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A
to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
by Harold Schechter
The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is a lighthearted but reasonably
tasteful collection of information about serial killers, by a respected
historian of crime (Harold Schechter) and the author of Human Monsters
(David Everitt). It includes individual entries devoted to the most famous
killers from all over the world, and amusing sections devoted to such topics
as black widows, bluebeards, killer couples, Lustmord, Nazi buffs, power
tools, pyromania, and trophies. There are also useful tips for further
ventures into art, movies, books, zines, music, and tourist attractions
devoted to serial killers. The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is
cross-indexed, with numerous black-and-white illustrations. -- Fiona
Webster - Amazon.com
Paperback from Pocket Books
Depraved:
The Shocking True Story of America's First Serial Killer
by Harold Schechter
Paperback from Pocket Books
The
Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed
America
by Erik Larson
Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893
Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking
the book's categorization to be sure that The Devil in the White City is
not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two
men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction,
and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor. Burnham's
challenge was immense. In a short period of time, he was forced to overcome
the death of his partner and numerous other obstacles to construct the
famous "White City" around which the fair was built. His efforts to complete
the project, and the fair's incredible success, are skillfully related
along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill Cody,
Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison. The activities of the sinister Dr.
Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around
the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the
World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the
fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality
to lure victims. Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in
one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but
it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago
are both revealed through Larson's skillful writing. --John Moe - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 464 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.50 x
9.50 x 6.50
Publisher: Crown Pub; 1st edition (February 11, )
ISBN: 0609608444
The
Jeffrey Dahmer Story : An American Nightmare (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
by Donald
A. Davis
Book Description
They smelled the foul odors. They heard the power saw
buzzing in the dead of night but neighbors never imagined the horrors happening
right next door.
The hot sultry night of July 22, 1991 was one the tenants
of the Oxford Apartments would never forget. A panic stcricken young man--a
pair of handcuffs still dangling from his wrists--ran out of Apartment
213 and told police an incredible tale of terror.
Shaking with fear, he led officers back to his captor's
lair, where they made the gruesome discovery. Inside were the body parts
of at least fifteen men--including torsos stuffed into a barrel, severed
heads in a refrigerator, and skulls boiled clean and stashed in a filing
cabinet. Tacked to the freezer were Poloroid photographs of mutilated corpses.
When investigators arrested 31-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer,
they realized they had stumbled onto a "real-life Hannibal Lecter"--a sadistic
murderer who told them he had saved a human heart "to eat later". What
could turn a handsome, former tennis player, the son of middle-class parents,
into a perverse serial killer whose unthinkable acts shocked the nation?
The Jeffrey Dahmer Story takes you into Jeffrey Dahmer's
twisted world of bizarre sexual encounters, mutilation and cannibalism--in
one of history's most appalling true crime cases.
With 8 pages of chilling photographs.
Paperback from St. Martin's Paperbacks
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Perfect
Poison: A Female Serial Killer's Deadly Medicine
by M. William Phelps
Book Description: SERIAL KILLER ON WARD C: In Northampton, Massachusetts,
at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kristen Gilbert was known as a
hardworking, dedicated nurse--so why were her patients dying? So many emergencies
and sudden deaths occurred while Kristen made her rounds on Ward C that
her colleagues jokingly called her the "Angel of Death." Yet most people
didn't suspect the horrifying truth behind the nickname: that Gilbert's
polished facade concealed a scheming, manipulative liar and narcissistic
sociopath. She sabotaged patients to strike back at staffers she didn't
like. She engaged in an obsessive adulterous affair with hospital security
guard James Perrault. When her husband objected, she tried to kill him
with a lethal injection. But nobody turned her in.
LETHAL CURE: From August 1995 through February 1996, Gilbert dealt out
wholesale death. Her victims were helpless patients who trusted her as
a caregiver, only to learn too late that she was a killer, her weapon a
drug capable of causing fatal heart attacks. But she got away with murder
until three of her fellow nurses could no longer ignore the proliferation
of deadly "coincidences" on Gilbert's watch. Investigators believe Kristen
Gilbert may have been responsible for as many as 40 deaths. As the law
closed in, she struck back, faking suicide attempts, harassing witnesses,
stalking her ex-boyfriend, and terrorizing the hospital with bomb threats.
In March 2001, after being found guilty of four counts of murder and two
counts of attempted murder, Angel of Death Kristen Gilbert was sentenced
to life imprisonment.
Mass Market Paperback from Pinnacle Books
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Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed
by Patricia Cornwell
Listed under Jack the Ripper
Through
the Window: The Terrifying True Story of Cross-Country Killer Tommy Lynn
Sells
by Diane Fanning
Book Description: Ten-Year-Old Krystal Surles Watched In Horror
As Her Best Friend Was Murdered At The Hands Of An Intruder.
Then with cold-blooded precision he brought a twelve-inch boning knife
to Krystal's throat. With a single, violent slash, he severed her windpipe
and left her for dead. Miraculously, she survived and would lead authorities
to the arrest of 35-year-old Tommy Lynn Sells, a former truck driver, carnival
worker, and cross-country drifter...
He Aspired To Become "The Worst Serial Killer Of All Time."
With no apparent motive and no common pattern to his inconceivable bloodshed,
the elusive Sells had carved his way across the country for two decades
slaughtering women, men, transients, entire families, teenagers, and even
infants with ghoulish abandon.
Through The Window is more than an investigation into a crime spree
that stunned a nation. It's an utterly terrifying plunge into the unfathomable
dark mind of a serial killer, and the heart-wrenching story of the brave
child who finally brought him to justice.
Mass Market Paperback from St. Martin's Press
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The
Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
by Michael Newton
Book Description: From Jack the Ripper to the FBI's Violent
Criminal Apprehension Program (VICAP), The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
gives readers an exhaustive overview of what is undoubtedly the most macabre
and fascinating branch of crime and modern criminology. The book details
individual cases of serial murder, law enforcement agents and their techniques,
the factors that contribute to the development of a serial killer, and
how society chooses to deal with and punish these vicious criminals. In-depth
coverage is provided on the realities of serial murder versus popular myths
depicted in film and television, key figures on both sides of the law,
pivotal cases and events, and criminal activities that have shaped law
enforcement responses.
Paperback from Facts on File, Inc.
I:
The Creation of a Serial Killer
by Jack Olsen
Book Description: In February 1990, Oregon State Police arrested
John Sosnovke and Laverne Pavlinac for the vicious rape and murder of 23-year-old
Taunja Bennet. Pavlinac had come forth and confessed, implicating her boyfriend
and producing physical evidence that linked them to the crime. Authorities
closed the case. There was just one problem. They had the wrong people...
Mass Market Paperback from St. Martin's Minotaur
I
Have Lived In The Monster : Inside the minds of the world's most notorious
serial killers
by Robert K. Ressler, Tom Shachtman
Mass Market Paperback from St. Martin's Press
Killing
for Sport: Inside the Minds of Serial Killers
by Pat Brown
Hardcover from New Millenium Pr
Murder
Most Rare: The Female Serial Killer
by Michael D. Kelleher, C. L. Kelleher
Mass Market Paperback from Dell Publishing
The
Search for the Green River Killer
by Carlton Smith, Tomas Guillen
Mass Market Paperback from Onyx Books
1991
Signature
Killers
by Robert D. Keppel, William J. Birnes
Mass Market Paperback from Pocket Books
Sins
of the Brother. The definitive story of Ivan Milat and the backpacker murders
by Mark; Kennedy, Les Whittaker
Paperback from Pan
Milat:
The full horror of the backpacker murders
by Roger Maynard
Paperback from a joint publication of M. Gee Publishing
and Price Publishing
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