Serial Killers and Mass Murderers: Profiles of the World's Most Barbaric Criminals

by Nigel Cawthorne

Overview

Discover the shocking true stories of the world's most barbaric criminals from Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer to The Night Stalker and more.

Revealing portraits of the most notorious killers of our time:

• The Zodiac Killer
• Dr. Harold Shipman
• Son of Sam
• The Columbine Killers
• The Yorkshire Ripper
• Ted Bundy
• Charles Starkweather
• The Boston Strangler

Serial Killers & Mass Murderers takes you into the minds of the criminals who committed the world's most notorious and horrifying crimes. Each of the sadistic murderers profiled here was once known simply as someone's neighbor, co-worker or child. What turned them into killers? In one chilling chapter after another, this book profiles a terrifying succession of homicidal maniacs and asks the question, "What makes them tick?"

"The refrigerator contained meat, including a human heart, in plastic bags. There were three human heads in the freezer. Two more skulls were found in a pot on the stove. Another pot contained male genital organs and severed heads, and there were the remains of three male torsos in the trash."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781569755785
Publisher:	Ulysses Press
Publication date:	01/25/2007
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	229,527
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Nigel Cawthorne has 28 years of experience as a writer and editor. He has written, contributed to and edited more than sixty books on subjects as diverse as skiing, computing, finance, fashion, sex, war, politics, art, music, engineering, science, history, crime and American football. His work has also appeared in over a hundred and fifty newspapers, magazines and partworks on both sides of the Atlantic. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

Introduction 5
1. Natural Born Killers 9
2. Boston Strangler 35
3. Sniper in the Tower 41
4. The Zodiac Killer 57
5. The Family 79
6. The Moors Murderers 93
7. Ted Bundy 103
8. The Yorkshire Ripper 109
9. Son of Sam 115
10. Dennis Nilsen 131
11. The Dingo Case 155
12. The Night Stalker 165
13. Hungerford 171
14. Lesbian Vampires and Satanic Cults 181
15. Jeffrey Dahmer 193
16. The House of Horrors 201
17. Doctor Death 211
18. Columbine 235

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