Can You Identify These Serial Killers From One Fact?

By: Becky
Estimated Completion Time
2 min
Can You Identify These Serial Killers From One Fact?
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About This Quiz

Are you an expert on serial killers? Prove it.

Anyone who watches "Criminal Minds" knows that the episodes are often based on real-life serial killers. And, since the show has run for nearly 300 episodes, it is clear that the minds of these criminals have given the show plenty of fodder to choose from. Certainly we know that serial killers have existed since the beginning of time, yet the term "serial killer" is relatively new. In general, a serial killer is one who kills more than three people over a period of time. This distinction is different from a spree killer, who may kill several people, but who does so over a short period of time, and the mass killer, who kills several people (or more) at the same time. Serial killers were once called mass killers, until this new definition was put into place.

Serial killers kill for many reasons, including anger, thrills and money, but their reasons nearly always involve some sort of psychological component. Serial killers also tend to have a specific signature, or way of doing things, that remains relatively constant across each of their crimes.

Thinks you know all there is to know about serial killers? See if you can identify each of these.

He killed 30 women from 1974-1979.
Charles Manson
Jeffrey Dahmer
Ted Bundy
Frankenstein
The Killer Clown
Ted Bundy
Charles Manson
Dracula
John Wayne Gacy
He ate his victims.
Ted Bundy
Charles Manson
John Wayne Gacy
Jeffrey Dahmer

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Northern California astrological killer
The Zodiac Killer
Charles Manson
Jeffrey Dahmer
Ted Bundy
1893 World's Fair killer
Charles Manson
Dracula
Frankenstein
H.H. Holmes
The Green River Killer
Charles Manson
Dracula
Gary Ridgway
Ted Bundy

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The Night Stalker
Richard Ramirez
Charles Manson
HH Holmes
Ted Bundy
The Co-ed Killer
Ted Bundy
John Wayne Gacy
Edmund Kemper
Charles Manson
BTK Killer
Ted Bundy
Dennis Ramirez
Dennis Rader
Charles Manson

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The Mad Butcher
Ed Gein
John Wayne Gacy
Richard Ramirez
Ted Bundy
Son of Sam
Ed Gein
Charles Manson
John Wayne Gacy
David Berkowitz
Prostitute turned killer
Charles Manson
Dracula
Aileen Wuornos
Frankenstein

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Toy box killer
Charles Manson
Ted Bundy
Jeffrey Dahmer
David Parker Ray
The Boston Strangler
Albert DeSalvo
Charles Manson
Ted Bundy
John Wayne Gacy
The Hillside Stranglers
Kenneth Bianchi
Ted Bundy
Jeffrey Dahmer
Charles Manson

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The Genesee River Killer
John Wayne Gacy
Charles Bianchi
Charles Manson
Arthur Shawcross
The Dating Game Killer
Dracula
Rodney Alcala
Frankenstein
Attila the Hun
Double Initial Murders
Joseph Naso
Ted Bundy
Charles Manson
Jeffrey Dahmer

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Happy Face Killer
Ed Burns
Brad Pitt
George Clooney
Hunter Jesperson
The Confession Killer
Hunter Jesperson
Richard Ramirez
Henry Lee Lucas
Charles Manson
Joel the Ripper
Joel Rifkin
Frankenstein
Dracula
Attila the Hun

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Spokane Serial Killer
Charles Manson
Robert Lee Yates
Jeffrey Dahmer
Ted Bundy
The Vampire of Sacramento
Richard Ramirez
Richard Chase
John Wayne Gacy
Charles Manson
The Butcher Baker
Robert Hansen
Jeffrey Dahmer
Dracula
Charles Manson

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The Meanest Man in America
Donald Henry Gaskins
Charles Manson
Richard Ramirez
John Wayne Gacy
The Lonely Hearts Killer
Nannie Doss
Aileen Wuornos
Charles Manson
Jeffrey Dahmer.
The Cross Country Killer
Charles Manson
Dracula
Frankenstein
Glen Edward Rogers

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The Casanova Killer
Paul John Knowles
Jeffrey Dahmer
John Wayne Gacy
Charles Manson
The Freeway Killer
William Bonin
Jeffrey Dahmer
Dracula
Frankenstein
The Gainesville Ripper
Richard Ramirez
Danny Rolling
Charles Manson
Ty Davis

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The Butcher of Elmendorf
Joe Ball
Charles Manson
John Wayne Gacy
The Clown Killer
The Racist Killer
Richard Ramirez
Joseph Paul Franklin
Bruno Buono
Charles Manson
The Death House Landlady
Aileen Wuornos
Dorothea Puente
HH Holmes
Charles Manson

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The Angel of Death
Dorothea Puente
Aileen Wuornos
HH Holmes
Kristen Gilbert
The Scorecard Killer
Randy Steven Kraft
HH Holmes
Richard Ramirez
Jeffrey Dahmer