stabbing and shooting
  • Shot by police after apprehension during a struggle
Question 6
Anatoly Onoprienko
  • Ukraine, 1989-1996
  • 52 confirmed victims
  • Shooting, beating and axing
  • Was given a life sentence and died in jail of heart failure on August 27, 2013
Question 7
William George Heirens
  • Chicago, 1946
  • 3 confirmed victims
  • Stabbed, strangled and dismembered
  • Died from complications of diabetes while serving a life sentence in 2012
Question 8
Richard Ramirez
  • Los Angeles and San Francisco, June 1984-August 1985
  • 13 murder victims
  • Handguns, knives, a machete, a tire iron and a hammer
  • Died of complications of B-cell lymphoma while on death row
Question 9
Aileen Wuornos
  • Florida, 1989-1990
  • 6 confirmed victims
  • Shooting at point blank range
  • Executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002
Question 10
Dean Arnold Corll A.K.A. "The Candy Man"
  • Houston, Texas, 1970-1973
  • At least 28 boys
  • Would lure boys into his van and then shoot or strangle
  • Was shot and killed by an accomplice