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You are here: Home Quizzes True Crime Quiz: Serial Killers
May 24, 2013 10:49 am
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True Crime Quiz: Serial Killers

Posted by Kim Cantrell on August 2, 2012

Test your knowledge about only a small sampling of the serial killers who have lived among us.

Most Prolific

* Who was the Houston, Texas serial killer known as The Candy Man?
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Dean Corll was known as The Candy Man among Houston Heights residents because of the candy store he owned with his mother. See The Man With The Candy by Jack Olsen.
* Executed in 1989 by the state of Florida, this serial killer\'s victims were from the states of Washington, Utah, Florida, Colorado, Oregon, Idaho, California. Who was he?
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Ted Bundy is believed to have killed more than 30 women and young girls, including 8 year-old Ann Marie Burr of Tacoma, Washington, as detailed in Ted and Ann by Rebecca Morris.
* Who was the New York serial killer responsible for killing eleven prostitutes after being released from prison on two child murders?
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In April 1987, Arthur John Shawcross was released after serving only 14 1/2 years for the murders of 10 year-old Jack Blake and 8 year-old Karen Hill. By 1990, he had added 11 more victims to his list and earned the moniker The Genessee River Killer.


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  1. Dane Ladwig says:
    August 2, 2012 at 8:20 pm

    Yeppers!!!

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