Criminal Minds: Sociopaths, Serial Killers, and Other Deviants

by Jeff Mariotte

Overview

The authorized tie-in to the popular TV show Criminal Minds
Featuring stunning photos from the CBS series, Criminal Minds: Sociopaths, Serial Killers, and Other Deviants will give you new terrifying and fascinating insights into the mind of a criminal.
Most episodes of CBS's Criminal Minds series feature a briefing where the profiling team defines the type of criminal they are looking for by examining behavior patterns that were established in actual criminal cases. Now author Jeff Mariotte takes us deeper into the BAU process by revealing the evil behind some of the most heinous murderers, sexual predators, and psychopaths in history. In this authorized companion to the hit TV series, you'll learn how real-life criminals committed their unspeakable crimes and follow the investigators who finally tracked them down. Mariotte explains why and how profilers organize major offenders into types and why each of these perpetrators falls into a particular category.
You'll get the stories behind:

Solo serial killers, such as David Berkowitz, Zodiac, and Henry Lee Lucas

Sexual predators who preyed on women and girls, such as Dennis Rader and Gary Ridgway, and those who preyed on men and boys, such as John Wayne Gacy

Killers with famous victims, such as John Hinckley, Robert John Bardo, and Mark David Chapman

Cannibals and vampirists, such as Jeffrey Dahmer

Traveling killers, such as Ted Bundy

Female killers, such as Aileen Wuornos

Family annihilators, such as John List, Mark Barton, and the Menendez brothers

And many more

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470636251
Publisher:	Turner Publishing Company
Publication date:	08/01/2010
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	239,090
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

JEFF MARIOTTE is a mystery writer and the co-owner of Mysterious Galaxy, an independent bookstore specializing in mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He has written more than three dozen tie-in novels, including two for CSI and one for CSI: Miami and graphic novels based on both.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 First Glance 4

2 Sexual Predators: Female Victims 45

3 Sexual Predators: Male Victims 74

4 Killers on the Road 86

5 Team Killers 97

6 Killing Couples 113

7 The Family That Preys Together 121

8 The Fairer Sex 136

9 The Helpless Ones 144

10 Angels and Heroes 157

11 Killers with a Cause 166

12 Group Dynamics 183

13 Safe at Home 202

14 Celebrity Stalkers 215

15 Blood Suckers and Flesh Eaters 225

16 On Other Shores 240

17 The Strangest of the Strange 254

18 The Real Profilers 275

Bibliography 281

Photo Credits 285

Index 287