Born Killers: Childhood Secrets of the World's Deadliest Serial Killers - Softcover

But no matter how many people they have killed, no matter how many lives they have ruined and whatever the nature of their sickening crimes, serial killers are still human. Analysing the early years of the lives of men like Jeffrey Dahmer, who abused and killed 17 young men, offers a fascinating insight into the effects of a dysfunctional or abusive childhood. Criminologists Christopher Berry-Dee and Steven Morris have spoken and corresponded with killers all over the world in a quest to discover what made them the way they are. For the first time, the inner workings of the minds of the most destructive individuals on the planet are revealed in shocking detail. Born Killers shows, through a sophisticated system of psychological profiling, how the potential serial killer develops. Read it and you too may be able to spot the signs...

Christopher Berry-Dee is editor-in-chief of The New Criminologist. His books include Talking with Serial Killers and Dad, Help Me, the story of Derek Bentley and Christopher Craig. He has also worked on TV crime programmes. Steve Morris is editor of The New Criminologist, a documentary true crime consultant and TV researcher. An international authority on the study of serial murder and sex crime, he is author of several books and related publications.