He was the antithesis of the stereotype of a mass killer at the time.

The mass killer and kidnapper had already been to Fifth Street once.

Yellow fever, transmitted by mosquitoes, was for centuries a mass killer in much of the world.

Suddenly the nation has a mass killer it can empathize with, identify with, care for, even love.

As a mass killer, its credentials are impeccable: in the 19th and 20th centuries alone, tuberculosis was responsible for taking an estimated one billion lives.

"You think your mass killer is smarter than our mass killer?"

"I don't believe they were mass killers," she said with a smile, when asked.

A Renaissance prince, he was also a mass killer.

Today I see a physician turned mass killer, who exuded bitterness and woe.

But that should not stop American prosecutors from following the law here as they would whenever any mass killer's hideout is discovered.