Sociology -- Murder City

Who wrote Murder City?

Dr. Michael Arntfield

How many known serial killers in history known in Canada?

62 known serial killers

The bedroom strangler

Russell Johnson

The mad slasher

Christian Magee

The chambermaid slayer

Gerald Archer

The hunter of the hunters

Dennis Alsop Sr.

Serial killer

Someone who has murdered on two distinctive occasions

Mass murderer

Someone who has killed 3 or more people in a single incident, whether in a fixed location or as part of a mobile killing spree

What separates serial killers from mass murderers?

Paraphilias

Psychosis

A condition that can be either acute or chronic and amounts to a disorder of the mind or some other cognitive abnormality that presents itself in an obvious or clinical fashion

Psychopathy

Anti-social personality disorder ; a clinical or criminal psychopath is an individual who scores 30+ on a standardized test known as the psychopathic check list

Organized killers

Associated with psychopathic killers. Plan, premeditate, are in control, crimes are well thought out

Unorganized

Associated with psychosis. Impulsive, opportunistic, worries about consequences later, if at all

Process focused killers

Organized, psychopaths, sexual sadists whose fantasies are built around extreme, expressive violence and deep seated paraphilias

Act focused killers

Clinical and efficient, instrumental violence

Modus Operandi

How killers kill. Highly unstable ; they can evolve and devolve and change entirely

Signatures

Usually limited to sexually motivated and process focuses killers. Signatures are unique and individuating characteristics that are difficult to fake

Attack or criminal paraphilias

Indulgences in fantasy enactment that requires violence against others, or non-consenting partners in order to complete

When do attack paraphilias emerge?

They emerge when the preparatory paraphilia becomes boring or doesn’t fulfill their needs

Steven Truscott

Charged and convicted for the murder of Lynne Harper. He was innocent

The Hangover

The defeatist under current within the OPP. An extreme level of tentativeness within the upper brass of policing

Critical mass

Describes a self-sustaining chain reaction. Today, also referred to as “going viral” or “network effect”

General difference

Describes the logic that aspiring offenders with criminal ideas about executing crimes with be deterred from doing those acts if they see other like-minded people getting caught

Name of the uncaught serial killer who killed Frankie Jenson, Scott Leishman, and 4 other boys in Toronto

The Neighbour