WordNet
n. someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval [syn: serial killer]
Usage examples of "serial murderer".
I testified as an expert witness to help secure the conviction of serial murderer George Russell Jr.
Grieve and Detective Inspector Howard Gosling, walking about Whitechapel and Spitalfields, to Mitre Square, and to Miller's Court where Mary Kelly was flayed to the bone by this serial murderer people call the Ripper.
In fact, she'd gotten high grades on all the various protocols, tests, and measuring tools she'd developed to predict and judge the depths of contamination in the serial murderer's mind.
I know it's not uncommon for a serial murderer to return to the grave of his victims.
Whatever's up with Catlin, he's not a psychopathic serial murderer.
It was one thing, studying a serial murderer like Jack the Ripper, whose victims were quite well known.
How to explain that we know he was a serial murderer and didn't warn the police sooner.
Now that she was a veteran of the Bureau, veteran of many lateral assignments, she could see that her early triumph in catching the serial murderer Jame Gumb was part of her undoing in the Bureau.
He certainly enters homes with ease, and that is consistent with a serial burglar who has progressed to a serial murderer.
Sensational national news accounts of a serial murderer are the last thing the city needs.
His chief servant, both in the virtual and real world, is a half-Aboriginal serial murderer who has named himself Dread, who combines a taste for hunting humans with a strange extrasensory ability to manipulate electronic circuitry that allows him to blank security cameras and otherwise avoid detection.