By Harold Schechter
ISBN-10: 0345472004
ISBN-13: 9780345472007
The Serial Killer FilesHarold SchechterTHE DEFINITIVE file ON HISTORY'S so much HEINOUS!Hollywood's make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter cannot carry a candle to genuine lifestyles monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and rankings of others who've terrorized, tortured, and terminated their approach throughout civilization through the a while. Now, from the much-acclaimed writer of Deviant, Deranged, and wicked, comes the final word source at the serial killer phenomenon.Rigorously researched and choked with the main terrifying, up to date details, this leading edge and hugely compelling compendium covers each element of a number of murderers-from psychology to cinema, fetishism to fan golf equipment, "trophies" to buying and selling playing cards. Discover:WHO they're: these featured contain Ed Gein, the homicidal mama's boy who encouraged fiction's most renowned Psycho, Norman Bates; Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, sex-crazed killer cousins greater referred to as the Hillside Stranglers; and the Beanes, a fifteenth-century cave-dwelling extended family with an insatiable urge for food for human fleshHOW THEY KILL: They shoot, stab, and strangle. Butcher, bludgeon, and burn. Drown, dismember, and consume . . . and different equipment of bloodbath too many and great to say here.WHY THEY DO IT: For excitement and for revenue. For star and for "companionship. For the satan and for dinner. For the fun of it, for the hell of it, and since "such males are monsters, who dwell . . .beyond the frontiers ofmadness.PLUS: in-depth case experiences, vintage killers' nicknames, definitions of each type of deviance and derangement, and lots more and plenty, a lot more.For multiple hundred profiles of deadly loners and killer undefined, Bluebeards and black widows, cannibals and copycats- this is often an quintessential, spine-tingling, eye-popping research into the darkish hearts and mad minds of that twisted breed of human whose crimes are the main scary . . . and engaging.
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There is but one instinct which generates the impulse to incendiarism,” writes Wilhelm Stekel in his classic work on aberrant behavior. ” True, there are often “secondary motives” behind a pyromaniac’s acts—revenge, for example, like Panzram’s desire to get back at his tormentors. ” Anyone who doubts this has only to read Flora Schreiber’s writings about the New Jersey serial killer Joseph Kallinger, who was thrown into orgasmic raptures by the mere thought of the fires he had caused. In short, serial murderers who enjoy starting fires do so for the same reason that they love to torture and kill.
When his grandfather returned from running errands a short time later, Edmund shot him to death as he walked through the door. He then notified his mother and sat down to wait for the police. ” The murder of his grandpa was, he said, an act of mercy: a way to spare the old man the pain of discovering what had happened to his wife. Diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, Kemper—not yet sixteen—was committed to Atascadero State Hospital, where he appears to have spent much of his time raptly listening to the fond reminiscences of the various serial rapists he met on his ward.
I see the flames and no longer is a fire just a daydream. It is the reality of heaven on earth! I love the excitement of the power fire gives me . . The mental image is greater than sex! Animal Torture. Juvenile sadism directed at lower life-forms is nothing new. There have always been children and adolescents (usually male) who enjoy hurting small creatures. Certainly Shakespeare knew about such things. ” As disturbing as such behavior is, however, it pales beside the kinds of cruelties perpetrated by budding serial killers.