Immediately this case presented as if it were a spree killer, six murders in the space of 27 hours.

Four killings in less than two weeks, in different states, seemed more like a cross-country spree killer than a serial killer.

Olivia Trelawney was the right sex and age for the Park Rapist, but totally wrong for the role of spree killer.

There was also an entire shelf of nonfiction devoted to the lives of serial and spree killers.

"A spree killer, back in the eighties," he said.

Normally such an abnormality of four misses would constitute the misanthropy of serial or spree killers but Gabriele did not feel much misanthropy.