Serial Killers: The Stories of Historys 50 Evilest Murderers

by Brian Innes

Book Overview

Organized chronologically, here are the stories of 50 murderers in American and world history. Each chapter provides a biography of one killer, describing the formative experiences that turned them into monsters, their hidden lives and gruesome crimes. It explains how each was caught, including descriptions of psychological profiles and crime investigation procedures, and their ultimate fate. Timelines and victim panels detail their atrocities and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905204361
• ISBN13: 9781905204366
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Booksales
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.6" x 10.5"

Customer Reviews

I love reading up on Serial Killers…

Let me first say,’ I got the book super quick in the mail and was super pleased how well taken care of the book is. Thank you. I haven’t gotten through the whole book yet, but just reading some of it.. it’s definitely a good read. If you’re into that sort of thing. So many killers names I never recognized witch is fascinating to me especially how far goes back in time. I recommend this book!

Serial Killers Book

This site dosen't have a picture of the book so first let me say that it's a large hard-cover book with half the face of Jeffrey Dahmer and the words 'Serial Killers- The Stories of History's Most Evil Murderers' on the front. As far as the content.. it dosen't disapoint. This book lists almost every single serial killer that are more well known as well as some you most likely have never heard of...Prominent killers from Australia, England, South Africa, Russia and New Zealand as well as almost all the American ones. It's a very well put together book that gives it an edge on many other serial killer books because of all the pictures which are close ups and shots you most likely have not scene. Most other serial killer books usually just have the stories and a couple pictures but this has close up pictures of them all in black and white. It pretty much covers it all.. why they do it, who they are and what they gain from it.. I could only think of one serial killer that was missing but he's not that well known amongst the general population though I consider him to be one of the worst but that's the only one not in here. Overall, it's a very well put together book with the facts and profiles as well as full stories about the killers and victims. I pretty much know many of these cases by heart and did notice some small inconsistencies that were off that were somewhat annoying but for the most part it's pretty factual. Other than that I consider this worth the money and it's a unique addition to the true crime genre.

Doesn't Forget the Victims of these Crimes!

This book is more like an encyclopedia of 50 of the notorious serial killers around. Fortunately, it does not forget the names of the many victims whose lives are taken. The book provides an introduction and an explanation on what identifies a serial killer as well. The list of contents include the following profiles: Jack the Ripper of London, England Herman Webster Mudgett a.k.a. Dr. H.H. Holmes of USA Bela Kiss of Hungary, Henri Landru of France Fritz Haarmann of Hannover, Germany Carl Panzram of USA Peter Kurten of Germany Leonard Earle Nelson of USA Marcel Petiot of France John George Haigh of England William Heirens of USA John Reginald Christie of London, England Edward Theodore Gein of Plainfield, Wisconsin, USA Harvey Glatman of Los Angeles, California Albert DeSalvo of Massachusetts Ian Brady and Myra Hindley of Manchester, England Lucian Staniak of Poland Jerome Brudos of USa Zodiac Killer of California Henry Lee Lucas of USA Edmund Kemper of USA Arthur Shawcross of USA John Wayne Gacy of Illinois, USA Ted Bundy of USA David Berkowitz of New York, USA Peter Sutcliffe of Yorkshire, England Dean Corll & Wayne Henley of USA Donald Henry Gaskins of USA Dennis Nilsen of London, England Fred & Rosemary West of Gloucester, England Ken Bianchi & Angela Buono of Los ANgeles, California USA Ricahrd Trenton Chase of Sacramento, California USA Donald Harvey of USA Wayne Williams of Atlanta, Georgia USA John Francis Duffy of USA Clifford Raymond Olson of Canada Gary Leon Ridgway of Seattle, Washington USA Genene JOnes of USA Andrei Chikatilo of Russia Leonard Lake and Charles Ng of California, USA Richard Ramirez of Los Angeles, California USA David & CAtherine Birnie of Australia Aileen Wuornos of Florida, USA Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka of Canada Dr. Harold Shipman of Englnad Jeffrey Dahmer of Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA Colin Ireland of England Moses Sithole of South Africa Ivan Milat of Australia John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo of USA