Summary
Spree murders is a horrible term because of the way it links something as chilling as cold-blooded mass murder with the harmless pastime of shopping. In the US, the FBI uses it to distinguish killers who murder several people on a single occasion from serial killers, such as the Yorkshire Ripper, who commit their crimes over a period of time.
In Britain, spree killings are, thankfully, rare. So Derrick Bird, who left a trail of corpses and mayhem in Cumbria before turning his gun on himself, joins a mercifully small band. As when Michael Ryan killed 16 people in Hungerford and Thomas Hamilton murdered 17 in Dunblane, in each case it is the sheer random nature of the crime that makes it so difficult to understand, and the perpetrators almost invariably take their secrets to the grave, robbing the bereaved of the bleak compensation of a trial and conviction.See the full content of this document
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Struggling to Comprehend What Drives a Man to Brutal Killings
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