Sadistic Killers: Profiles of Pathological Predators

Acclaimed crime writer Carol Anne Davis explores the minds of sadistic killers: their childhoods, their growing pathology and horrific crimes. Knowing what some of these killers endured doesn’t even begin to excuse their crimes – but it does explain them. Davis delineates the different subgroups of sadists – for example, those who kill indiscriminately – in Britain, the US and Australia.

There are also chapters on:

• female sadists, who tend to be overlooked by the media.
• consensual sadomaso...