New and updated entries include: Axe Man of New Orleans; BTK Strangler; Jack the Ripper; Cuidad Juarez, Mexico; John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, the Sniper Killers; Gary Leon Ridgway, the Green River Killer; and Harold Frederick Shipman. I would have preferred to see some psychological evaluating by a suitably qualified person alongside the authors work, who merely reports the facts. Make no mistake that this book will give you everything you need to know about them except the only thing I wish that this book should have is more photos.

A logical way to do this might just be to compile all of that knowledge into something encyclopedic. It's a pretty long read but it does contain some written material that might be inappropiate for some readers. With a worrying number of them living in our communities, working alongside us at our places of employment and sharing the same spaces where we spend time with our families, serial killers are just another neighbor that we barely think about. As an archaeologist, historian, and now murder investigator, the intellectual curiosity of Richard Carrico has no limits. While the entries to these volumes will continue to grow—the FBI estimates that there are at least fifty serial killers operating in the United States at any given time— The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is as complete as possible through the end of 2017.Well, let me just close by remarking that "The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers" is an extremely interesting source of information on the darker side of human nature. Hundreds of members of the Irish Republican Army determined to drive the hated British out of the province-killing soldiers and police, detonating … [Read More.

From Jack the Ripper to the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VICAP), the Encyclopedia of Serial Killers provides an exhaustive overview of what is undoubtedly the most macabre and fascinating branch of crime and modern criminology. As I read I noticed some typos and also some inaccuracies, but none of them serious -- until I got to Jesse, where the account said they found "12 corpses in the rubbish heap" in his basement and he "confessed to torturing to death 27 youngsters.From Art (both by and about serial killers) to Zeitgeist (how killers past and present embody their times) . The book is formatted like an encyclopedia but it reads like a collection of short stories on the most sordid of humans. The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is the most comprehensive set of its kind in the history of true crime publishing. The volume aims to aid understanding of the problem of serial homicide and to aid in the development of workable solutions to the problem. It also includes relevant topics that cover from different types of motives, tools, common themes of serial killing incidents and people who investigate the killings.

You will find these killers and approximately five-hundred others in this first book in the series of The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. Anything and everything you want to know about the most macabre serial killers are located within these pages. DiBacco is a riveting tale of crime, family, and redemption in the gritty underworld of the 1950s and 1960s Hartford, Connecticut.

The author wasted the limited space to discuss generic subjects such as modus operandi and memorabilia among others instead of making good use of it by covering more serial killers. Perhaps the most interesting thing about this murder-opedia is that it feels like it has a British focus, so there is more detail on European and English murderers, like Fred West, who was apprehended and charged in 1994, apparently when this text was authored. Some of the entries were a little lacking (to the point where I wondered why those killers were even included), but the majority of entries provided enough information to give a good picture of the killer, their crimes, and the aftermath.

California native Michael Newton has published 181 books since 1977, including 147 novels but he is best known for his true crime and reference works. The entries include Ted Bundy, the Candyman Dean Corll, Angel of Death killer Donald Harvey, the ABC Killer, and the Bodies in the Barrels Murders.Too intimate a brush with The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers had me peering over my shoulder and locking my car doors while driving for a week.