Serial killers : shocking, gripping true crime stories of the most evil murderers

Serial killers : shocking, gripping true crime stories of the most evil murderers /

Serial Killers are the most notorious and disturbing of all criminals, representing the very darkest side of humanity. Yet they endlessly fascinate and continue to capture the public's attention with their strange charisma and deadly deeds. From Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy and the Moors Murder...

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Main Author: Innes, Brian, 1928-2014 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Quercus, 2017.
Edition:Updated and revised paperback edition.
Subjects:
Serial murderers
Serial murderers > Biography.
Serial murders > History.
Serial murders
Biography
Biographies
History.
True crime stories
Récits criminels.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Jack the ripper: the classic enigma (UK, 1888)
  • Herman Webster Mudgett: H.H. Holmes: death in the white city (USA, 1893-1896)
  • Bela Kiss: barrels of bodies (Hungary 1912-1914)
  • Henri Landru: the French Bluebeard (France, 1915-1919)
  • Fritz Haarmann: butcher of Hannover (Germany, 1919-1924)
  • Carl Panzram: totally unrepentant (USA, 1891-1930)
  • Peter Kürten: vampire of Düsseldorf (Germany, 1919-1930)
  • Leonard Earl Nelson: gorilla man (USA, 1926-1928)
  • Marcel Petiot: vanishing refugees (France, 1940-46)
  • John George Haigh: acid bath murderer (UK, 1944-1949)
  • William Heirens: 'for Heave's sake catch me" (USA, 1945-1946)
  • John Reginald Christie: death in 10 Rillington Place (UK, 1943-1953)
  • Edward Theodore Gein: graveyard ghoul (USA, 1947-1958)
  • Harvey Glatman: cheesecake photographer (USA, 1957-1958)
  • Albert DeSalvo: Boston Strangler
  • or not? (USA, 1962-1964)
  • Ian Brady & Mya Hindley: Moors murderers (UK, 1963-1966)
  • Lucian Staniak: red spider (Poland, 1964-1967)
  • Jeome Brudos: shoe fetishist (USA, 1968-1969)
  • Henry Lee Lucas: "I hated everybody" (USA, 1970-1983)
  • Edmund Kemper: co-ed killer (USA, 1972-1973)
  • Arthur Shawcross: Rochester rampager (USA, 1972-1990)
  • John Wayne Gacy: killer clown (USA, 1960s-1974)
  • Ted Bundy: betrayed by his bite (USA, 1974-1978)
  • David Berkowitz: Son of Sam (USA, 1976-1977)
  • Peter Sutcliffe: Yorkshire Ripper (UK, 1975-1981)
  • Dean Corll & Wayne Henley: the candyman (USA, 1973)
  • Donald Henry Gaskins (lethal Pee Wee (USA, 1975)
  • Dennis Nilsen: killing for company (UK, 1978-1983)
  • Fred & Rosemary West: house of horror (UK, 1967-1995)
  • Ken Bianchi & Angelo Buono: the Hillside Stranglers (1977-1979)
  • Richard Trenton Chase: vampire of Sacramento (USA, 1978)
  • Donald Harvey: "always a good boy" (USA, 1974-1985)
  • Wayne Williams: music-biz talent scout (USA, 1979-1981)
  • John Francis Duffy: railway rapist (UK, 1985-1988)
  • Clifford Raymond Olson: beast of British Columbia (Canada, 1980-1982)
  • Gary Ridgway: Green River man (USA, 1982-1984)
  • Genene Jones: deadly medicine (USA, 1980-1984)
  • Andrei Chikatilo : Rostov ripper (Russia, 1979-1984)
  • Leonard Lake & Charles Ng: snuff tapers (USA, 1985)
  • Richard Ramirez: night stalker (USA, 1985)
  • David & Catherine Birnie: folie à deux (Australia, 1986)
  • Paul Bernardo: finally brought to book (Canada, 1990-1993)
  • Harold Shipman: DR. Death (UK, 1970s-2004)
  • Jeffrey Dahmer: Milwaukee cannibal (USA, 1991-1994)
  • Colin Ireland: wannabe serial slayer (UK, 1993)
  • Moses Sithole: ABC murderer (South Africa, 1995)
  • Ivan Milat: backpack killer (Australia, 1989-1994)
  • Robert Pickton: pig farmer (Canada, 1983-2002)
  • Steve Wright: the Suffolk strangler (UK, 2006)

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