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A compendium of bizarre, horrifying tales of murder features the world's most brutal serial killers, including a male nurse sentenced in the Southern California Hospital Murders and Waldo Grant, a "quiet loner" who killed with hammers and saws.

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  • Billy Ray Waldon: Went on a killing spree after his grandmother died.
  • William Scott Day: Escaped three times friom Jackson Prison in Michigan.
  • John Brooks: Described by police as "the largest one-man crime spree in...New Orleans history."
  • Robert Hansen: As an adult he remembered his teenaged face as looking like "one big pimple."
  • Genene Jones: Came under suspicion in the deaths of 47 hospitalized children.
  • Clarence Hill: Contributed to safety concerns in a lovers' parking area in the Delaware River.
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First Sentence edit see section history

The face of modern homicide is changing.

Series & Lists edit see section history

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

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Michael Newton (Author)

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Adults

Fine for most teens as well as adults.

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  • The Big, Bad Book of Bill: Rogues, Rascals and Rapscallions Named William, Bill and Willie
  • The Mammoth Book of Women Who Kill
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Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • Sexual Homicide
  • Sexual Murder
  • Dark Dreams
  • Halting the Sexual Predators among Us: Preventing Attack, Rape, and Lust Homicide
  • Why They Kill
  • Hunting Humans

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