Serial Killers by ReinholdH

What fictional serial killer had his musical premiere on the London stage in 2013 and came to Broadway earlier this year? The music was written by Duncan Sheik, but also contains songs of the time period such as “True Faith” by New Order and “Hip to Be Square” by Huey Lewis and the News.

What distinction do Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly share?

Herman Webster Mudgett, alias H.H. Holmes, was one of America's first documented serial killers. He was active in Chicago in the late nineteenth century, where many victims met their end in his “murder castle” - also known as the World's Fair Hotel. Name the 2003 New York Times bestseller that revived interest in Holmes' life and crimes.

This film based on a novel inspired by prolific Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo received lackluster reviews and performed poorly at the box office, despite being produced by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman.

She died in 1849. Kathy Bates portrayed her on American Horror Story in 2013. Nicolas Cage bought her New Orleans house in 2007. What is her name?

Recently convicted serial killer Lonnie David Franklin Jr., responsible for at least 10 murders, was given what nickname due to the apparent 14-year (1988-2002) break he took from his crimes?

According to Ann Rule, author of Ted Bundy study The Stranger Beside Me, many young women erroneously claim to have narrowly escaped an encounter with the killer. Most famously, this musician and actress claimed in 1989 to have had a run-in with him roughly fifteen years earlier in New York.

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The Macdonald triad is a set of three childhood behavioral characteristics that supposedly predicts violent serial offenses later in life. Give any two of the three traits in the triad.

Twiggy Ramirez, Gidget Gein, and Madonna Wayne Gacy are all current or former members of what man's eponymous band?

Searching for her younger brother Jed, Rose Walker and her companion Gilbert end up sharing a hotel with a "Cereal Convention" - actually a gathering of serial killers. In what comic book series does this occur?

Amelia Dyer is thought to have murdered hundreds of children over 20 years during the Victorian period in England. She is perhaps the most notorious practitioner of this two word phrase that refers to taking custody of children for money.

First passed in New York, a "Son of Sam law" is a law designed to prevent criminals - serial killer or otherwise - from doing what? These laws can also extend to friends, neighbors and family members of the criminal.