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Description edit
Small biographies of the lives and crimes of some mass murderers, serial killers and other assorted no-goodniks. There are a couple of cases in here you're unlikely to read about elsewhere.
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
People edit
- Charles Whitman: The famed college-campus clock-tower sniper
- Richard Speck: The killer of 8 student nurses in a single night in Chicago
- Howard Unruh: Killed 13 people in 13 minutes in Camden, NJ
- Earle Nelson: Nowadays would be called a serial killer -- a Bible-toting landlady strangler
- Ernie Ingenito: Had serious issues with his in-laws
- Charles Starkweather: Maybe the most famous mass murderer of all
- William Cook: A little too impulsive for anyone's good
- Melvin Rees: Again, we would call him a serial killer these days
- Magdalena Solis: Multiple murderer in her capacity as the priestess of a religio-sexual money cult
Quotes edit
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“As if it were not appalling enough that Martinez had been shot, and that his body had been slashed more than fifty times, the inspector was shocked to discover that the man's heart had been cut out.”
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“I'd have killed a thousand if I'd had bullets enough.”
Howard Unruh -
“One of these days it won't be just a little item with me. It'll be the whole front page!”
Richard Speck
First Sentence edit
At 12:30 Saturday morning, July 17, 1966, Dr. LeRoy Smith, resident surgeon on trauma duty at Chicago's Cook County Hospital, made a hasty appraisal of the bloodied derelict who had just been brought in from a skid row flophouse on West Madison Street.
Table of Contents edit
RICHARD SPECK: BORN TO RAISE HELL
EARLE NELSON: THE MAN WHO STRANGLED LANDLADIES
WILLIAM COOK: "LIVE BY THE GUN AND ROAM"
HOWARD UNRUH: THE QUIET MAN WHO KILLED THIRTEEN IN TWELVE MINUTES
MAGDALENA SOLIS: PERVERSE PRIESTESS OF HUMAN SACRIFICE
CHARLES STARKWEATHER: HE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A CRIMINAL
MELVIN DAVIS REES: SLAYER FOR SEX
ERNIE INGENITO: HIS IN-LAWS WERE HIS ENEMIES
CHARLES WHITMAN: THE MARKSMAN IN THE TOWER
IS THERE NO END TO THE MADNESS?
AFTERWORD
Series & Lists edit
This book is in True Crime: Anthologies. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Brad Steiger (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Dr. W. John Weilgart (Afterword)
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