Psycho USA
Subtitle: famous american killers you never heard of
By: Harold Schechter
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780345524478; 9780345524485
Subjects: Murder; Murderers; Biography; Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fiends of the early Republic, 1782-1826; title: William Beadle, family annihilator; title: Domestic slaughter then and now; title: Samuel Green, prodigy of crime; title: Jesse Strang and the Cherry Hill murder; title: Hawthorne and Strang; title: Antebellum maniacs, 1840-1860; title: Robert McConaghy, "the inhuman butcher"; title: The Mohawk massacre; title: Peter Robinson, the "tell-tale heart" killer; title: Another tell-tale murder; title: Polly Bodine, "The witch of staten island"; title: "The worst woman on earth"; title: Dr. Valorous P. Coolidge, the Waterville poisoner; title: "The ballad of Edward Matthews"; title: Henrietta Robinson, "The veiled murderess"; title: The age of arsenic; title: Return J. M. Ward, "The triple murderer"; title: Burned alive; title: Francis Gouldy, pre-civil war mass murderer; title: The Saugerties bard, minstrel of mayhem; title: Albert Hicks, "The worst man who ever lived"; title: The resurrection of Albert Hicks; title: Post-civil war monsters, 1866-1880; title: Martha Grinder, Lydia Sherman, and Sarah Jane Robinson: the; title: "American borgias; title: "Poison and pedophilia"; title: Anton Probst, "The monster in the shape of a man"; title: The eyes of Anton Probst; title: Edward H. Ruloff, "The man of two lives"; title: "His side of the story"; title: Louis Wagner, the smutty nose butcher; title: "A memorable murder"; title: Franklin Evans, the Northwood murderer; title: "Georgianna lovering, or the Northwood tragedy"; title: "Was it a ghost?"; title: Joseph Lapage, "The french monster"; title: The Langmaid memorial; title: The mystery of serial murder; title: Charles Freeman and the "pocasset horror"; title: The woman who killed her child for god; title: Emeline meaker, "the Virago of Vermont"; title: Mad Dorothy Talbot; title: Hangings public and private; title: Turn-of-the-century psychos, 1892-1896; title: Carlyle Harris, the libertine; title: Dr. Robert Buchanan, copycat; title: Harry Hayward, "the Minneapolis Svengali"; title: "The fatal ride"; title: A hypnotic villain; title: Scott Jackson, who slaughtered poor Pearl Bryan; title: Cal Crim, "sleuth-hound of the law"; title: Murdered-girl ballads; title: A year of horror, 1927; title: Andrew P. Kehoe, "the world's worst demon"; title: The Wall Street bombing; title: Ada Leboeuf, "the siren of the swamps"; title: "Rules for murderesses"; title: William Edward Hickman, "the Fox"; title: Cashing in; title: Demons of the Depression; title: Pearl O'Loughlin, wicked stepmother; title: Can Ground Glass kill?; title: Harry powers, "the bluebeard of quiet dell"; title: "The crime at quiet dell" (version one); title: "The crime at quiet dell" (version two); title: "The night of the hunter"; title: Bluebeard : fact and fantasy; title: Robert Edwards, the "American tragedy killer"; title: Erased; title: Robert Irwin, "the mad sculptor"; title: Soldier, sailor, serial killer, 1941-1961; title: Eddie Leonski, "the brown-out strangler"; title: No rest for the wicked; title: Julian Harvey and the Bluebelle's last voyage; title: Antone Costa, the "Cape Cod vampire"; title: Final words; title: Acknowledgments; title: Index.