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Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
299 p.
Language
English
Description
No two stories about the capture of a serial killer are the same. Sometimes, the killers make crucial mistakes; other times, investigators get lucky. And the process of profiling, hunting, and apprehending these predators has changed radically over time, particularly in the field of criminal forensics, which has exploded in the last ten to 15 years. Laser ablation, video spectral analysis, cyber-sleuthing, and even DNA-based genetic genealogy are...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 474 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
It all started when journalist Jillian Lauren asked LAPD Homicide Detective Mitzi Roberts about which case Roberts was most proud of closing. "Samuel Little," Roberts answered. The now 79-year-old Little had murdered approximately 90 women over six decades and repeatedly got away with the murders due to lack of evidence (or jurisdiction); Roberts finally brought him to justice by tying him to the murders of three Los Angeles women. Surprised she had...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1980, John Douglas-- the legendary FBI profiler then in the early years of his career--was called in to the manhunt for a white supremacist serial killer. A highly mobile and experienced sniper, the fugitive Joseph Paul Franklin was suspected of racially motivated murders around the country. Not only was he capable of taking even more innocent lives, there was also a fear that he would target President Jimmy Carter during the 1980 presidential...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 558 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of Devil in the White City and Furious Hours comes the haunting true story of Eliot Ness's forgotten final case-his years-long hunt for "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run," a serial killer who terrorized Cleveland through the 1936 World Fair"--
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The FBI criminal profiler and inspiration for the "Mindhunter" series shares the stories of four of the most complex predatory killers of his career, offering previously undisclosed insights into his strategies and profiling process.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
292 pages
Language
English
Description
The pulse-pounding story of the first time in history that the FBI Behavioral Unit created a profile to catch a serial killer. On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing. Somebody hadslit open the back of her tent and snatched her from under their noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into thin air, plucked by a shadow. The largest manhunt in Montana's...
8) Inside the mind of BTK: the true story behind thirty years of hunting for the Wichita serial killer
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
344 p. : photos ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then in 1986 he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, true crime journalist Michelle McNamara was determined to find the violent psychopath she called "the Golden State Killer." Michelle pored...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A look at the 1910-1919 New Orleans murders committed by the Axeman, the surrounding trial of later-exonerated Iorlando and Frank Jordano, and the likelihood that the Axeman continued to murder after he left New Orleans.