By Harold Schechter
THE DEFINITIVE file ON HISTORY’S such a lot HEINOUS! Hollywood’s make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can’t carry a candle to genuine lifestyles monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and rankings of others who've terrorized, tortured, and terminated their method throughout civilization through the a while. Now, from the much-acclaimed writer of Deviant, Deranged , and wicked, comes the final source at the serial killer phenomenon. conscientiously researched and choked with the main terrifying, up to date details, this cutting edge and hugely compelling compendium covers each element of a number of murderers—from psychology to cinema, fetishism to fan golf equipment, “trophies” to buying and selling playing cards. become aware of: WHO they're: these featured comprise Ed Gein , the homicidal mama’s boy who encouraged fiction’s most famed Psycho , Norman Bates; Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi , sex-crazed killer cousins higher often called the Hillside Stranglers; and the Beanes , a fifteenth-century cave-dwelling extended family with an insatiable urge for food for human flesh HOW THEY KILL: They shoot, stab, and strangle. Butcher, bludgeon, and burn. Drown, dismember, and eat . . . and different tools of bloodbath too many and giant to say the following. WHY THEY DO IT: For excitement and for revenue. For megastar and for “companionship.” For the satan and for dinner. For the fun of it, for the hell of it, and since “such males are monsters, who reside . . . past the frontiers of madness.” PLUS: in-depth case experiences, vintage killers’ nicknames, definitions of each type of deviance and derangement, and lots more and plenty, even more. For multiple hundred profiles of deadly loners and killer undefined, Bluebeards and black widows, cannibals and copycats— this can be an essential, spine-tingling, eye-popping research into the darkish hearts and mad minds of that twisted breed of human whose crimes are the main scary . . . and engaging.
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Like other compulsive killers who continue to commit their horrors even while under official scrutiny, Nurse Jones kept right on going. Resigning from Bexar in March 1982, she joined the staff of the Kerr County clinic. Almost immediately, Kerr found itself plagued with a rash of inexplicable medical emergencies involving young children, who were seized with violent respiratory attacks while undergoing routine checkups. Once again, the link between these events and Genene Jones was impossible to ignore, particularly when an incriminating bottle of muscle relaxant turned up in her possession.
As children, they suffer significant abuse—sometimes psychological, sometimes physical, often sexual. Such brutal mistreatment instills them with profound feelings of humiliation and helplessness. 7. Because of their resentment toward their distant, absent, or abusive fathers, they have a great deal of trouble with male authority figures. Because they were dominated by their mothers, they have a powerful hostility toward women. 8. They manifest psychiatric problems at an early age and often spend time in institutions as children.
The first two proceedings ended in mistrials, the third with her acquittal. ” Deadlier Than the Male “The female of the species is more deadly than the male,” wrote Rudyard Kipling. Anyone who doubts that female psychopaths can be as lethal as any man should consider the following cases: Marie de Brinvilliers (1630–1676) The spoiled, sexually promiscuous daughter of a prominent Parisian family, Marie murdered her father, two brothers, and as many as fifty other victims with a poison that she secretly tested on unwary patients at a Parisian pauper hospital.