Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 7
Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 7
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STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES
SECOND
EDITION
One classic mass murderer was Charles
Whitman, who in 1966 armed himself with boxes of ammunition, weapons, ropes, a
radio, and food; barricaded himself in a tower at the University of Texas at Austin;
and opened fire for ninety minutes. (See Chapter Thirteen.) The second type of
mass murder is family mass murder. If four or more family members are killed
and the perpetrator takes his own life, it is classified as a mass
murder–suicide. Without the suicide and with four or more victims, the murder
is classified as family mass murder. An example is John List, an insurance
salesman who killed his entire family in 1972. List disappeared after the
crime, and his car was found at an airport parking lot. He was located seventeen
years later following a television program describing the murders.

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