The Ripper's Children: Inside the World of Modern Serial Killers

by Raymond Cornell, Ilene W. Devlin

Overview

Imagine how you would feel if you woke up one day and learned that your best friend was the most prolific serial killer in America and most of his victims looked like you. That was the start of a forty-year quest to understand the mind of a killer and friend. The search led to others like him and their dark compulsions. How can they murder multiple human beings without remorse?

The Ripper’s Children: Inside the World of Modern Serial Killers examines how their murderous drives may originate. Can serial murderers control their killing sprees? Are the causes social, genetic, or biochemical? The book sheds light on the blackest corner of the human mind. This book may cause you to take a closer look at your relatives, friends, and neighbors.

Co-authors Raymond Cornell & Ilene Devlin

Product Details

BN ID:	2940165020988
Publisher:	Raymond Cornell
Publication date:	09/06/2021
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	382 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

I have lived an unusual life. Born into extreme poverty, I have been a cat burglar, convict, college graduate, and Iowa’s first prison ombudsman. I was also a pardoned ex-offender and a trained hostage negotiator. My background included working as a private investigator on dozens of murder cases and other major felonies. Besides testifying as an expert on federal prison cases, I have consulted on numerous other murder cases around the country. Also, I am the brother of a murder victim and of a convicted killer. Recently, I consulted on and appeared in two television specials, “John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise” for NBC and another John Wayne Gacy show due to appear on Netflix in April 2022. Now writing in retirement, I am working on a history of prisons in America and an autobiography. I spend my spare time studying the cases of Sherlock Holmes and raising corgis and coleus with my wife Sandra.

Ilene W. Devlin was born in Winterset, Iowa. Attending the University of Iowa, Devlin obtained a BA in anthropology and an MA in archaeology and museum training. She later worked in museums in Nebraska, Tennessee, and Alabama. Since 1986, Ilene Devlin has lived in San Antonio, Texas. Her freelance articles and essays have been published in newspapers in San Antonio and Iowa. Truth and Fiction: Essays & Short Stories on Life is her third book. Her other books, Cherry Tree Dares: Essays on Childhood and Emma’s World: A World War II Memoir, are available through book outlets.