The Serial Killer Files - Softcover

Simpson, Paul

 
9781472136749: The Serial Killer Files
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1472136748 ISBN 13: 9781472136749
Verlag: Robinson, 2017

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Drawing on primary sources wherever possible, a myth-busting and thought-provoking examination of 33 intriguing serial killers from Australia, Great Britain, South Africa, Iran, the United States and elsewhere.

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PAUL SIMPSON is the author and co-author of over two dozen non-fiction books including A Brief History of the Spy and The Mammoth Book of Prison Breaks.

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A myth-busting, thought-provoking examination of 33 of the most intriguing serial killers
the world has known

There are many myths about serial killers: that they are all dysfunctional loners; all white males; only motivated by sex; that they all travel and operate across a wide area; cannot stop killing; are all insane, or evil geniuses; and that they all want to get caught.

This may be true for some, but by no means all. The married Green River Killer was not a dysfunctional loner; Dr Harold Shipman was not motivated by sex; and the 'BTK Killer', Dennis Rader, stopped killing in 1991, but was not caught until fourteen years later.

Each of the thirty cases covered here - from Australia, Colombia, Great Britain, Indonesia, Iran, South Africa, the United States and elsewhere - is unusual in some respect: the way the killer carried out their crimes, the choice of victims or how the killer was apprehended. Drawing on primary sources wherever possible, Paul Simpson provides an alternative to the increasingly dubious accounts to be found in many other places.

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Verlag
Robinson
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1472136748
ISBN 13 
9781472136749
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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