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In addition, as mentioned, there are several sub-types of these killers that fit into the above categories. If rape is involved, it is not, like a Hedonistic killer, motivated by lust, but as another means of dominating the victim. Often (though not always) the type who were mistreated or abused as children, they are driven more by insecurity or rage than by any pleasure they might get out of killing, though that might eventually play a part. Power/Control - These murderers kill because it makes them feel powerful.Women serial killers are usually comfort killers, though not all comfort killers are women. Comfort/profit killers are the type who kill to maintain or fund a life of luxury, or otherwise for money hitmen and assassins fall into this category, but it usually refers to cases of fraud, embezzlement, or robbery that involves killing somebody. The first two kill principally because they enjoy it lust-based killers get sexual satisfaction out of murder, while thrill-based ones simply find it exciting. Hedonistic - Someone who kills for lust, thrill, or comfort/profit.Vigilante killers are a sub-type of this. Though they may be deluded, they are not psychotic like the Visionary killer, having a rough grasp on reality.

Mission Based - The killer believes that their actions are for the greater good, or in the service of some higher purpose, because they are performing some kind of social, political, philosophical, or religious service, generally targeting people they blame for society's ills, or view as sinful, distasteful, or dangerous.The Insanity Defense will usually only apply to this type (though even this only counts if their mental illness impaired their sense of right and wrong), and as such if a killer is going for that defense, they will usually claim to be such-this very rarely works in Real Life, and in fact is very rarely attempted, probably because in practice there is only so much difference between being locked up in a jail cell for life for multiple murders, and being locked in an insane asylum for life for the same.

Tends to result from some kind of trauma and/or a mental illness like schizophrenia. They might believe God or Satan, or simply voices, are telling them to kill, or that killing will prevent some kind of disaster.

Visionary - The killer suffers a break from reality, delusions, and/or hallucinations, that compel them to murder.

Real Life serial killers are usually divided into 4 categories, and fictional killers tend to fall into one or more of these categories as well, if not by design, then by their nature. someone murders an entire family in their home), that is mass murder, though mass murderers can and do become serial killers if they act multiple times. If numerous people are killed in a single incident (e.g. The minimum death toll to be classified as a serial killer is 3-5 people, providing they were killed in separate incidents over a period of more than 30 days. This is their "cooling off" period, when they temporarily lose the compulsion to kill, and distinguishes them from Spree Killers, who kill in much more regular intervals of weeks or days, if they don't simply go on a murderous rampage that usually ends only when someone captures or kills them. A Serial Killer is defined as someone who commits multiple murders, out of some kind of mental or sexual compulsion, in separate incidents with at least a few days in between killings.