Peter Vronsky

Un libro sobre la evolución de los asesinos en serie y los factores que determinan su naturaleza.Antes de que se acuñara el término «asesinos en serie» solo había «monstruos», criminales atroces y sá

A comprehensive examination into the frightening true crime history of serial homicideincluding information on Americas most prolific serial killers such as:Jeffrey Dahmer Ted Bundy Co-ed Killer Ed Kemper The BTK Killer Highway Stalker Henry Lee Lucas Monte Ralph Rissell Shoe Fetish Slayer Jerry Brudos Night Stalker Richard Ramirez Unabomber Ted Kaczynski Ed Gein The Butcher of Plainfield Killer Clown John Wayne Gacy Andrew Cunanan And more...In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in Ancient Rome through fifteenth-century France on to such notorious contemporary cases as cannibal/necrophile Ed Kemper, the BTK killer, Henry Lee Lucas, Monte Ralph Rissell, Jerry Brudos, Richard Ramirez, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and the emergence of what he classifies as the serial rampage killer such as Andrew Cunanan, who murdered fashion designer Gianni Versace.Vronsky not only offers sound theories on what makes a serial killer but also makes concrete suggestions on how to survive an encounter with onefrom recognizing verbal warning signs to physical confrontational resistance. Exhaustively researched with transcripts of interviews with killers, and featuring up-to-date information on the apprehension and conviction of the Green River killer and the Beltway Snipers, Vronskys one-of-a-kind book covers every conceivable aspect of an endlessly riveting true crime phenomenon.INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

From the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why we are drawn to their horrifying crimes.Before the term was coined in 1981, there were no "serial killers." There were only "monsters"--killers society first understood as werewolves, vampires, ghouls and witches or, later, Hitchcockian psychos.In Sons of Cain--a book that fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized true crime--investigative historian Peter Vronsky examines our understanding of serial killing from its prehistoric anthropological evolutionary dimensions in the pre-civilization era (c. 15,000 BC) to today. Delving further back into human history and deeper into the human psyche than Serial Killers--Vronskys 2004 book, which has been called the definitive history of serial murder--he focuses strictly on sexual serial killers: thrill killers who engage in murder, rape, torture, cannibalism and necrophilia, as opposed to for-profit serial killers, including hit men, or "political" serial killers, like terrorists or genocidal murderers.These sexual serial killers differ from all other serial killers in their motives and their foundations. They are uniquely human and--as popular culture has demonstrated--uniquely fascinating.

Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the American "Golden Age" (1950-2000). With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers and Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky has established himself as the foremost expert on the history of serial killers. In this first definitive history of the "Golden Age" of American serial murder, when the number and body count of serial killers exploded, Vronsky tells the stories of the most unusual and prominent serial killings from the 1950s to the early twenty-first century. From Ted Bundy to the Golden State Killer, our fascination with these classic serial killers seems to grow by the day. American Serial Killers gives true crime junkies what they crave, with both perennial favorites (Ed Kemper, Jeffrey Dahmer) and lesser-known cases (Melvin Rees, Harvey Glatman).

In this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who killand the political, economic, social and sexual implications buried with each victim.How many of us are even remotely prepared to imagine our mothers, daughters, sisters or grandmothers as fiendish killers? For centuries we have been conditioned to think of serial murderers and psychopathic predators as menwith women registering low on our paranoia radar. Perhaps thats why so many trusting husbands, lovers, family friends, and children have fallen prey to the female monster. From historys earliest recorded cases of homicidal females to Irma Grese, the Nazi Beast of Belsen, from Britains notorious child-slayer Myra Hindley to Honeymoon Killer Martha Beck to the sensational cult of Aileen Wournosthe first female serial killer-as-celebrityto cult killers, homicidal missionaries, and our pop-culture fascination with the sexy femme fatale, Vronsky not only challenges our ordinary standards of good and evil but also defies our basic accepted perceptions of gender role and identity.INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

Antes de que se acuñara el término «asesinos en serie» solo había «monstruos», criminales atroces y sádicos que eran vistos como hombres lobo, vampiros, demonios o, más tarde, psicópatas. Pero cuando