Cannibal Serial Killers: Profiles of Depraved Flesh-Eating Murderers
Dive inside the twisted minds of some of the most heinous serial killers in history with this true-crime trove of stories about cannibalistic murderers.
Delving deep into the twisted actions of Hannibal Lecter–type murderers, Cannibal Serial Killers profiles the depraved individuals who prolong their horrific crimes beyond the thrill of the chase to a perverse ritualized finale. More than just stomach-churning stories, this terrifying book provides precise accounts and fascinating insights into the crimes of fourteen cannibalistic killers from all over the world, including:
ALBERT FISH, who spent nine days feasting on the remains of an innocent little girl
JEFFREY DAHMER, whose refrigerator was packed with the body parts of his seventeen victims
ANDREI CHIKATILO, who brutally slayed and dismembered fifty-three people in southeastern Russia
FRITZ HAARMANN, who drank his victims' blood and sold their flesh on the black market
STANLEY BAKER, who cut out a young man's heart and devoured it while it was still beating
JOACHIM KROLL, who cooked a stew of carrots, potatoes and a small child's hand
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Cannibal Serial Killers: Profiles of Depraved Flesh-Eating Murderers
Dive inside the twisted minds of some of the most heinous serial killers in history with this true-crime trove of stories about cannibalistic murderers.
Delving deep into the twisted actions of Hannibal Lecter–type murderers, Cannibal Serial Killers profiles the depraved individuals who prolong their horrific crimes beyond the thrill of the chase to a perverse ritualized finale. More than just stomach-churning stories, this terrifying book provides precise accounts and fascinating insights into the crimes of fourteen cannibalistic killers from all over the world, including:
ALBERT FISH, who spent nine days feasting on the remains of an innocent little girl
JEFFREY DAHMER, whose refrigerator was packed with the body parts of his seventeen victims
ANDREI CHIKATILO, who brutally slayed and dismembered fifty-three people in southeastern Russia
FRITZ HAARMANN, who drank his victims' blood and sold their flesh on the black market
STANLEY BAKER, who cut out a young man's heart and devoured it while it was still beating
JOACHIM KROLL, who cooked a stew of carrots, potatoes and a small child's hand
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Cannibal Serial Killers: Profiles of Depraved Flesh-Eating Murderers

Cannibal Serial Killers: Profiles of Depraved Flesh-Eating Murderers

Cannibal Serial Killers: Profiles of Depraved Flesh-Eating Murderers

Cannibal Serial Killers: Profiles of Depraved Flesh-Eating Murderers

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Dive inside the twisted minds of some of the most heinous serial killers in history with this true-crime trove of stories about cannibalistic murderers.
Delving deep into the twisted actions of Hannibal Lecter–type murderers, Cannibal Serial Killers profiles the depraved individuals who prolong their horrific crimes beyond the thrill of the chase to a perverse ritualized finale. More than just stomach-churning stories, this terrifying book provides precise accounts and fascinating insights into the crimes of fourteen cannibalistic killers from all over the world, including:
ALBERT FISH, who spent nine days feasting on the remains of an innocent little girl
JEFFREY DAHMER, whose refrigerator was packed with the body parts of his seventeen victims
ANDREI CHIKATILO, who brutally slayed and dismembered fifty-three people in southeastern Russia
FRITZ HAARMANN, who drank his victims' blood and sold their flesh on the black market
STANLEY BAKER, who cut out a young man's heart and devoured it while it was still beating
JOACHIM KROLL, who cooked a stew of carrots, potatoes and a small child's hand

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781569759509
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Publication date: 05/10/2011
Sold by: OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED - EBKS
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Christopher Berry-Dee is the Editor of The New Criminologist and Director of the Criminology Research Centre. He has written numerous books on murderers and serial killers. He was also the research and interviewer for a 13-part TV series in the Uk entitled The Serial Killers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9

Preface 11

Introduction 14

1 A Brief History of Cannibalism- Fact and Fiction 27

2 "Uncle Fingers" Stanley Dean Baker 53

3 "The Plainfield Butcher" Edward "Ed" Theodore Gein 69

4 "Murder and Mutilation" Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer 112

5 "The Brooklyn Vampire" Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish 155

6 "The Vampire of Dusseldorf" Peter Kurten 175

7 "Uncle Joachim's Stew" Joachim Kroll 194

8 "No Such Thing as a Free Lunch" Karl Denke 204

9 "The Butcher of Berlin" Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Grossman 207

10 "The Vampire of Hanover" Friedrich "Fritz" Heinrich Karl Haarmann 209

11 "The Co-ed Killer" Edmund Emil "Big Ed" Kemper III 228

12 "The Darlington Cannibal" David Harker 245

13 "Going Dutch" Issei Sagawa 256

14 "The Vampire Killers" Tracey Avril Wigginton Lisa M. Ptaschinski 265

15 "The Rostov Ripper" Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo 283

About the Author 320

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