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In a quiet town in Wichita, Kansas comes the Serial Killer that is known as Dennis Rader. He wasn't your typical murderer; no he was something more than this, a twisted and demented family man.
Jeffrey Dahmer and his cannibalistic murder spree
The Zodiac Killer who terrorized San Francisco
John Wayne Gacy, the Klown Killer
If you liked authors Jack Rosewood and Ryan Green, then you are going to be on the edge of your seat!
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Today, you will be introduced to three sick serial killers. Their biographies will be summarized and explained. The said individuals are as follows:
Ted Bundy - Ted Bundy was one of the most infamous rapists and sexual predators, necrophiles, and murderers in the western part of the United States. Having been abused in his childhood and fed pornographic material from an early age, his crimes became more daring, violent, and vicious as he got a thrill...
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There's been a long-held belief in the public that serial killing is largely an American phenomenon. That America, with its large faceless urban centers, street prostitution, poor and neglected inner cities, drug problems, and homelessness, is not only a unique breeding ground for murdering psychopaths but has created a ready-made victim pool for serial killers. Now we know serial killing has no boundaries.
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There was a golden age of female serial killers in the U.S. and Europe. Female serial killers that targeted their children, husbands, and other family members. This was a time when women were becoming educated but had very little control over their lives. As a result they had very little recourse or legal remedies if they found themselves in a bad marriage or untenable domestic situation, a solution was to 'free themselves' by poisoning their husbands,...
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At the turn of the 20th century, America was on the move. It was changing from a country of farmers and small towns into a nation of growing urban centers. First railroads, then cars made it possible for people to crisscross the nation. Immigrants poured in from across Europe. Many argue that this transformation turned the country into an industrial powerhouse and later enabled it to become the global leader it is today. But it also created the perfect...
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21st-century America is a technological wonder: cell phones, internet, 24-hour news media, DNA breakthroughs, people on the move, and expanding urban centers. But many of the old problems remain: drug addiction, homelessness, prostitution, poverty, gangs, murder, and serial killing. Starting in the 1990s serial killing in America has transitioned and adapted to the changing world, while at the same time in many ways staying the same. What has changed:...
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"Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn't exactly conducive to modern dating-and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she's used to suspecting the worst. PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. She's even analyzing the genre in her dissertation-if she can manage to finish writing it. It's hard to find the time while she spends the summer in Florida, cleaning out her childhood home,...
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"Jincy Willett's beloved characters return in Amy Among the Serial Killers, a wickedly smart and funny take on the thriller genre by one of our most acclaimed literary humorists. Carla Karolac is doing just fine. Having escaped the clutches of her controlling mother and founded a successful writing retreat in which participants are confined to windowless cells until they hit their daily word count, she lives a comfortable, if solitary, existence....
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After surviving the Great Depression and World War II, America entered an idyllic age, The Atomic Age, where wholesome values and classic Americana were king. Dads could work in a factory and afford to send his kids to college. Moms could stay at home. And families could afford homes in newly emerging suburbia. Life was home baked chocolate chip cookies. Simple and good. However, 50s America was also a time of heinous crimes. The emerging media of...
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Prior to the true crime explosion, psychologists, and criminal investigators thought they had the serial killer figured out. But it turns out the answers are much more complex and troubling. Even the profile of the typical serial killer has changed dramatically. It is a change in the profile of who serial killers are and why they kill. It is a change that will send chills up your spine.
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What turns a person into a serial killer? Is it possible their dark destiny was foretold in the stars? This book provides the background stories and driving forces behind 24 of the most notorious true crime serial killers of the previous century, including Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Charles Manson, and Richard Ramirez. But that's not all!! It also includes breakdowns of the natal charts for each killer, analyzed with astrological pointers to...
17) White of the Eye
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A stylish take on the woman in jeopardy and mad killer genres, White of the Eye poses the question, What would you do if you suspected your loving husband to be a serial killer?
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Terrifying tales of the ultimate evil among us! One of the best serial killer books for fans of true crime.
The Killer Book of Serial Killers is the complete resource for any true crime fan or student of the lurid, fascinating world of serial killers. Inside you'll find a concise compilation of the world's thirty-five most notorious murderers, including an in-depth look at their crimes and the lives that turned them into
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Serial killers do have conscience. It isn't that they lack conscience. It is that their consciences lack some of the capabilities that an ordinary person's conscience. The serial killer's conscience does exist, as is evidenced by his ability to self-regulate-and indeed to self-regulate quite as well, at least in most contexts, as the next person. But the serial killer's conscience is not morally articulated; it lacks, at most, the ability to impose...
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