The World's Most Evil Serial Killers: Crimes that Shocked the World
There are few people alive who are so cruel, so heartless and so undeniably evil that they will kill again and again. Yet at any one time, there are between 25 and 50 active serial killers in the USA, and their chilling crimes have fascinated us since the days of Jack the Ripper. Here you will discover how these heartless killers committed their gruesome deeds, what motivated them to kill and how, eventually, they were caught.

This collection features more than 50 compelling stories, including:
• Ed Kemper, who dismembered the bodies of his victims once he had finished with them;
• Ted Bundy, who abducted, raped and brutally killed more than 30 women;
• Charles Manson, who led a cult of mayhem and murder;
• Jeffrey Dahmer, who stored a human head in his freezer;
• Randy Kraft, who was pulled over for drunk driving with a body in the trunk of his car;
• Alexander Pichushkin, who aimed to kill a person for every square on the chessboard.

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The World's Most Evil Serial Killers: Crimes that Shocked the World
There are few people alive who are so cruel, so heartless and so undeniably evil that they will kill again and again. Yet at any one time, there are between 25 and 50 active serial killers in the USA, and their chilling crimes have fascinated us since the days of Jack the Ripper. Here you will discover how these heartless killers committed their gruesome deeds, what motivated them to kill and how, eventually, they were caught.

This collection features more than 50 compelling stories, including:
• Ed Kemper, who dismembered the bodies of his victims once he had finished with them;
• Ted Bundy, who abducted, raped and brutally killed more than 30 women;
• Charles Manson, who led a cult of mayhem and murder;
• Jeffrey Dahmer, who stored a human head in his freezer;
• Randy Kraft, who was pulled over for drunk driving with a body in the trunk of his car;
• Alexander Pichushkin, who aimed to kill a person for every square on the chessboard.

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The World's Most Evil Serial Killers: Crimes that Shocked the World

The World's Most Evil Serial Killers: Crimes that Shocked the World

The World's Most Evil Serial Killers: Crimes that Shocked the World

The World's Most Evil Serial Killers: Crimes that Shocked the World

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The evils of serial killers continue to fascinate the human mind and this compilation brings together fifty of the most notorious serial killers ever. If there’s a true crime fan in your life, this is for them.

There are few people alive who are so cruel, so heartless and so undeniably evil that they will kill again and again. Yet at any one time, there are between 25 and 50 active serial killers in the USA, and their chilling crimes have fascinated us since the days of Jack the Ripper. Here you will discover how these heartless killers committed their gruesome deeds, what motivated them to kill and how, eventually, they were caught.

This collection features more than 50 compelling stories, including:
• Ed Kemper, who dismembered the bodies of his victims once he had finished with them;
• Ted Bundy, who abducted, raped and brutally killed more than 30 women;
• Charles Manson, who led a cult of mayhem and murder;
• Jeffrey Dahmer, who stored a human head in his freezer;
• Randy Kraft, who was pulled over for drunk driving with a body in the trunk of his car;
• Alexander Pichushkin, who aimed to kill a person for every square on the chessboard.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781398807372
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Limited
Publication date: 09/01/2021
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 358,676
Product dimensions: 9.00(w) x 10.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

John Marlowe is a crime writer who lives in Ontario. The author of The World's Most Evil Psychopaths and Evil Wives he is currently working on an annotated edition of the 1950 pulp exposé Montreal Confidential.

Charlotte Greig graduated with an MA in Intellectual History from Sussex University, and started freelancing as a writer and editor for a variety of magazines and newspapers, including NME and the Guardian. In 1989 she wrote her first book, and since then has written four more and contributed to several others. In addition to lecturing and broadcasting, she has built a reputation as a specialist in popular music.  She is also a musician, and lives in Cardiff, Wales.

Table of Contents

A History of Murder
Elizabeth Báthory
William Burke and William Hare
Jack the Ripper
Lizzie Borden
Dr Hawley Harvet Crippen
Béla Kiss
Carl Panzram

For the Love of the Kill
Ed Kemper
David Berkowitz
Loren Herzog and Wesley Shermantine
Randy Steven Kraft

Highway Hunters
The Zodiac Killer
Patrick Kearney
Randall Woodfield
Larry Eyler
Herb Baumeister

Angels of Death
Donald Harvey
Genene Jones
Beverley Allitt
Kristen Gilbert
Harold Shipman
Kimberly Clark Saenz

Uncontrollable Urges
John Wayne Gacy
Ted Bundy
Gary Ridgway
Andrei Chikatilo
Robert Charles Browne
Tiago Henrique Gomes da Rocha

Evil Women
Nancy 'Nannie' Doss
Betty Neumar
Aileen Wuornos
Dorothea Puente
Tracie Andrews
Juana Barraza

The Madness of Monsters
Charles Manson
Reverend Jim Jones
Patrick Mackay
Richard Chase
Richard Mamirez
Tsutomu Miyazaki
Luis Anfredo Garavito Cubillos
Mikhail Popkov

Houses of Horror
H. H. Holmes
Jerry Brudos
Gary Heidnik
Phillip Garrido
Steve Wright
Anthony Sowell

Butchers and Cannibals
Karl Denke
Albert Fish
Joachim Kroll
Ed Gein
Serhiy Tkach
Robert Pickton
Jeffrey Dahmer
Stephen Griffiths
Tamara Samsonova

Partners in Crime
Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate
Fred and Rosemary West
Douglas Clark and Carol Bundy
Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
David Parker Ray and Cindy Hendy

Mass Killers
Ted Kaczynski
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
Anders Breivik
Adam Lanza
Omar Mateen

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