Product Description
"The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Second Edition" provides accurate, unglamorized information on hundreds of serial murder cases - from early history to the present. It includes new major serial killers who have come to light since the first edition was published, as well as many older cases that have been solved, such as the Green River Killer, or further investigated like Jack the Ripper and the "Zodiac" Killer. Updated entries and appendixes pair with more than 30 new photographs to make this new edition more fascinating than ever. New and updated entries include: "Axe Man of New Orleans"; BTK Killer; Jack the Ripper; Cuidad Juarez, Mexico; John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, the Sniper Killers; Gary Leon Ridgway, the Green River Killer; Harold Frederick Shipman; ViCLAS; Coral Watts; Aileen Wuornos; Robert Lee Yates Jr.; and more.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 11 reviews)

serial killers by Steven P. Grate

5 Stars
September 12, 2009
I have read many serial killer books and this true to life type of videos are my favorite.

Awesome! Good read! by Ren Joy (Pleasant Grove, Utah United States)

5 Stars
September 08, 2009
This book is fantastic! I enjoyed being able to read details that give insight into the lives of the serial killers. Very interesting if you are interested in this type of thing. Also, fantastic conversation starter as a coffee table book :)

You get what is advertised! by R. C Sheehy (Foxboro,MA USA)

4 Stars
December 02, 2008
This is one of my shorter reviews because this book basically does what it says it will do. It is an encyclopedia of serial killers. The editors line up and offer a background on some of the more famous serial killers of all time while also offering some details on what tools are used to find and defeat them. An interesting note is that most of the killers in this book got their starts in a period that seems to run from 1970-1985. Imagine a huge bell curve for serial killers and that is what you have. Something to keep an eye on in this book that I found interesting.

Clean. No guts, blood, pain, or suffering. by Diana M. Brown

3 Stars
October 01, 2008
It is written like an encyclopedia! Hahaha. It was a good simple easy read lots of basic facts. If your looking for those shockinng details. You are not going to get it here. The x-ray of albeit fich pelvis with the needle insterts was pretty interesting. Not much else.

Data miner by Harry Eagar (Maui)

3 Stars
September 08, 2008
According to prolific crime writer Michael Newton, 84 percent of the world's active serial killers are in the United States. No doubt this is more a tribute to the relentless, 24/7 instincts of America's overheated information industry than to any inherent tendency to greater savagery in American folkways. And while Newton does not assess the impact of information-gathering on perceptions, he does takes pains to rebut claims that serial killers are a modern phenomenon. They must always have been with us. Newton says the first "documented" example was Locusta, who poisoned Emperor Claudius in ancient Rome; but both the Sumerian legend of Gilgamesh and the Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" appear to describe what we would call serial killers. But across cultures and centuries, whatever it is that motivates serial killers seems to fall into easily delimited categories, once local details are stripped away. For example, there are "black widows" who poison husbands or family members, usually for money; "bluebeards," the male version of the black widow; plain robbers; religious fanatics; and various kinds of sexual deviates, of which the "ripper" is the most horrifying and best represented category in "The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers." Though Newton does not say so, accounts of "werewolves" from medieval and Renaissance Europe read exactly like the cases of pedophile rippers from today's newspapers. Whether we understand any better than the medieval jurists who blamed such brutal crimes on shape-changers is a question. We certainly subdivide the practitioners into more divisions than the medievals did: organized serial killers vs. unorganized, territorial vs. nomadic vs. stationary, solo vs. team. But Newton is rightly skeptical of FBI "profiling," which he says has never yet led to the arrest of a serial killer. Most arrests come through routine police work, though often the killer kills many times before leaving enough evidence to identify him. (Serial killers are, by definition, secretive; unlike mass killers, who seldom bother to hide their crimes and often wait quietly to be arrested.) The total of kills by some of these fiends certainly indicates that more police officers would not serve to lower the total number of victims. For one thing, some of the highest (but hardest to prove) totals are run up in hospitals and nursing homes where deranged nurses and doctors (or in one instance a janitor) can kill helpless people secretly. "Baby farms" where unwed mothers used to be sent to give birth were another opportunity for repeated, easy murder, but that one has become less common with changing attitudes toward bastardy. At the end of the encyclopedia, Newton lists several hundred active serial murder cases in which no suspect has been identified. It is an impressively scary list, although your chances of being serially killed are, compared to a lot of other unnatural ends, small.

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