KnowraMass murderLinked fromLinked fromThe 16 pages that link to Mass murder, each with the reason it gives.All 16Related 1Narrower topic 6Compared with 9Serial murderCompared with: Its killings occur together rather than in separate events over time.Copycat crimeNarrower topic: Copycat crimes can include mass killings, though most mass murders are not necessarily imitative.Mass shootingCompared with: It requires deaths, unlike definitions of mass shooting that count multiple people shot.School shootingRelated: Studies compare school shootings with other forms of multiple-victim killing.Serial killerCompared with: Its killings occur within one event rather than in separate episodes over time.Anders Behring BreivikNarrower topic: The term describes the scale of the killings without specifying their political motive.John Wayne GacyCompared with: Gacy’s killings occurred over years, unlike the single-event pattern associated with mass murder.Peoples TempleCompared with: Many Jonestown victims, including children, were killed rather than choosing to die.Jeffrey DahmerCompared with: Unlike Dahmer’s serial murders, mass murder concentrates killings in a single episode.Amok syndromeCompared with: Amok has sometimes been used to describe mass violence, but a syndrome label does not explain an event by itself.Charles WhitmanNarrower topic: The attack belongs to a broader phenomenon whose motives and causes vary across cases.École Polytechnique massacreNarrower topic: This broader category captures the scale of the killings but not their gendered targeting.Luis GaravitoCompared with: Unlike a mass murder, Garavito’s killings occurred in separate incidents over time.Pedro Rodrigues FilhoCompared with: Rodrigues Filho’s crimes were described as killings across separate events, not one mass killing.William UnekNarrower topic: Unek’s attacks are remembered as mass killings rather than ordinary police violence.Woo Bum-kon incidentNarrower topic: The incident became one of the deadliest mass killings in South Korean history.
KnowraMass murderLinked fromLinked fromThe 16 pages that link to Mass murder, each with the reason it gives.All 16Related 1Narrower topic 6Compared with 9Serial murderCompared with: Its killings occur together rather than in separate events over time.Copycat crimeNarrower topic: Copycat crimes can include mass killings, though most mass murders are not necessarily imitative.Mass shootingCompared with: It requires deaths, unlike definitions of mass shooting that count multiple people shot.School shootingRelated: Studies compare school shootings with other forms of multiple-victim killing.Serial killerCompared with: Its killings occur within one event rather than in separate episodes over time.Anders Behring BreivikNarrower topic: The term describes the scale of the killings without specifying their political motive.John Wayne GacyCompared with: Gacy’s killings occurred over years, unlike the single-event pattern associated with mass murder.Peoples TempleCompared with: Many Jonestown victims, including children, were killed rather than choosing to die.Jeffrey DahmerCompared with: Unlike Dahmer’s serial murders, mass murder concentrates killings in a single episode.Amok syndromeCompared with: Amok has sometimes been used to describe mass violence, but a syndrome label does not explain an event by itself.Charles WhitmanNarrower topic: The attack belongs to a broader phenomenon whose motives and causes vary across cases.École Polytechnique massacreNarrower topic: This broader category captures the scale of the killings but not their gendered targeting.Luis GaravitoCompared with: Unlike a mass murder, Garavito’s killings occurred in separate incidents over time.Pedro Rodrigues FilhoCompared with: Rodrigues Filho’s crimes were described as killings across separate events, not one mass killing.William UnekNarrower topic: Unek’s attacks are remembered as mass killings rather than ordinary police violence.Woo Bum-kon incidentNarrower topic: The incident became one of the deadliest mass killings in South Korean history.