num_pages: 391
description: This guide examines the realities of serial murder versus popular myths depicted in film and television. From Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy, the encyclopedia gives readers an overview of what is undoubtedly the most macabre and fascinating branch of crime and modern criminology.
language: English
title: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
titlecomplete: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
characters: Albert Fish, Gilles de Rais, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson, Ed Gein, David Berkowitz, Erzsébet Báthory, Henry Lee Lucas, Gerard Schaefer, Peter Kürten, Karl Denke, Jack the Ripper, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Ramirez, Gary Heidnik, Ottis Toole, Aileen Wuornos, Zodiac Killer
genres: History, Collections, Reference, Psychology, Biography, Textbooks, Horror, Crime, Nonfiction, True Crime
ratings_count: 2667
publisher: Checkmark Books