Deck 9: The Female Serial Murderer

Question 1

Regardless of gender, homicide usually involves an offender and a victim who are _____ to each other.

A)strangers
B)acquainted or related
C)unknown
D)opposed

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following statements is correct?

A)Since the turn of the 20th century the number of victims per case killed by female serial offenders has been fluctuating.
B)Most female offenders were employed outside the home during the course of their killings.
C)Unlike their male counterparts, about one third of female offenders were black.
D)Females tend to kill more for revenge than any other motive.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

According to the FBI, who was the first documented female serial killer?

A)Nannie Hazel Doss
B)Linda Sue Jones
C)Aileen Wuornos
D)Mary Beth Tinning

Answer 3

C

Question 4

According to the FBI, which of the following would best "fit" the definition of serial killer?

A)Mary Beth Tinning
B)Kristen Gilbert
C)Marie Hilley
D)Aileen Wuornos

Question 5

She was a medical doctor in the Auschwitz death camps who killed children with oil and a surgical anesthetic.She removed organs and limbs from her victims.

A)Linda Jones
B)Terri Rachals
C)Herta Oberheuser
D)Christine Falling

Question 6

Which of the following statements is correct?

A)Female offenders generally target specific age groups.
B)The most common method used by female offenders to kill their victims is suffocation.
C)The most common motive reported by female offenders for killing victims was a combination of motives.
D)Most female offenders acted alone.

Question 7

Which of the following is false of female serial killers?

A)Average age is 40.
B)Most never married.
C)Most of them were unemployed or listed no occupation.
D)They tend to be viewed as anomalies, aberrations in female homicide patterns.

Question 8

Who are the "quiet killers"?

A)female serial killers
B)persons who kill with poisons
C)persons who kill family members
D)male hospital orderlies

Question 9

This offender admitted to having tried to kill two previous husbands in order to collect insurance.The day after she was sentenced to 20 years in prison, she married again in a ceremony performed by the same judge who sentenced her.

A)Linda Sue Jones
B)Betty J.Neumar
C)Mary Beth Tinning
D)Aileen Wuornos

Question 10

This offender, a Texas nurse, was continually employed in a hospital long after numerous complaints and charges that she was injuring the children in her ward.

A)Mary Beth Tinning
B)Genene Jones
C)Kathleen Heide
D)Herta Oberheuser

Question 11

In the Heckert and Ferraiolo study of college students, it was found that perceptions of female serial killers did not include _____.

A)use of brutal torture techniques
B)use of a gun to kill victims
C)experience with extreme childhood/family trauma
D)distinct mental illness

Question 12

Among serial killers who had at least one partner and traveled from state to state, a _______proportion involved female offenders.

A)significantly high
B)moderate
C)small
D)median

Question 13

Female serial killers were most likely to be _____ in their mobility.

A)traveling
B)local
C)place-specific
D)regional

Question 14

Heckert and Ferraiolo (1996)conducted a study of college students to examine perceptions of female serial killers.They discovered that _____.

A)students thought female serial killers would be in their 30s and slovenly
B)students thought female serial killers would be insane
C)students thought female serial killers would be quite attractive
D)students thought female serial killers would have a criminal record and be adept at using poisons

Question 15

Females represent what percentage of all serial killers in Hickey's study?

A)8
B)15
C)26
D)34

Question 16

All of Aileen Wuornos's victims were between the ages of:

A)25 and 35
B)40 and 55
C)40 and 65
D)55 and 65

Question 17

Which of the following is true of U.S.female serial killers?

A)Most killed children, not adults.
B)Most killed at least one elderly person.
C)Few killed from all age groups.
D)When adults were killed they were more likely to be female victims.

Question 18

Wolfgang noted a preponderance of killings among the _____, where interpersonal violence was more "acceptable":

A)lower socioeconomic classes
B)higher socioeconomic classes
C)middle classes
D)extremely wealthy

Question 19

Since 1975, female serial killers have been more likely to target which type of victim?

A)family
B)acquaintances
C)strangers
D)family and acquaintances

Question 20

In the case of _____ victims, some offenders took years to systematically kill each one.

A)husband
B)child
C)sibling
D)acquaintance

Question 21

Women who commit multiple murders typically use methods comparable to their male counterparts.

Question 22

_____ was popular for hundreds of years as a method of murder.

Question 23

Female serial killers tend to be typical in terms of female criminality.

Question 24

Which of the following statements is correct?

A)Female serial killers tend to kill over a longer period of time than their male counterparts.
B)Serial killing is highly correlated to regional variations.
C)Most serial offenders kill in at least two or more states.
D)Most victims of serial killers are murdered in or very close to their homes.

Question 25

Since 1975, the number of _____ female offenders has appeared to have dropped considerably, while their male counterparts have remained about the same.

A)traveling
B)local
C)place-specific
D)gender-specific

Question 26

When family members are the victims of female serial killers _____ are the primary targets.

A)children
B)siblings
C)parents
D)husbands

Question 27

According to some researchers, mothers who commit filicide also _____.

A)try to kill their husbands
B)kill themselves
C)are using psychotropic medications
D)attempt suicide

Question 28

Women who kill rarely do so as a result of domestic conflicts and tend to kill multiple times.

Question 29

Most female serial murderers hold skilled occupations.

Question 30

_____ killers, common among female offenders, repeatedly murdered their victims in the same location.

Question 31

The annual number of victims of female serial murderers is not as high as male serial murderers.

Question 32

Which of the following used rat poison laced with arsenic to kill at least four of her husbands, her mother, two children, and several other relatives?

A)Terry Rachals
B)Christine Falling
C)Nannie Doss
D)Genene Jones

Question 33

As mentioned earlier, many victims play a prominent role in their own demise by _____ the encounter with the offender.

Question 34

The orientation of criminological research focuses primarily on _____ criminality.

Question 35

The primary single motivation by U.S.female serial murderers to kill is:

A)sexual
B)trauma
C)money
D)power

Question 36

Lombroso considered the female offender to be _____.

A)insane.
B)physically fairly similar to the male offender in facial appearance.
C)psychologically similar to the male offender.
D)psychologically more cruel and vicious than the male offender.

Question 37

According to your text female serial killers are most likely to be _____.

A)sent to death row/executed
B)given time/life in prison
C)never apprehended
D)confined to mental hospital

Question 38

Who were the "poison eaters"?

A)Victims who were given poison by females serial killers.
B)People who deliberately ingested arsenic.
C)People who ingested potassium chloride to improve their physical appearance.
D)Nurses who over time fed poison to their patients and some to themselves to conceal their crimes.

Question 39

In earlier decades of American history, _____ was not considered a justification or an explanation for female homicide.

Question 40

Obese, epileptic, and abused, this female serial killer experienced a much traumatized childhood.She admitted to smothering to death five small children in her care so "no one would hear them scream."

A)Nancy Hazel Doss
B)Terri Rachals
C)Genene Jones
D)Christine Falling