The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World’s Most Terrifying Murderers

Schechter H.0-345-47200-4

The Serial Killer FilesHarold SchechterTHE DEFINITIVE DOSSIER ON HISTORY’S MOST HEINOUS!Hollywood’s make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can’t hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged, and Depraved, comes the ultimate resource on the serial killer phenomenon.Rigorously researched and packed with the most terrifying, up-to-date information, this innovative and highly compelling compendium covers every aspect of multiple murderers-from psychology to cinema, fetishism to fan clubs, “trophies” to trading cards. Discover:WHO THEY ARE: Those featured include Ed Gein, the homicidal mama’s boy who inspired fiction’s most famous Psycho, Norman Bates; Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, sex-crazed killer cousins better known as the Hillside Stranglers; and the Beanes, a fifteenth-century cave-dwelling clan with an insatiable appetite for human fleshHOW THEY KILL: They shoot, stab, and strangle. Butcher, bludgeon, and burn. Drown, dismember, and devour . . . and other methods of massacre too many and monstrous to mention here.WHY THEY DO IT: For pleasure and for profit. For celebrity and for “companionship. For the devil and for dinner. For the thrill of it, for the hell of it, and because “such men are monsters, who live . . .beyond the frontiers ofmadness.PLUS: in-depth case studies, classic killers’ nicknames, definitions of every kind of deviance and derangement, and much, much more.For more than one hundred profiles of lethal loners and killer couples, Bluebeards and black widows, cannibals and copycats- this is an indispensable, spine-tingling, eye-popping investigation into the dark hearts and mad minds of that twisted breed of human whose crimes are the most frightening . . . and fascinating.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Contents……Page 2
Dedication……Page 10
Half Title Page……Page 11
Introduction……Page 12
Origin of the Term……Page 15
Definitions……Page 16
Categories of Carnage: Serial/Mass/Spree……Page 19
Psychopaths: The Mask of Sanity……Page 25
Psychotics: The Living Nightmare……Page 27
Beyond Madness……Page 29
Ten Traits of Serial Killers……Page 31
Warning Signs……Page 35
How Smart Are Serial Killers?……Page 39
Male and Female……Page 40
Angels of Death……Page 44
Black Widows……Page 45
Deadlier Than the Male……Page 47
Black and White……Page 51
Young and Old……Page 57
Straight and Gay……Page 61
Bloodthirsty “Bi”s……Page 66
Partners in Crimes……Page 68
Folie à Deux……Page 74
Killer Couples……Page 77
The Family That Slays Together……Page 85
Married with Children……Page 88
Bluebeards……Page 91
Work and Play……Page 98
Uncivil Servants……Page 99
Killer Cops……Page 101
Medical Monsters……Page 105
Nicknames……Page 110
Serial Killers International……Page 115
Serial Murder: Old as Sin……Page 131
Grim Fairy Tales……Page 133
Serial Slaughter Through the Ages……Page 137
Lydia Sherman……Page 183
Belle Gunness……Page 185
H. H. Holmes……Page 189
Albert Fish……Page 192
Earle Leonard Nelson……Page 196
Edward Gein……Page 198
Harvey Murray Glatman……Page 202
John Wayne Gacy……Page 205
Gary Heidnik……Page 207
Jeffrey Dahmer……Page 210
Perversions……Page 214
The Man Who Invented Sadism……Page 215
Science Looks at Sadism……Page 217
Wilhelm Stekel……Page 219
de River and Reinhardt……Page 221
Disciples of De Sade……Page 222
Dominance……Page 224
Fetishism……Page 226
Transvestism……Page 228
Vampirism……Page 231
Cannibalism……Page 234
Necrophilia……Page 239
Pedophilia……Page 243
Gerontophilia……Page 247
The World’s Worst Pervert……Page 249
Atavism……Page 253
Brain Damage……Page 255
Child Abuse……Page 257
Mother Hate……Page 260
Bad Seed……Page 261
Mean Genes……Page 262
Adoption……Page 263
Fantasy……Page 264
Bad Books, Malignant Movies, Vile Videos……Page 268
Pornography……Page 271
Profit……Page 273
Celebrity……Page 277
Copycats……Page 279
The Devil Made Me Do It……Page 284
Triggers……Page 285
Hunting Grounds……Page 286
Prey……Page 290
Targets of Opportunity……Page 292
Snares……Page 294
“Wanted: Well-Built Man for Slaughter”……Page 296
Signature, Ritual, MO……Page 298
Methods……Page 300
Rippers……Page 301
Stranglers……Page 305
Ax Murderers……Page 307
Poisoners……Page 309
Shooters……Page 312
Taunts……Page 319
Escalation……Page 325
Torture……Page 327
Trophies……Page 329
Disposal……Page 332
Profiling……Page 339
Origins……Page 340
The Mind Hunters……Page 343
How It Works……Page 344
Capture……Page 347
Psychics……Page 351
Suicide……Page 353
Punishment……Page 354
NGRI (Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity)……Page 358
Unsolved……Page 359
Fun with Serial Killers……Page 368
Art……Page 370
Music……Page 381
Film……Page 385
Literature……Page 389
Humor……Page 392
Murderbilia……Page 394
Tourist Spots……Page 397
Groupies……Page 400
Internet Resources……Page 401
Lethal Lives: a True-Crime Bibliography……Page 403
About the Author……Page 420
Also by Harold Schechter……Page 421
Copyright……Page 422
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