Extreme Killers: Tales of the World's Most Prolific Serial Killers
For fans of true crime, this fourth entry in the Profiles in Crime series presents history’s most “elite” serial killers—master murderers who stretched the psychic envelope and racked up the largest number of victims.
 
Historical in scope and international in breadth, this collection of true-crime stories chronicles 15 of the most infamous “extreme killers” who ever lived—those with the largest number of confirmed kills, in many cases more than 50. The subjects range from 15th-century French child killer Gilles de Rais, purportedly the model for the folk legend of “Bluebeard,” to Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Toole, who inspired the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer; to Samuel Little, America’s most prolific serial killer with 60 confirmed and 93 claimed murdered, to Mikhail Popkov, dubbed “The Werewolf” by Russian media for having slain more than 70 women between 1992 and 2010.
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Extreme Killers: Tales of the World's Most Prolific Serial Killers
For fans of true crime, this fourth entry in the Profiles in Crime series presents history’s most “elite” serial killers—master murderers who stretched the psychic envelope and racked up the largest number of victims.
 
Historical in scope and international in breadth, this collection of true-crime stories chronicles 15 of the most infamous “extreme killers” who ever lived—those with the largest number of confirmed kills, in many cases more than 50. The subjects range from 15th-century French child killer Gilles de Rais, purportedly the model for the folk legend of “Bluebeard,” to Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Toole, who inspired the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer; to Samuel Little, America’s most prolific serial killer with 60 confirmed and 93 claimed murdered, to Mikhail Popkov, dubbed “The Werewolf” by Russian media for having slain more than 70 women between 1992 and 2010.
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Extreme Killers: Tales of the World's Most Prolific Serial Killers

Extreme Killers: Tales of the World's Most Prolific Serial Killers

by Michael Newton
Extreme Killers: Tales of the World's Most Prolific Serial Killers

Extreme Killers: Tales of the World's Most Prolific Serial Killers

by Michael Newton

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For fans of true crime, this fourth entry in the Profiles in Crime series presents history’s most “elite” serial killers—master murderers who stretched the psychic envelope and racked up the largest number of victims.
 
Historical in scope and international in breadth, this collection of true-crime stories chronicles 15 of the most infamous “extreme killers” who ever lived—those with the largest number of confirmed kills, in many cases more than 50. The subjects range from 15th-century French child killer Gilles de Rais, purportedly the model for the folk legend of “Bluebeard,” to Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Toole, who inspired the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer; to Samuel Little, America’s most prolific serial killer with 60 confirmed and 93 claimed murdered, to Mikhail Popkov, dubbed “The Werewolf” by Russian media for having slain more than 70 women between 1992 and 2010.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781454939443
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Publication date: 07/13/2021
Series: Profiles in Crime , #4
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Michael Newton is the author of the Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. His more than 348 works of fiction and nonfiction include the true-crime books The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes;The Mafia at Appalachin, 1957;The Encyclopedia of Robberies, Heists, and Capers;The Gangsters Encyclopedia: The World's Most Notorious Mobs, Gangs and Villains; and The FBI Encyclopedia.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Hunting Humans ix

1 "Bluebeard": Gilles De Rais 1

2 "The Blood Countess": Erzsébet Báthory 16

3 Axe Men 37

4 "Angel Makers" 64

5 Hands of Death: Henry Lucas and Ottis Toole 73

6 "Serious Murders": Donald Gaskins 96

7 "Doing Doubles": Gerard Schaefer 118

8 "Monster of the Andes": Pedro López 143

9 "Mad Daddy": Samuel Little 150

10 "Doctor Death": Harold Shipman 158

11 Green River Killer: Gary Ridgway 188

12 Piggy Palace: Robert Pickton 198

13 "Goofy": Luis Garavito 220

14 Acid Test: Javed Iqbal 231

15 "The Werewolf": Mikhail Popkov 244

Sources 251

Index 253

Image Credits 257

About The Author 258

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