The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: A Study of the Chilling Criminal Phenomenon from the Angels of Death to the Zodiac Killer (Facts on File Crime Library)

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By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Trabalhando da mesma forma que uma página da Wikipedia, a escrita rasa e aparentemente sem propósito, além de apenas mostrar as atrocidades sangrentas que foram feitas por assassinos em série como numa atração de parque de diversão, é um insulto à todos os psicanalistas e psiquiatras que estudam esses casos. The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is the most comprehensive set of its kind in the history of true crime publishing. I thought that their minds are so creative and that there is no way in hell these events could be remotely true in real life.

Only about 300 pages are dedicated to the main content, the rest are lengthy index, appendices, etc. There are also lesser known serial killers, covering many countries around the world, so broad is the range. I raised the question with Better World Books and although they could not supply a hardcover version they were extremely generous in making up for the descepency.In addition to the encyclopedia entries, there are also appendices on "Solo Killers," "Team Killers," and "Unresolved Cases," plus an extensive bibliography. Even so, beyond the 240 serial killers the author has chosen to profile in the main body of the book, "The remainder of cases known at this writing are presented in a detailed appendix, further subdivided into sections for solo killers, those who murder with accomplices, and cases presently unsolved. Also, In May 1996, Chicago television news anchor Bill Kurtis received video tapes made at Stateville Correctional Center in 1988 from an anonymous attorney. The book covers all kinds of killers, from solo killers - like the Son of Sam, to unresolved cases such as the Zodiac, this book has it all!

More than 240 serial killers are profiled in The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers but many more are included in the extensive appendices that Newton has prepared for the book. Renowned for his true-crime writing, he is the author of the nonfiction books Fatal, Fiend, Bestial, Deviant, Deranged, Depraved, and, with David Everitt, The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. If you want to know just the facts about all these crimes, this book if definitely one to have on your shelf! With a worrying number of them living in our communities, working alongside us at our places of employment and sharing the same spaces where we spend time with our families, serial killers are just another neighbor that we barely think about. Some evenings, Vera liked to sit among the coffins in an armchair and enjoy the company of her adoring beaux.

The entries include Ted Bundy, the Candyman Dean Corll, Angel of Death killer Donald Harvey, the ABC Killer, and the Bodies in the Barrels Murders.

Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Unfortunately rather than being hardcover as described at time of sale, it was a paperback but it is in good condition . Not always axe-wielding madmen, they could be anyone you meet-your neighbor, your colleague, or even your partner. Written and compiled by Susan Hall, the four-volume set has more than 1600 entries of male and female serial killers from around the world.Michael Newton (born 1951) is an American author best known for his work on Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan series. Filled with page after page of details on thousands of the world's most prolific serial killers, as well of ones you will learn of for the first time.