An A-to-Z guide to the world's most horrifying criminals discusses the lives and crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, David Berkowitz, Peter Sutcliffe, and John Wayne Gacy, as well as killers known only by their deeds. Reprint.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Inaccurate as can be, but entertaining anyway.,
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This review is from: Encyclopedia of Serial Killers (Paperback)
The authors of this book most definitely need to do more research because they alone are unable to keep dates and names correct. All the other "Encyclopedias" are able to at least know what they are talking about. These guys also need an editor worth at least minimum wage. The one they hired for this book was not doing very much to correct anything that needed it.
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Needs More Work,
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Lane and Gregg's book is nice if you want something to carry around everywhere you go, but it is poorly edited and/or poorly researched (for instance, Herman Webster Mudgett was hung on May 7th, not May 27th). There is also too much of an emphasis on murderers whom I wouldn't immediately title "serial killers," such as Adolfo Constanzo and Dr. Thomas Neill Cream. The writing is about average and overall the Schecter and Newton books are better references for those interested.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Pretty good...,
By rockerosalsero "rockerosalsero" (Hartford, CT/ Trujillo Alto, Pr) - See all my reviews
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Instead of just giving to eye candy and "big names" in the field of serial murderers, this book gives close to about a 100 or so "others", and their crimes...pretty good.
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ABEL, Wolfgang, and FURLAN, Mario Verona was an unlikely sort of city to play host to two of the most grisly serial killers in modern history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
freeway killer, penalty hearing, killer couples, lust killer, arsenical poisoning, gastric fever, found strangled, found shot dead Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Mary Ann, Jack the Ripper, San Francisco, Jeffrey Dahmer, Old Bailey, Los Angeles, Bible John, Death Row, George Sack, United States, Black Panther, Jeanne Weber, Ted Bundy, Andrei Chikatilo, Boston Strangler, Boysie Singh, Gilles de Rais, New Jersey, Peter Kurten, Scotland Yard, Thomas Neill Cream, Ann Arbor, Graham Young, Great War New!
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ABEL, Wolfgang, and FURLAN, Mario Verona was an unlikely sort of city to play host to two of the most grisly serial killers in modern history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
freeway killer, penalty hearing, killer couples, lust killer, arsenical poisoning, gastric fever, found strangled, found shot dead Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Mary Ann, Jack the Ripper, San Francisco, Jeffrey Dahmer, Old Bailey, Los Angeles, Bible John, Death Row, George Sack, United States, Black Panther, Jeanne Weber, Ted Bundy, Andrei Chikatilo, Boston Strangler, Boysie Singh, Gilles de Rais, New Jersey, Peter Kurten, Scotland Yard, Thomas Neill Cream, Ann Arbor, Graham Young, Great War New!
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- Jack the Ripper by Mark Daniel on page 65, page 97, and Index
- Alone with the Devil: Psychopathic Killings That Shocked the World by Ronald Markman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj by Richard Neville in Back Matter
- From Cradle to Grave: Short Lives and Strange Deaths of Marybeth Tinning's Nine Children by Joyce Egginton in Back Matter
- All His Father's Sins by Lt. Ray Biondi in Back Matter
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- Sex Crimes, Predators, Perpetrators, Prostitutes, and Victims: An Examination of Sexual Criminality and Victimization by R. Barri Flowers on 7 pages
- Runaway Kids and Teenage Prostitution: America's Lost, Abandoned, and Sexually Exploited Children by R. Barri Flowers on page 118, and Back Matter
- Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story Of A Doctor Who Got Away With Murder by James B. Stewart in Back Matter
- Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away with Murder by James B. Stewart in Back Matter
- The Human Predator: A Historical Chronicle of Serial Murder and Forensic Investigation by Katherine Ramsland in Back Matter
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