Serial Killers

by Blundell, Nigel; Stone, Michael, Dr.

• ISBN13: 9781845631185
• ISBN10: 1845631188
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-10
• Publisher: Wharncliffe

Summary

On an internationally acknowledged 'Scale of Evil', these are the world's worst serial killers. The qualifications for entry to this list of the vilest criminals of all time are a propensity for sadism, torture and murder without a shred of remorse.Using expert evidence, this book looks behind the shocking headlines and delves into the minds of monsters. What drove them to crime? What turned seemingly ordinary members of society into sick slayers. How did they self-justify their heinous deeds? And, quite simply, how did they get away with murder?Included in this catalogue of the world's most evil killers are men who committed crimes so monstrous that they almost defy belief yet to their neighbours and work colleagues seemed quite normal.Dennis Rader was a respected pillar of society yet set out on nightly killing sprees. David Parker Ray was just an 'average working guy' but had a torture chamber in his backyard. Fred and Rose West raised a large extended family yet violently abused and murdered their own children.These are examples of the killers who sank to the darkest depths of depravity. Find out what made them such monsters in 'Serial Killers: The World's Most Evil'.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Is this man the most evil serial killer of modern times?	p. 1
'House of Horrors' where children were tortured to death	p. 11
'Hi, I'm Ted,' was chat-up line of the slick, sick charmer	p. 19
Executions in the Australian Bush by the 'Backpack Killer'	p. 29
Smell of death led police to morgue of the 'Killer Clown'	p. 39
Young girls starved to death in killer's secret dungeon	p. 45
Sick lust of the vile couple who went hunting for virgins	p. 51
Kidnappers who garrotted teen victims with wire and pliers	p. 57
Monster(s) of Florence: Five men wrongly jailed for murders that are still a mystery	p. 65
'America's first serial killer' could have claimed 200 victims	p. 69
Mother and son 'grifters' were partners in countless crimes	p. 75
Poisoner watched as family and friends writhed in agony	p. 81
Mysterious 'Hillside Stranglers' were vicious cousins in crime	p. 87
Mother who ordered her sons to burn their sister alive	p. 93
'Bind, Torture, Kill' taunt of killer who bragged of his crimes	p. 99
'Chessboard Killer' disposed of his victims in a city's sewers	p. 105
Couple who kidnapped 'slaves' and buried victim alive	p. 113
Kidnap killer collected a harem he kept chained in basement	p. 117
Blunders that freed 'woman hater' to become a serial slayer	p. 123
'Moors Murders': crimes against children sickened a nation	p. 127
Sexual mutilation was sick trademark of the 'Scorecard Killer'	p. 133
'Snuff movies' sideline of the killers who filmed victims' agony	p. 139
Girls lured to parties at pig farm that became a charnel house	p. 149
'I prowl the streets for tasty meat,' wrote 'Son of Sam'	p. 155
Students stalked by knife-wielding campus killer	p. 165
Angels of Death: Cover-ups and foul-ups hid an epidemic of hospital slayings	p. 171
Doctors of Death: Britain's most prolific serial killer left 24-year trail of corpses	p. 181
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