Serial killers : the method and madness of monsters
In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in Ancient Rome, through fifteenth-century France, up to such notorious contemporary cases as cannibal/necrophile Ed Kemper, Henry Lee Lucas, Ted Bundy, and the emergence of what he classifies as "the serial rampage killer" such as Andrew Cunanan. Exhaustively researched with transcripts of interviews with killers, and featuring up-to-date information on the apprehension and conviction of the Green River Killer and the Beltway Snipers, Vronsky's one-of-a-kind books covers every conceivable aspect of an endlessly riveting true-crime phenomenon
eBook, English, 2004
Berkley trade pbk. ed View all formats and editions
Berkley Books, New York, 2004
True crime stories
1 online resource (xx, 412 pages) : illustrations
9781101204627, 1101204621
166335047
Machine derived contents note: PART ONE
A HISTORY OF MONSTERS
1. The Postmodern Age of Serial Homicide, 1970-2000 3
2. A Brief History of Serial Homicide 42
PART TWO " THE METHOD AND MADNESS
3. Classifying Serial Killers 99
4. The Evolution of Monstrosity 147
5. The Question of Madness 241
6. Serial Killers As Children 269
7. The Serial Murderer's First Kill 286
8. The Killing Times 303
PART THREE
FIGHTING MONSTERS
9. The Art and Science of Criminal Profiling 321
10. Surviving a Serial Killer 364
Acknowledgments 385
Endnotes 386
Selected Sources 395
Index 400
English