A Serial Killer —Your Neighbor, Friend, Even Your Spouse?Serial killers: Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer are often the first names that spring to mind. Many people assume serial killers are primarily an American phenomenon that came about in the latter part of the twentieth century. But such assumptions are far from the truth. Serial killers have been around for a very long time … Serial killers have been around for a very long time and can be found in every corner of the globe—and they’re not just limited to the male gender either. Some of these predators have been caught and brought to justice whereas others have never been found, let alone identified. Serial killers can be anywhere. And scarier still, they can be anyone.
Edited by acclaimed author and anthologist Mitzi Szereto, The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killersreveals all-new accounts of true crime serial killers from the contemporary to the historic. The international list of contributors includes award-winning crime writers, true-crime podcasters, journalists, and experts in the dark crimes field such as Martin Edwards, Lee Mellor, Danuta Kot, Craig Pittman, Richard O Jones, Marcie Rendon, Mike Browne, and Vicki Hendricks.
If you are a fan of true crime books such as I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Mindhunter, The Devil in the White City, or Peter Vronsky’s Sons of Cain; you will want to read Mitzi Szereto’s The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers. This book will leave you wondering if it’s ever really possible to know who’s behind the mask you’re allowed to see.
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Mitzi Szereto – The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers – Reviewed 1/5/19 – Read 1/2-3/20
Do you really know the person next to you, or next door to you, or even at the event you’re at????
@ddeegott When you look back over history you will find death but at the hands of whom? Bringing together some of the most prominent authorities on serial killers, crime writers, true-crime podcasters, journalists and experts in the dark crimes field, all giving their expertise in each of their fields to bring this book to life. History has given us killers like Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffry Dahmer but even further back we have the Victorian period of William Palmer, known as the Rugely Poisoner, with as many as 15 victims, another being Jack the Ripper in 1888 and many others.
The US FBI state that 67% of serial killers are from right here in the USA! But, in another report from Virginia’s Radford University and Florida Gulf Coast University, they state that there is a decline in those figures. So many things could have changed this as we leap forward in our forensic science. Better trained and equipped police forces, and even to the fact that the public is aware more today than ever, that there is the possibility of them among us in our daily lives.
This was not written to make famous or glorify the killers but to bring forward yet again that they do exist right here and now. Experts have no clue as to what makes a serial killer or when it would start. It could be even a minor event that triggers the deep-seated desires to set them off. Many are from sexual frustrations or parental abuse to even bullying from peers. No one knows for sure and each case study is on an individual basis. We are made aware that we are not even safe from our physicians or nurses as the author listed several that killed many through lethal drugs.
What did I like? I am not a gruesome seeker by any means, but I am a person that likes to know what is going on around me. I like everyone else in the world has heard about serial killers all our lives in one way or another, newspaper, radio or word of mouth. I was quite surprised by several of these accounts listed in this book. I did a little search on Wikipedia, and I found this link that starts out listing serial killers as far back as 331 BC. Now that was a shocker!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_before_1900 Even one that lists them by the number of victims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_by_number_of_victims When I was searching for clipart to go with this review I found one of a woman serial killer. She looks just like the woman that might be part of the carpool or next door but she was a serial killer dubbed the “CafeMom” Karla Homolka, along with her husband Paul Bernardo killed 3 women, one was her own sister. They drugged her and raped the 15 yr old and she was believed to have died by choking on her vomit from the drug. I think that everyone should read a book like this one. We all need a shock in our way of thinking that we are safe in our own environment. Our own little world is really not that safe after all.
What will you like? The research that went into the book shows on every page. The details are gruesome but thurl. The interviews in some cases are shocking but interesting. Some of the methods of killing are rather inventive and some are just really weird! The shocking answers as to what set off the killers are incredible. Some of them, you just would have shaken your head, and forgotten, are just the things that lead to so many deaths. It will really make you wonder what has happened in the world, that there could be so many cruel and demented people walking among us??? I know that I will be more attentive to things around me, my medicines and many other little things that I would have never thought of before reading this book. A very interesting and informative read!!!
• File size: 1649 KB
• Print Length: 288 Pages
• Release Date: November 19, 2019
• Genre: Forensic Psychology, Popular Forensic Psychology
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