Serial Killers and Mas Murderers: The Difference

Here's a photo of the infamous Erzabeth Bathory also known as The Countess Dracula, she was accused of torturing and kill hundred of girls and bathing on her victims blood. Honestly, She's my favorite killer of all killers in the history of killers and that's a lot of killers.

 Is she a serial killer or Mass murderer? What is even the difference? Well according to an article I read in Tribe.net by Anci Banci, she wrote a post about The differences between serial killers and mass murderers. She explained that a distinct difference between a serial killer and a mass murderer is the "cooling period" or the interval between killings. She added a mass murder will kill large groups of people at the same time. Examples of mass murders: Columbine High School Massacre, Virginia Tech Massacre and the Amish School Shooting. Mass murderers unlike serial killers, rarely have a sexual motive for their killings. A serial killer will kill, experience a cool down period, and sometime later (days, weeks, months) kill again. Examples of serial killers: Jack the ripper and the infamous Erzabeth Bathory, yes she is a serial killer, she couldn't have killed all of them in the same time, she has a name to uphold and people should not know about it, so she had to do it one by one.

Serial killers and Mass murderers are both dangerous and mentally ill. Though a mass murderer are often triggered by an event not related to his real problem, many of these people are carrying dissapointments, grievance and frustrations. Just like a ticking time bomb until one incident that would make them explode.

Serial killers on the other hand are suprisingly have higher IQ and most likely have a career, they also have a childhood experiences of abuse and are from broken homes, they often develop psychopatic behaviors.

To classify more  these types of killer i've encountered an article: History of Classifications of Serial Killers and Mass Murderers by Ashley Duval for forensicpsych.umwblogs.org. He listed a few points in which to classify if the person is a serial killer or mass murderer; Mass killers appear to suffer from psychosis and should be considered insane. and found little evidence of mental illness among serial killers. Serial killers, in my opinion are very smart people, they long for power, often i read stuff about serial killers having jobs as a doctor. Most serial murderers can be described as obsessive-compulsive because they normally kill according to a particular style and pattern. This is mostly true, they tend to leave a pieces for the police to solve and to somehow catch up with them, cause they wanted them to know, psychopath likes being the talk of the town.