The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
Publisher: Pocket
Published: November 1, 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780671020743
Subjects: Reference works; True crime; United States; Serial murderers; True Crime / Espionage; Murder - General; True Crime / General; Rural conditions; Economic conditions; Social conditions; NONFICTION-TRUE CRIME/ESPIONAGE; Murder; Biography; Encyclopedias; Serial murders
First sentence: Back in the old days, desperate singles in search of a mate might turn to a professional matchmaker.
Notes: Pocket Books True Crime
Table of contents: title: LIST OF ENTRIES: Ads -- Alligators -- Animal torture -- Aristocrats -- Art -- Axe murderers -- Bathtubs -- Bed-wetting -- Black widows -- Blasphemy -- Robert Bloch -- Bluebeards -- Board games -- Body parts -- Calendars -- Cannibalism -- Cards, comics, and collectibles -- Causes -- Characteristics -- Civil servants -- Clans -- College courses -- Courtroom theatrics -- Cults -- Jeffrey Dahmer -- Death wish -- Definition -- Albert DeSalvo -- Disposal -- Doctors -- Escape -- Executions -- Fan clubs -- Fantasy -- FBI -- Albert Fish -- Foreigners -- John Wayne Gacy -- Edward Gein -- Grave robbing -- Groupies -- Fritz Haarman -- Head injuries -- Gary Heidnik -- The Hillside Stranglers -- History -- H. H. Holmes -- Homebodies -- Homosexuality -- Housekeepers -- Impotence -- Insanity -- Internet -- IQ -- Jack the Rippers -- Jekyll / Hyde -- Jokes -- Juveniles -- Edmund Kemper -- Kidney -- Killer couples -- Krafft-Ebing -- Peter Kürten -- Lady-killers -- Letters -- Lover’s Lane maniacs -- Lustmord -- Lycanthropy -- Charles Manson -- Marriage -- “Mask of sanity” -- Mass murder -- Models -- Motives -- Movies -- Multiple personality -- Murder rings -- Nazi buffs -- Necrophilia -- Nicknames -- Dennis Nilsen -- Nomads -- Nursery rhymes -- Nurses -- Orchards -- Ovens -- Carl Panzram -- Paraphilia -- Partners -- Marcel Petiot -- Phases -- Photographs -- Plumbing -- Poetry -- Poisoners -- Political correctness -- Pornography -- Post-homicidal depression -- Power tools -- Profiling -- Prostitutes -- Pyromania -- Quarry -- Quicklime -- Racism -- Recommended reading -- Records -- Refrigerators -- Rippers -- Ritual -- Russia -- Sadism -- Sadism -- Satanism -- Slipping through the cracks-- Songs -- Richard Speck -- Spree killers -- Statistics -- Jane Toppan -- Tourist attractions -- Transvestism -- Triad -- Triggers -- Trophies -- Types -- Unsolved -- Upbringing -- Joseph Vacher -- Vampires -- The vanishing -- Wannabees -- Wartime -- Weapons -- Whereabouts unknown -- Women -- The wrong man -- X chromosome -- X-Files -- X-rated -- X-rays -- Y chromosome -- Zealots -- Zeitgeist -- Zines -- Zombies -- Special Appendix : probing the mind of a spree killer : the blood trail of Andrew Cunanan .