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The serial killer files : the who, what, where, how, and why of the world's most terrifying murderers / Harold Schechter.
- Title
- The serial killer files : the who, what, where, how, and why of the world's most terrifying murderers / Harold Schechter.
- Author
- Schechter, Harold
- Publication
- New York : Ballantine Books, 2004, c2003.
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| Text | Request in advance | HV6505 .S34 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 421 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Profiles some of the most notorious, and brutal, serial killers from history, describing their crimes, motivations, methods, and more, and defining different types of deviance and derangement that serial killers suffer from.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-409) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. What It Means -- 2. Who They Are -- 3. A History of Serial Murder -- 4. Gallery of Evil -- Ten American Monsters -- 5. Sex and the Serial Killer -- 6. Why They Kill -- 7. Evil in Action -- 8. How It Ends.
- ISBN
- 0345465660 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2003062982
- OCLC
- 53231284
- SCSB-12295336
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library