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The police have arrested Jessie Dotson, age 33 . The killings, which occurred in Memphis, Tennessee, occurred in February 2008 . There is no reason known at this time for the murders.(Courier-Journal, March 9, 2008, p. A-3)  \nA young teenager’s boyfriend killed her mother and two brothers, ages 8 and 13 . Arraigned on murder charges in Texas were the girl, a juvenile, her 19-year-old boyfriend, Charlie James Wilkinson, and two others on three charges of capital murder. The girl’s father was shot five times but survived. The reason for the murders? The parents did not want their daughter dating Wilkinson. (Wolfson, 2008)  \nIntroduction  \nThere is a great deal of misunderstanding about the three types of multicide: serial murder, mass murder, and spree murder. This chapter will list the traits and characteristics of these three types of killers, as well as the  \ntraits and characteristics of the killings themselves.  \nRecently, a school shooting occurred in Colorado. Various news outlets erroneously reported the shooting as a spree killing. Last year in Nevada, a man entered a courtroom and killed three people. This, too, was erroneously reported as a spree killing. Both should have been labeled instead as mass murder. The assigned labels by the media have little to do with motivations and anticipated gains in the original effort to label it some type of multicide. Using another example, several decades ago, Charles Starkweather went on a “killing spree” with his girlfriend, Carol Fugate. He started by killing Fugate’s parents and ended his killings 30 days later. His total number of victims was more than three and the time frame was less than 30 days. What were his motivations? What was his anticipated gain? When John Wayne Gacy killed 33 young men in and around Chicago over a period of several years, what were his motivations and what was his anticipated gain? In 1995, when Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, an act that has been termed the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil before 9/11, 168 lives were lost and more than 800 injured. Should we term their act spree murder, mass murder, or serial murder?  \nIn December 2007, a church in Arvada, Colorado, was the target of a mass murderer. Five people were killed. Many more could have been victims had not the volunteer security guard at the church shot and killed the gunman. Also in Colorado, two young men, students at Columbine High School, went on a killing spree at the school, killing 12 students and one teacher before killing themselves. In Kentucky, one man recently died in prison, a suspect in a serial murder case where his victims numbered in the teens. The victims are all dead, leaving one crucial question to be asked: why? Another question is how the victims were selected. There are many other questions to be asked and answered. That is the reason for this chapter: to clarify the differences and similarities among mass, spree, and serial murderers; to examine why these multicides happen; to look at how victims are selected; and to ask and answer other questions.  \nDefinitions, Traits, and Characteristics  \nWith some regularity, the mass media report cases of multicide with no regard to the specifics of exactly what type of multicide has been committed. With that said, let us offer definitions for mass murder and spree murder.  \nMass Murder  \nMass murder is the killing of three or more people at one time and in one place. There are many examples of mass murder: Three decades ago, a man named James Oliver Huberty walked into a McDonald’s restaurant and killed 21 people before forcing the police to kill him. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols killed 168 people at one time and in one p","cbCaiazE4QlZDZgd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiazE4QlZDZgd","pdf",188717,24,"English","# Introduction\n# Definitions, Traits, and Characteristics\n## Mass Murder\n## Case Examples and Mislabeling Context","[{\"question\":\"What is the book chapter trying to clarify about multicide types?\",\"answer\":\"It clarifies differences and similarities among mass, spree, and serial murderers, including why these events occur and how victims are selected.\"},{\"question\":\"How is mass murder defined in the text?\",\"answer\":\"Mass murder is defined as the killing of three or more people at one time and in one place.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the chapter emphasize that media labels can be misleading?\",\"answer\":\"Because inaccurate labeling has little to do with understanding motivations and anticipated gains, which the chapter argues are central to distinguishing these crimes.\"}]","Two Types of Multicides - Mass Murder and Spree Murder | PDF"]