Reply #114: one of the 4 catagories for serial killers is - mission

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where they claim they kill prostitues, drug addicts etc. to rid society of them. This is what Ridgeway claimed. He's supposed to be a classic case.

below are excerpts from the news link I listed:


"Most of the time I killed them the first time I met them, and I do not have a good memory of their faces," he said.

"I hate most prostitutes and I did not want to pay them for sex," he said.

"I also picked prostitutes as victims because they were easy to pick up without being noticed. I knew they would not be reported missing right away and might never be reported missing. I picked prostitutes because I thought I could kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught."

In recent decades several other serial murders have haunted the north-western US and neighbouring Canada:


Robert Lee Yates Junior, a father of five and National Guard helicopter pilot, sentenced to death after admitting he killed 15 people, mostly prostitutes, from the 1970s to the 1990s in Spokane, Washington;

Ted Bundy, who confessed to 28 murders in the 1970s - several of his victims were found in Washington and Oregon. Executed in Florida in 1989;

In Vancouver, Canadian pig farmer Robert "Willy" Pickton faces charges of murdering at least 15 women among 60 prostitutes and drug addicts who vanished in the past two decades.
Worldwide, among the most prolific serial killers of recent times were: