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Hunting Humans: An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial Killers

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Michael Newton has compiled the most grisly Encyclopedia imaginable - a detailed collection of some of the most notorious criminals imaginable. From relatively well known cases like the Green River Killer or Ted Bundy, to little known arcana like Stanley Dean Baker, the case files are facinating and the information concise. A walk through the darkest side of the human psyche. Worth both the time and the effort for the interested.

Hunting Humans has given me hours of reading pleasure. Being one who is interested in true crime I especially enjoyed reading about the serial killers from Canada. Growing up in Vancouver B.C., I can recall the paranoia and fear in the teen aged population (which I was a part of) when Clifford Robert Olson wreaked his terror across the lower mainland. There were some omissions, such as David William Shearing, who was both a mass murderer as well as a serial killer in the early 1980's. Over all, I found that it very comprehensively covered the topic of modern serial killers.

This is a must have book for any true crime lover or those who study crime and the criminal mind. Excellent reference book.

This book has detailed accounts of the actions of most of the infamous serial killers of our time. If this kind of thing twinges an interest you must have this book in your library!

In the book a couple of swedish murderers, or alleged murderers, are mentioned. The facts regarding these individuals, and the crimes they are supposed to have committed, have been very exaggerated. In several cases the facts are not true at all. For instance; there has been no swedish "vampire killer", dr. Haerm - who in this book is accused of several murders - was acquitted by the court of appeals in Sweden and he is not legally a suspect in his ex. wife's death. It's not hard to understand that getting facts about crimes on the other side of earth is hard and getting the facts right is probably even harder. But if these facts are inaccurate, what about the rest of the book? Instead of this book I suggest any one of Robert Ressler's biographies, or if you're into gore and blood: The killer next door by Joel Norris. Patrik E. Police officer. Sweden