Difference Between Serial Killers And What Made Them Snap

Spree Killers and What Made Them Snap
What is the difference between a spree killer and a serial killer? Well it has nothing to do with the amount of victims. A serial killer is defined as a person who murders three or more people with a cooling off period between each killing. A spree killer on the other hand is someone who kills two or more people with little or no cooling off period in-between.
Spree killers, or mass murderers are among the scariest types of killers because most of the time they choose their victims completely at random and carry out their murders in public places. But while some killers truly do snap and act on impulse, most of them as you will soon see actually plan their attacks, sometimes years and years in advance.
In 1949, Howard Unruh, a decorated WW2 veteran left his home in the quiet neighborhood of Camden, New Jersey, and in just over 12 minutes shot and killed 13 people. Three of his victims were children and the youngest was only 2 years old.
Howard Unruh had returned from the war after an honorable discharge and was living with his mother at the time of the killings. He was unemployed and was often teased by neighborhood teens who called him a mama’s boys and make jokes about him being a homosexual. With little to occupy his time he grew deeply paranoid about his neighbors. His breaking point was when he found that his new garden gate had been stolen; he went on his killing spree the following day.
Unruh was found to be suffering from schizophrenia and was declared criminally insane. He sent the next 60 years in a mental hospital where he died at the age of 88 in 2009.
14 2011 Norway
The incident occurred on the 8th of October 1999, during the Second Chechen War. He walked through the village with a Kalashnikov rifle and methodically shot every Russian person that he could find. If he only wounded them with the first shot he followed up with a shot to the head. The youngest of his victims was just 10 years old.
Ibragimov fled the village when he ran out of ammunition but he was captured two days later and handed over to the relatives of his victims. Hungry for vengeance they handcuffed him to a pole in the village square and beat him to death.
11 Woo-Bum Kon’s Killing Spree crimescenedb.com Until Anders Behring Breivik carried out the 2011 Norway Massacre, Woo Bum-Kon had the macabre distinction of being the deadliest lone mass murderer in modern history. His overnight killing rampage left 56 people dead and another 35