Thrill Killer

A Thrill Killer is a person who commits murder, not because of mental instability, the need for sexual satisfaction, or because they have any animosity for or sometimes even know the victim, but rather they want to feel the sheer excitement of killing people. The term thrill killer is usually associated with spree killers.

Criminal Minds
Some notable thrill killers include:


 * Vincent Perotta ("Natural Born Killer") - A prolific serial killer and part-time hitman who killed hundreds of victims. Those most of the murders were mob hits, the remainder of the victims were killed only out of pure pleasure, without any evidence of animosity.
 * The Mulford Family ("Open Season") - A family of killers who kidnap motorists and then release them into the wild. They then hunt them down like animals using bows and arrows and enjoy the rush of the hunt. Brothers Paul and Johnny did not know thier victims, and did not seem to have any animosity for them, therefore can only be classified as thrill killers.
 * 23rd Street Killers ("True Night") - A Los Angeles-based gang who killed the fiancee of vigilante Jonny McHale for the thrill and excitement of it. They presumably also killed other civilians, without any animosity for any of their victims.
 * Ryan Phillips ("3rd Life") - A high school dropout who, together with his accomplices Doug and Taylor, raped and tortured a girl to death for fun. There is no evidence that he held any animosity towards her. He then tried to do the same thing to the girl's best friend but was stopped by her father.
 * Norman Hill ("The Road Warrior") - A disgruntled, white-collar office worker who began committing a series of "road rage" murders with a modified shotgun. He committed the murders in order to get the same high he got from his first attempted murder, although he did not seem to have any animosity for his victims.
 * Turner's Group ("Hopeless") - A gang of three construction workers who were responsible for the killing and torturing of several people, of which they randomly chose. Their goal in these murders were about committing pure violence simply for the fun of it; they did not seem to hold any feelings of animosity towards any of the victims.
 * Raymond Donovan and Sydney Manning ("The Thirteenth Step") - A pair of lovers who were both molested by their fathers and as a result amassed a lot of anger. They took out this anger by dedicating the former part of their spree killing to murdering several people at gas stations (and, in one case, attendants of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting). However, they did not seem to have any animosity for most of the people they killed.

Real World

 * Robert Thompson and Jon Venables
 * Lindsey Beckett and Leslie Camilleri - The Bega Schoolgirl Murderers
 * Victor Sayenko, Igor Suprunyunk, and Alexander Hanzha - The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs