Spree Killers

Several killings in different places over one short, unbroken stretch of time.

5 cases

The Incest Killer

Given up for adoption to protect her from her volatile father, Katie Fusco grew up happy in Dover, New York — until, just after turning eighteen, she went looking for her biological family and found Steven Pladl waiting.

The Magnificent Gentleman

Elliot Rodger grew up amid Hollywood privilege — a filmmaker father, lavish holidays abroad — nursing resentments that began with his parents' divorce and never stopped growing. The shy boy who couldn't make friends would come to call himself something far grander.

The Hammer Killer

In January 1984, residents of Aurora, Colorado, began waking to a nightmare: an intruder standing over their beds with a hammer. The attacks were only the beginning of a spree that would take decades to unravel.

Mockingbird Hill

On a December morning in 1987, a man in a black coat and cowboy hat shot receptionist Kathy Kendrick in a Russellville law office and drove off toward the next name on his list — and what Ronald Gene Simmons had already done at Mockingbird Hill was worse.

The Port Arthur Massacre

Martin Bryant, a jobless young millionaire with a childlike smile, set an alarm for the first time in his life on April 27, 1996 — then loaded an AR-15 into his yellow Volvo and drove toward Port Arthur, Tasmania.

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