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The Serial Killer Files (2003) (edit title/settings)

The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers

by Harold Schechter (Author) (edit contributors)

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THE DEFINITIVE DOSSIER ON HISTORY’S MOST HEINOUS! Hollywood’s make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can’t hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way... read more

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There are people who genuinely believe that serial killers are a strictly contemporary phenomenon, a symptom of something horribly amiss in the moral fabric of modern American society.

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(Each section has many sub-chapters)
One: What it Means
Two: Who They Are
Three: A History of Serial Murder
Four: Gallery of Evil--Ten American Monsters
Five: Sex and the Serial Killer
Six: Why They Kill
Seven: Evil in Action
Eight: How it Ends
Nine: Serial Killer Culture

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This book is in True Crime: Serial Murder. (community list)
This book is in True Crime: Anthologies. (community list)

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  1. Harold Schechter (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0345465660
Page Count: 432

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