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List of Serial Killers on Cold Case

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A serial killer is someone who kills others, usually strangers or acquaintances, with a "cooling-off" period in-between the murders. While the minimum requirement for being a serial killer is three victims, murderers who have less than that but attempted or were likely to have killed again are also listed here. Types of serial killers include:

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A serial killer is someone who kills others, usually strangers or acquaintances, with a "cooling-off" period in-between the murders. While the minimum requirement for being a serial killer is three victims, murderers who have less than that but attempted or were likely to have killed again are also listed here. Types of serial killers include: * Visionary: The perpetrator is delusional, killing for reasons such as believing an otherworldly force (often heavenly or hellish in origin) is somehow forcing or coercing them to. * Mission Oriented: The perpetrator targets specific people for specific reasons, such as revenge for real or imagined wrongs, or due to believing that they are somehow making the world a better place by cleansing it of certain groups, such as other criminals or people of different sexual orientation, class, gender, religion or race. * Lust: The perpetrator attains sexual gratification from the torture and mutilation of their victims. * Thrill: Excitement and the rush caused by the kill is what the perpetrator is after, meaning their victims tend to be completely random, and they may be prone to switching their tactics. Infamy or the belief that they can outsmart the authorities is another possible motivation. * Comfort/Profit: While the perpetrator may enjoy killing, financial or material gain is their primary motivation, and they may attain it through acts such as fraud, forgery, embezzlement, theft, or contract killing. * Control: Often abused themselves, leading to feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, the perpetrator attains a sense of power and purpose through torture, humiliation and killing. Related to the serial killer is the mass murderer, like Cameron Coulter, Neil Hanlon and Paul Chaney, who kill or wound several people in one place, like a school or restaurant, and a spree killer, which is essentially a mobile mass murderer, targeting multiple places instead of focusing on just one.