Serial Killers & Mass Murderers: Profiles of the World's Most Barbaric Criminals

Nigel Cawthorne

Jan 2007 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Shocking true stories of the world’s most notorious criminals from the author of Prince Andrew: Epstein, Maxwell and the Palace.

Serial Killers & Mass Murderers takes you into the minds of the criminals who committed the world’s most notorious and horrifying crimes. Each of the sadistic murderers profiled here was once known simply as someone’s neighbor, co-worker or child. What turned them into killers? In one chilling chapter after another, this book profiles a terrifying succession of homicidal maniacs and asks the question, “What makes them tick?”

Through the pages of this haunting book, you’ll delve into the psyches of . . .

• Jeffrey Dahmer
• The Zodiac Killer
• Dr. Harold Shipman
• Son of Sam
• The Columbine Killers
• Charles Manson
• The Night Stalker
• The Yorkshire Ripper
• Ted Bundy
• Charles Starkweather
• The Boston Strangler
• And more

“The refrigerator contained meat, including a human heart, in plastic bags. There were three human heads in the freezer. Two more skulls were found in a pot on the stove. Another pot contained male genital organs and severed heads, and there were the remains of three male torsos in the trash.”

Ratings and reviews

Serial Killers and Mass Murders was interesting to read but the grammar was a little off.

good book, straight to the facts and interesting

Great reading love it

About the author

Nigel Cawthorne has 28 years of experience as a writer and editor. He has written, contributed to and edited more than sixty books on subjects as diverse as skiing, computing, finance, fashion, sex, war, politics, art, music, engineering, science, history, crime and American football. His work has also appeared in over a hundred and fifty newspapers, magazines and partworks on both sides of the Atlantic. He lives in London.