Across
- 2. a type of murder that occurs during the commission of another felony such as robbery
- 4. defined as a short-lived killing over a shorter period of time than serial murder
- 6. a type of manslaughter where someone is killed while overwhelmed by emotion or passion
- 9. persons that cannot always be linked to a killer or are unknown
- 11. specific legal category of criminal homicide
- 13. the general name for those murders with 4 or more victims at the same general point in time
- 14. those homicides that imply the motive is autonomous from that of each other homicide
- 16. murders involving multiple victims
- 21. means the killing and consequences were considered and the act was committed anyways
- 22. a type of perpetrator motivation that includes sexual fantasies is known as _____ sexual expression
- 23. those homicides committed to reach a secondary goal
Down
- 1. criminal homicides with a lesser degree of responsibility
- 3. murder of multiple victims by same offender in separate events
- 5. when killers take a momentum from the victim
- 7. general term for killing of another individual
- 8. homicide in defense of life or property
- 10. a type of manslaughter where someone is killed because of another individual's reckless behavior
- 12. homicide that is accidental but not due to recklessness
- 15. a return to normalcy
- 17. the minimum victim threshold in the FBI's 2005 definition of serial murder
- 18. sometimes included in early definitions of serial murder to mean that the killing was thought about and planned
- 19. murder and manslaughter
- 20. the relationship between offender and victim in early definitions of serial murder