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thrill killer

noun

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  1. A murderer who is motivated by a strong personal desire to have a very exciting…

    A murderer who is motivated by a strong personal desire to have a very exciting experience.

    • New York City's teen-aged thrill killer of 1945 was Lena Theresa Nienstedt, a whisky-drinking factory girl of 16. She carried a small hatchet in her handbag.
    • [H]is best-known performances were two of his earliest: as a preppie thrill-killer in Hitchcock’s “Rope” in 1948, and as a tennis player wrongly suspected of murder in “Strangers on a Train” in 1951.

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