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Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters

Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters

by Peter Vronsky

Published for the first time: 10/5/2004

412 pages, Paperback

Genres: Serial Killer, True Crime, Psychology, History, Nonfiction, Crime, Audiobook

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 book covers every conceivable aspect of an endlessly riveting true-crime phenomenon.

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