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Their crimes span the globe, but one thing unites them: They are sixteen of the twentieth century's most notorious serial killers. In this well-researched volume, discover their motives and what made them tick. Walk the path of the investigators who broke their cases and listen to the killers' own words. All of them made their communities tremble in fear. They include:
Johann Otto Hoch, who moved to America from Germany in the 1890s and married
...In 1982, the body of Wendy Coffield is discovered floating near the sandy shore of Washington's Green River. Authorities have...
From Victorian era graveyards to a rented room in Paris to an isolated Indian farm and the California hills, the shocking murders collected in this true crime anthology span the century and the continents. The motivations are just as varied: sex, greed, bloodlust, hatred, and...
Their monikers have become part of the true crime lexicon: among them, the Moors Murders; the Hillside Strangler; Killer Clown; Son of Sam; the Love Slave Killers; the Scorecard Killer; and the BTK Strangler. On a scale of evil, they are the world's worst serial murderers with a propensity...
From Gilles de Rais' castle in fifteenth-century France to "the Bloody Benders'" eighteenth-century Kansas farm to Jeffrey Dahmer's quiet apartment in twentieth-century Milwaukee, history is littered with serial murderers whose first impulse was to take a life. For some,...
The Jack the Ripper case has never been solved - the killer remains a blood-spattered silhouette. Although 'Jack' as an entity was almost certainly invented by an unscrupulous journalist, he became an archetype - decked in the top hat and cloak of a Victorian melodrama villain, stalking the fog-wreathed streets of the old East End. The numerous Ripper
...The Apostle's pursuit of women he considers unworthy explodes into a nightmare of horror for City Horticulturist Wendy Coleman. Although she rationalizes otherwise, he makes her feel somewhat responsible for the terror raining down on her. As the Apostle's net grows closer, Wendy and Detective Shawn Flannery devise a plan that leads to a showdown with the Apostle's evil forces. Will their plan risk Wendy's life or the newfound love she shares with
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