Answer Correctly to Save Your Life on This Serial Killers Quiz and Don’t Get Murdered!

Aliee Chan

Some things are too scary to be real, too insane to be plausible… and then there’s serial killers. Murderers who intentionally take lives for their own individually disturbing reasons. True Crime as a genre has received a ton of attention lately, so we’re betting a ton of you think that you’re suddenly experts on serial killers. You’re also 100% convinced Adnan Syed didn’t do it. Or didn’t he? If you don’t know who he is, you may be in over your head with this quiz.

Across the globe, all throughout time, serial killers have become urban legends, but do you know what they really did? In detail? If you do, how do you sleep at night? There’s tons of documentaries and books covering mass murderers and serial killers, but how does your knowledge hold up? Put your amateur detective hobby to the test and find out if you’re truly an expert on serial killers.

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Once upon a time, there was a serial killer. They called him "The Chessboard Killer." How did he get this nickname?

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He left a King chess piece in the palms of his victims.
He gave taunting clues to where his victims were buried using chess-square moves.
He was a chess champion as a child.
His goal was to kill 64 people, the number of squares on a chessboard.
He wrote cryptic notes in his victims’ blood on chessboards after he killed them.

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Answer Correctly to Save Your Life on This Serial Killers Quiz and Don’t Get Murdered!

Once upon a time, there was a serial killer. They called him "The Chessboard Killer." How did he get this nickname?

Which one of these famous serial killers had the unusual vocation of "party clown"?

An unfortunate fact about female serial killers is that a lot of them are known for murdering babies and newborns. Which killer actually victimized the elderly?

Jean-Claude Romand killed his whole family for what reason?

Which of the following statements is horrifyingly true about Jeffrey Dahmer?

Maria Swanenburg was a serial killer in the early 1880's in the Netherlands. See if you can figure out how she preferred to kill her victims.

This serial killer inspired the villains in American Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre thanks to his um, repurposing of victims' remains and intensely troubled past. What's his name?

Who has the distinction of being known as America's first known serial killer?

Why so serious? Probably because murder is a serious crime. But, speaking of jokers, how did the Happy Face Killer get his name?

Brazil's Pedro Rodriguez Filho has a disturbing and unusually high murder tally, even for a serial killer. What's his estimated total body count?

In Italy, Leonarda Cianciulli went on a killing spree, occasionally turning her victims into tea cakes and soap. She believed they were human sacrifices for what purpose?

David Berkowitz was a serial killer that also went by the self-appointed nickname "Son of Sam." Who's Sam?

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Once upon a time, there was a serial killer. They called him "The Chessboard Killer." How did he get this nickname?

Which one of these famous serial killers had the unusual vocation of "party clown"?

An unfortunate fact about female serial killers is that a lot of them are known for murdering babies and newborns. Which killer actually victimized the elderly?

Jean-Claude Romand killed his whole family for what reason?

Which of the following statements is horrifyingly true about Jeffrey Dahmer?

Maria Swanenburg was a serial killer in the early 1880's in the Netherlands. See if you can figure out how she preferred to kill her victims.

This serial killer inspired the villains in American Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre thanks to his um, repurposing of victims' remains and intensely troubled past. What's his name?

Who has the distinction of being known as America's first known serial killer?

Why so serious? Probably because murder is a serious crime. But, speaking of jokers, how did the Happy Face Killer get his name?

Brazil's Pedro Rodriguez Filho has a disturbing and unusually high murder tally, even for a serial killer. What's his estimated total body count?

In Italy, Leonarda Cianciulli went on a killing spree, occasionally turning her victims into tea cakes and soap. She believed they were human sacrifices for what purpose?

David Berkowitz was a serial killer that also went by the self-appointed nickname "Son of Sam." Who's Sam?

Last question - how would you rate this quiz?

What did you get? Let us know in the comments!

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