What is the most people killed by a serial killer in a single day?

Answer 1

Occasionally a serial killer will kill more than one victim, usually in a 24-hour period. But I couldn't find a killer that killed more than two at a time. Jack The Ripper stabbed two victims barely an hour apart. Ted Bundy kidnapped and murdered two young women, just hours apart on the same day. But Bundy murdered two victims at the same time (just minutes apart) in a soriority house in Florida. In California Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris picked up two teen-aged girls hitchhiking and killed them simultaneously. In 19th century Chicago HH Holmes (real name H. Mudget) killed two children within a very short period of time. It is entirely possible that a serial killer has killed more than two, I just couldn't find the information.

Serial killers differs from spree killers. They deed is not to kill a number of victims. The purpose vary in the persons but one victim is enough to satisty the need. Serial killers take time to rid themselves of the body parts after having had tortured, butchered and rape the victim alive or dead to satisty the sick need of the serial killer. On the 30 September 1888 Jack killed two victims, this itself doesn't usually happen in the serial murder world - Bundy did it at Seattle and Florida, Kemper and DeSalvo did it, to name a few. The first victim though, Elizabeth Stride, was not mutilated, suggesting that Jack was interrupted and he could not get the sexual gratification that he needed, so he then killed Catherine Eddowes and mutilated her. The second thing is that Marie Kelly, the last victim, was killed indoors. Serial killers often tend to change part of their MO, where they kill their victim and what type of person they kill; they do not however tend to change how they kill their victim - say cutting their throat and then mutilation. So Jack changed where he killed his next victim, not in the East End streets where an increased police presence was making it dangerously hard for him but indoors.