Exploring the World of Serial Killers: A Real Crime Book
SERIAL KILLERS
Real Crime Book of Serial Killers
INSIDE THE MINDS OF THE WORLD’S SICKEST SERIAL KILLERS • TED BUNDY, JOHN WAYNE GACY, JEFFREY DAHMER, EDMUND KEMPER, PEDRO ALONSO LÓPEZ, AND FRED AND ROSE WEST HAVE GONE DOWN IN INFAMY. WE KNOW WHAT THESE MONSTERS DID, BUT WHAT WENT ON INSIDE THEIR HEADS?
LOVE WILL TEAR US APART • FOLLOWING THEIR ARREST, FRED AND ROSE’S STORIES BEGAN TO SPLINTER
PUBLIC FACE: THE AVERAGE JOE • NEIGHBOUR, HUSBAND, COMMUNITY LEADER
PRIVATE FACE: KILLER CLOWN • WHEN THE MASK OF SANITY SLIPPED, GACY’S TRUE NATURE WAS REVEALED
AWKWARD… BUT DEADLY • THE FASCINATING BODY LANGUAGE OF JEFFREY DAHMER
MAN HUNTER THE RIGHTEOUS RAGE OF AILEEN WUORNOS • AFTER SIX CONVICTIONS OF KILLING INNOCENT MEN IN COLD BLOOD, DID THE USA’S MOST INFAMOUS FEMALE SERIAL KILLER REALLY DESERVE TO DIE?
BLOOD AND BULLETS • SHE STOLE THEIR CARS, OFTEN LEFT THEM NAKED AND MADE SURE SHE FILLED THEM WITH ENOUGH LEAD TO KILL THEM
HIDDEN AGENDAS • FROM THE MOMENT OF HER CAPTURE, THE MEN AND WOMEN AROUND WUORNOS SHAPED THE SERIAL KILLER’S IMAGE
AILEEN’S MANY CONFESSIONS • WUORNOS WASN’T SHY OF DROPPING CONVENIENT SOUND BITES TO THE DELIGHT OF THE PRESS AND THE PROSECUTION, WITH EVERY PARTY BRINGING THEIR OWN LAYERS OF TRUTH AND FICTION
THE SON OF SAM’S HAUNTING LETTERS • DAVID BERKOWITZ TERRORISED NEW YORK CITY WITH HIS CRIMES, TAUNTING POLICE WITH NOTES LEFT AT THE SCENE
WHAT HAPPENED TO BERKOWITZ?
L’OGRE DES ARDENNES • MICHEL FOURNIRET – THE OGRE OF THE ARDENNES – CONFESSED TO NINE MURDERS, BUT WERE THERE MORE?
THE ELUSIVE FACTS OF THE CASE
FINAL VICTIM • THERE’S IAN BRADY AND MYRA HINDLEY. THEN THERE’S THE BLEAKNESS BETWEEN LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE. SADDLEWORTH MOOR IS THE SILENT WITNESS THAT STILL HOLDS A DARK SECRET: WHERE IS KEITH BENNETT?
MEMENTOS OF MURDER • THE EERIE MIX AND GRIM FOOTAGE THAT CRACKED THE CASE
THE FIELD OF BONES • BENEATH THE DARK PEAT OF SADDLEWORTH MOOR
TOERAG AND TEARAWAY • HOW DAVID SMITH FOUND HIMSELF IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME
CROCODILE TEARS • MYRA HINDLEY’S SO-CALLED REMORSE
CATCHING A CANNIBAL • MEET THE MILWAUKEE CANNIBAL, WHOSE SICK ACTS MADE HIM BOTH A SERIAL KILLER AND A SEX OFFENDER
A LIFE OF MURDER
BETROTHED, BUTCHERED AND BURNED • HE WAS JUST A LONELY HEART LOOKING FOR LOVE, OR SO HE SAID. IN REALITY, HE WAS A BUTCHER WHO WOULD BECOME KNOWN AS A REAL-LIFE BLUEBEARD
KILLED FOR THEIR CASH • LANDRU TARGETED WIDOWS AND VULNERABLE WOMEN, CLAIMING TEN UNSUSPECTING FEMALE VICTIMS OVER A FOUR-YEAR PERIOD
BLUEBEARD AND HIS WIVES • LANDRU’S MURDERS ECHOED, AND EVEN SURPASSED, THOSE OF THE FICTIONAL BLUEBEARD CENTURIES EARLIER
WHY DID BLUEBEARD KILL? • WAS LANDRU MAD OR JUST BAD? HISTORIAN LUCY WILLIAMS EXPLORES BLUEBEARD’S METHODS
THE BIRTH OF EVIL RICHARD RAMIREZ • SATANISM, FAMILY, RAPE, MURDER AND JESUS: WHAT FORCES DROVE RICHARD RAMIREZ? WHERE DID THE TROUBLED CHILD END AND THE SERIAL-KILLING NIGHT STALKER BEGIN?
UNHOLY UNION • IN 1996, A FREELANCE JOURNALIST MARRIED RICHARD RAMIREZ. WHAT WOULD PROMPT SOMEONE TO MARRY A KILLER?
SATANISM OR SENSATIONALISM ? • MUSICIAN, PRESENTER AND SATANIST JOHNNY DOOM OFFERS INSIGHT INTO RAMIREZ’S HEADLINE-GRABBING BELIEFS
RUSSIA’S MOST PROLIFIC KILLER? • DID THE BITSA PARK MANIAC OUTDO THE ROSTOV RIPPER AND BECOME RUSSIA’S MOST PROFUSE MURDERER?
WHAT HAPPENED TO PICHUSHKIN?
THE KILLING ‘GAME’ OF BTK • THE SERIAL KILLER KNOWN AS BTK TERRORISED WICHITA, KANSAS FOR 30 YEARS. HE WROTE LETTERS TO POLICE AND MEDIA, TEASING THEM WITH DETAILS OF HIS HORRIFIC DEEDS
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