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Serial killers : the method and madness of monsters

Serial killers : the method and madness of monsters

Vronsky, Peter.
Book 2004

"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...

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Psychology, Pathological
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ISBN:
0425196402
Edition:
Berkley trade paperback edition
Description:
xx, 412 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-394) and index
Contents:
Part one: A history of monsters: The postmodern age of serial homicide, 1970-2000
A brief history of serial homicide
Part two: The method and madness: Classifying serial killers
The evolution of monstrosity
The question of madness
Serial killers as children
The serial murderer's first kill
The killing times
The art and science of criminal profiling
Surviving a serial killer
LCCN:
2004050916
Control Number:
119982
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