Serial Killers of the '80s
Serial Killers of the '80s

Author: Jane Fritsch

Publisher: Union Square & Co.

Published: 2022-08-02

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1454941693

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The 1980s were a time of notorious serial killers—Jeffrey Dahmer, Aileen Wuornos, Samuel Little—but also of advances in forensics that helped lead to their capture. The serial killer became part of our common cultural consciousness in the 1970s and, in the decade that followed, the FBI confronted even more incomprehensible crimes and their perpetrators. This engrossing collection of illustrated true-crime profiles details the unthinkable exploits of a rogue’s gallery that includes—in addition to Jeffrey Dahmer, Aileen Wuornos, and Gary Ridgway—Samuel Little and Joseph James DeAngelo, serial murderers whose criminal legacies are still making headlines today.

Serial Killers of the '70s
Serial Killers of the '70s

Author: Jane Fritsch

Publisher: Union Square & Co.

Published: 2021-08-24

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1454939427

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From Ted Bundy to John Wayne Gacy and David Berkowitz, the 1970s were a time of notorious and brutal serial killers. Find out more about them, along with some you may never have heard of. The Co-Ed Killer, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, and Dating Game Killer—in many ways, terrifying serial killers were as synonymous with the 1970s as Watergate, disco, and the oil crisis. This fascinating collection of profiles presents the most notorious as well as lesser-known serial murderers of that decade. Beyond Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz, it includes more obscure killers like Coral Eugene Watts, known as “The Sunday Morning Slasher,” who killed 80 women; Edmund Kemper, the "Co-Ed Killer"; and Rodney Alcala, who is believed to have killed between 50 and 130 people between 1971-1979. Profiles will include: Rodney Alcala: The Dating Game Killer David Berkowitz: The Son of Sam Kenneth A. Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr: The Hillside Strangler Ted Bundy John Wayne Gacy: The Killer Clown Coral Eugene Watts: The Sunday Morning Slasher Vaughn Greenwood: The Skid Row Slasher

Serial Killers True Crime
Serial Killers True Crime

Author: Daniel Brand

Publisher: Tru Nobilis Publishing

Published: 2018-07-03

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9780999382431

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This gripping book gives you an inside look into 13 of the most frightening serial killer stories of the 1980s. Learning about the lives of these 13 serial killers - along with the lives they took - is a rollercoaster of emotions. It's scary, shocking, heartbreaking and enraging all at the same time. This book will leave you feeling almost too scared to leave your house and stunned at how one human could do these things to another. You'll feel sorrow for the lives lost - for their families and all those affected, yet angry at the same time. Angry at this world we live in, angry that anyone could get away with the murder of one and then go on to kill more. Many of these tales you almost see coming - the killer had a poor childhood and was simply dealt a rough hand in life, which leads to the question - what could have been done? Is there something that could have saved these people from becoming serial killers? Or is it ever possible to save someone from themselves?

American Serial Killers
American Serial Killers

Author: Peter Vronsky

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-02-09

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0593198816

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Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the American "Golden Age" (1950-2000). With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers and Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky has established himself as the foremost expert on the history of serial killers. In this first definitive history of the "Golden Age" of American serial murder, when the number and body count of serial killers exploded, Vronsky tells the stories of the most unusual and prominent serial killings from the 1950s to the early twenty-first century. From Ted Bundy to the Golden State Killer, our fascination with these classic serial killers seems to grow by the day. American Serial Killers gives true crime junkies what they crave, with both perennial favorites (Ed Kemper, Jeffrey Dahmer) and lesser-known cases (Melvin Rees, Harvey Glatman).

The Frightening Serial Killer In The 80s
The Frightening Serial Killer In The 80s

Author: Foster Caflisch

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05-27

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13:

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A serial killer is someone who murders at least two people in separate events that occur at different times. While "serial murder" is not formalized by any legal code, the crimes of serial killers have often been seized on by the media and the public consciousness-especially in cases where there are many victims or the murders are carried out in gruesome fashion. This book will lead you to 13 of the most frightening serial killer stories of the 1980s. Learning about the lives of these serial killers along with the lives they took. It's scary, shocking, heartbreaking, and enraging all at the same time. It will leave you feeling almost too scared to leave your house and stunned at how one human could do these things to another. You'll feel sorrow for the lives lost - for their families and all those affected, yet angry at the same time. Angry at this world we live in, angry that anyone could get away with the murder of one and then go on to kill more. Regardless, killers get caught and eventually pay for what they've done, in some form, whether it's jail time or execution.

Sons of Cain
Sons of Cain

Author: Peter Vronsky

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-08-14

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0698176146

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From the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why we are drawn to their horrifying crimes. Before the term was coined in 1981, there were no "serial killers." There were only "monsters"--killers society first understood as werewolves, vampires, ghouls and witches or, later, Hitchcockian psychos. In Sons of Cain--a book that fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized true crime--investigative historian Peter Vronsky examines our understanding of serial killing from its prehistoric anthropological evolutionary dimensions in the pre-civilization era (c. 15,000 BC) to today. Delving further back into human history and deeper into the human psyche than Serial Killers--Vronsky's 2004 book, which has been called the definitive history of serial murder--he focuses strictly on sexual serial killers: thrill killers who engage in murder, rape, torture, cannibalism and necrophilia, as opposed to for-profit serial killers, including hit men, or "political" serial killers, like terrorists or genocidal murderers. These sexual serial killers differ from all other serial killers in their motives and their foundations. They are uniquely human and--as popular culture has demonstrated--uniquely fascinating.

1980s - A Decade of Serial Killers
1980s - A Decade of Serial Killers

Author: Jack Smith

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-06-30

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781077109513

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Discover the most wicked serial killers of the 1980s, one of the worst decades of true crime and heinous serial murderers America has ever known. The 1980s had a booming economy yet the highest homeless rate on record. There was also a lot of crime and a pretty serious drug epidemic. Remember DARE to be drug-free? Or perhaps "This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?" This was all a product of the 1980s, and so too were a whole host of bloodthirsty and murderous monsters who were either hopped up on goofballs themselves or just naturally-and criminally-insane. Here in this book, we take you down the dark paths chosen by some of the worst serial killers of the 1980s. From the Green River Killer to the brutally murderous duo of Leonard Lake and Charles Eng. After reading this book, you will never look back at the 1980s in quite the same way again! Scroll back up and grab your copy today!

The Big Book of 1980s Serial Killers
The Big Book of 1980s Serial Killers

Author: Michelle Kaminsky

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2024-04-09

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 164604617X

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Neon leg warmers, big hair, rock band T-shirts, and mix tapes - 1980s' nostalgia at its finest. But just below that saccharine facade lurked a seedy underbelly of inconceivable human monsters like no decade before had ever seen. The Golden Age of the Serial Killer brought a sharp increase in violent crime, panic, and terror, which in turn sparked a chaotic race between serial murderers and law enforcement officers tasked with both stopping the killings and delivering justice to victims and their loved ones. The Big Book of 1980s Serial Killers is for the true crime fanatic who wants to investigate these cases and discover the ins and outs of how crimes like these are solved. Drawing from meticulous research, contemporary journalistic accounts, and trial transcripts, this book traces the various ways in which law enforcement cracked some of the most challenging serial killer cases in history. Serial killers included: Doug Clark and Carol Bundy (Sunset Strip Killers); Jeffrey Dahmer; Jo

Killer on the Road
Killer on the Road

Author: Ginger Strand

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2012-04-15

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0292726376

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Looks at the correlation between the construction of the Interstate Highway system and the rise in the national murder rate, highlighting specific killers and how the highway system changed America.

The Grim Sleeper
The Grim Sleeper

Author: Christine Pelisek

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2018-04-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1640090231

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“One of the best true crime books of all time.” —Time As seen on Investigation Discovery’s The Grim Sleeper: Mind of a Monster The inside story of one of the notorious and elusive serial killer who stalked the vulnerable, the young, and the ignored in 1980s Los Angeles—and then returned decades later to kill again The Grim Sleeper was one of the most brutal serial killers in California history, preying on the women of South Central for decades. No one knows this story better than Christine Pelisek, the reporter who followed it for more than ten years. Based on extensive interviews, reportage, and information never released to the public, The Grim Sleeper captures the long, bumpy road to justice in one of the most startling true crime stories of our generation from his violent first crime while serving in the US Army to his inevitable death in prison.