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Serial Killers

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Serial Killers: Jack The Ripper to The Zodiac Killer is an exploration of the dark world of serial murder in the 20th and 21st century.  Covering international cult figures from H.H. Holmes to Luis Garavito (La Beastia), examining psychological motivations of serial murderers, and presenting some of the most terrifying unsolved cases to date, Serial Killers provides an eerie peer into the oft uncovered world of murder and mystery.
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167 printed pages
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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  • Davidhas quoted3 years ago
    A power-oriented killer often falls into the organized category. A killer like this may quietly blend in—an apparently mild-mannered good citizen—or may stand out for personal qualities such as intelligence, charm, self-confidence, and the kind of charisma that wins deference from others and can lead to prominence in a local or professional community. Hervey Cleckley, a twentieth-century theorist of psychopathy, had a name for this kind of socially acceptable facade—he called it the mask of sanity.
  • alektohas quoted3 years ago
    Götterdämmerung Collapse or disintegration, marked by catastrophic violence and disorder. Literal translation from the German means “twilight of gods”: Götter, plural of Gott (god) and Dämmerung (twilight).
  • alektohas quoted3 years ago
    Social process theorists propose that criminals are people who have learned to engage in criminal activity, and that the path to a life of crime gradually opens out from family problems at home, learning problems at school, pressure from peers, and early, relatively minor scrapes with the law. Positive bonds with conventional society are what keep the majority of people from becoming criminals, and the absence of positive bonds with society and its institutions is what promotes criminal activity.

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