thrill killer

thrill killer

One who derives excitement or pleasure from murdering people. I think our suspect is a thrill killer and really enjoys carrying out these violent crimes.
See also: killer, thrill
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • ripple of excitement
  • be licking (one's) lips
  • be licking your lips
  • boot
  • booted
  • the boot
  • liquidate
  • (one's) scene
  • be (not) (one's) bag
  • (one's) jam
References in periodicals archive
Kutcher is one of the witnesses who have or are scheduled to testify in the murder trial of Gargiulo, who prosecutors have described as a "serial psychosexual thrill killer" who stalked and then stabbed the victims -- all young women who lived near him.
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Defense attorney John Kolego told Foote that Gerald Donoho, who works as a night janitor, was "not a thrill killer" but simply carried on a family tradition since his family homesteaded in the Gate Creek area near Vida decades ago.
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Benoit is a thrill killer, Ray a philosopher who kills.
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Back on the streets easy prey for the thrill killer. Not safe.
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Thrill killer Archie "Mad Dog" McCafferty was flying into Britain this morning after being kicked out of Australia.
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Also performing are Las Vegas based bands, The Thrill Killers and Wicked Garden.
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The kids were exactly what I believe they were [and said] on opening statement that day, and that was that they were thrill killers. And that they took advantage of a situation and then covered for each other and pulled off probably one of the most successful conspiracies to hide their own culpability.
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Had this order been followed relentlessly, there could have been reduced chances for thrill killers to mow down five people in Quezon City just as what happened recently.
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By: May 13 the Quezon City police had arrested one of the two suspected "thrill killers." Alsaid Mindalano was said to have been identified by a witness as the motorcycle driver; he was indicted on May 14 on four counts of murder.
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The moral ugliness of the film iscompounded by the murderous ways of the sheriff Thankfully there is no attempt to make any psychological sense out of this - the family are typical thrill killers, simple psychopaths.
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Her latest book, Women Who Kill, is a profile of the sickening lives of female serial killers, including Myra Hindley, Rose West and 12 other so-called 'thrill killers', who derived sexual excitement from murder.
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Ethical hunters are not thrill killers and do not ordinarily view their game as "pests"; rather, they have a great deal of respect and even reverence for the animals they pursue.
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"Well, I'm not Jewish," he informs the caller, "but I've played one before." In fact, on one of his walls hangs a poster for Swoon, the 1992 film in which Chester portrayed Nathan Leopold, half the pair of Jewish thrill killers (and gay lovers) Leopold and Loeb.
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Meanwhile, the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) has sent a six-man team to help Quezon City police investigators go after the thrill killers.
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They range from Femme Fatales, Child Killers, Sex Killers to Kids Who Kill and Thrill Killers.
THIS BOOKS HAS GIVEN ME NIGHTMARES; He's sold nearly 1m books, but Reg McKay says this is the first to give him sleepless nights. You can read it only in the Daly Record tomorrow