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A comprehensive examination into the frightening history of serial homicide--including information on America's most prolific serial killers such as: "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 - Ted Bundy - 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, 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 one--from 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, Vronsky's one-of-a-kind book covers every conceivable aspect of an endlessly riveting true-crime phenomenon. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

In this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill--and 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 men--with women registering low on our paranoia radar. Perhaps that's why so many trusting husbands, lovers, family friends, and children have fallen prey to "the female monster." From history's earliest recorded cases of homicidal females to Irma Grese, the Nazi Beast of Belsen, from Britain's notorious child-slayer Myra Hindley to 'Honeymoon Killer' Martha Beck to the sensational cult of Aileen Wournos--the first female serial killer-as-celebrity--to 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

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--Vronsky's 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).

Masshtabnoe issledovanie psikhologii serijnykh ubijts, vkljuchajuschee takie znamenitye imena, kak: - Dzheffri Damer; - Ted Bandi; - Ed Kemper; - BTK; - Genri Li Lukas; - Dzherri Brudos; - Richard Ramires (Nochnoj okhotnik); - Richard Chejz (Vampir-Ubijtsa); - Ted Kachinskij; - Ed Gin; - Dzhon Uejn Gejsi (Kloun-ubijtsa); - Endrju Kjunenen; - Geri Ridzhuej (Ubijtsa s Grin-River)... ...I mnogie drugie. Otkuda vzjalis serijnye ubijtsy i kto byl pervym "zaregistrirovannym" manjakom v istorii? Na kakie kategorii oni deljatsja soglasno motivam i kak eto vlijaet na ikh prestuplenija? Na chem "popadalis" samye znamenitye serijnye ubijtsy v istorii i kak etomu pomog profajling? Chto zastavljaet ikh ubivat snova i snova? Kak vyzhit, povstrechav manjaka? Vse, chto vy khoteli znat o fenomene serijnykh ubijstv, v etoj masshtabnoj knige kriminalnogo istorika Pitera Vronskogo. Tschatelno prorabotannaja i napolnennaja zakhvatyvajuschimi istorijami samykh znamenitykh manjakov - ot Dzheffri Damera i Teda Bandi do Dzhona Uejna Gejsi i Geri Ridzhueja, kniga "Serijnye ubijtsy" stremitsja ponjat bezumie, kotoroe imi dvizhet. A takzhe pokazyvaet, pochemu my tak oderzhimy tru-krajmom i fenomenom serijnykh ubijstv. - "Serijnye ubijtsy" - otlichnaja kniga... Esli vas uvlekaet chelovecheskij razum i myshlenie serijnykh ubijts, eta kniga dlja vas". - Round Table Reviews

Masshtabnoe issledovanie serijnykh ubijts epokhi "zolotogo veka" ot kriminologa i tru-krajm-pisatelja Pitera Vronski. Ed Kemper, Ted Bandi, Kharvi Glatmen, Dzhon Uejn Gejsi, Dzheffri Damer... Eti i mnogie drugie serijnye ubijtsy, proslavivshiesja na ves mir, terrorizirovali Ameriku v period s 1950-kh po 1990-e gody. Pochemu imenno etot period stal epokhoj rastsveta serijnykh ubijts? I chto delaet manjakov "zolotogo veka" takimi privlekatelnymi - i do sikh por populjarnymi - v massovoj kulture? Iz etoj knigi vy uznaete: * Kak Vtoraja mirovaja vojna povlijala na vsplesk serijnykh ubijstv. * Chem manjaki "zolotogo veka" otlichajutsja ot ubijts predyduschikh i posledujuschikh epokh. * Kak nevidannyj vsplesk prestupnosti polozhil nachalo profajlingu. * Chi ubijstva stali naibolee uzhasnymi i izvraschennymi. * Pochemu "zolotoj vek" serijnykh ubijstv navsegda ostalsja v proshlom. Kriminalnyj istorik, doktor nauk Piter Vronski, vsestoronne issleduja fenomen "zvezdnykh" manjakov, otvechaet na vse eti voprosy. Obemnaja i uvlekatelnaja, ego kniga pokazyvaet, pochemu zhutkie prestuplenija znamenitykh serijnykh ubijts stali popkulturnym fenomenom i do sikh por budorazhat nashe soznanie.Perevodchik Golybina Irina Dmitrievna

Totuus on tarua hyytävämpää.1900-luvun jälkipuoliskolla Yhdysvalloissa koettiin ennennäkemätön sarjamurhien aalto. Miten ilmiö on selitettävissä, ja miksi se on sittemmin - toivon mukaan pysyvästi - laantunut?Vuosina 1950-2000 Yhdysvalloissa elettiin sarjamurhaajien “kultakautta”. Tuona aikana heidän määränsä kasvoi räjähdysmäisesti. 1990-luvulla sarjamurhista oli tullut jo niin yleisiä, että amerikkalaiset olivat tottuneet niihin ja kohutuimpien tappajien uhrilukuja saatettiin seurata kuin urheilutuloksia.Etsiessään syitä ilmiön voimistumiseen Peter Vronsky käy läpi poikkeuksellisimmat murhatapaukset ja kuuluisimpien sarjamurhaajien tarinat 1950-luvulta 2000-luvun alkuun, Ted Bundysta Golden State Killeriin. Samalla hän kuvaa lainvalvontaviranomaisten ja oikeuspsykiatristen yhteisöjen reaktioita sekä avaa ilmiön historiallista, sosiologista ja kulttuurista taustaa.Peter Vronsky on kanadalainen tutkiva historioitsija, kirjailija ja elokuvantekijä. Hän on väitellyt Toronton yliopistosta rikosoikeuden historiasta ja vakoilusta kansainvälisissä suhteissa. Vronsky on kirjoittanut useita kirjoja, mm. rikoshistorialliset bestsellerit Serial Killers - The Method and Madness of Monsters (2004) sekä Female Serial Killers - How and Why Women Become Monsters (2007).

Totuus on tarua hyytävämpää.1900-luvun jälkipuoliskolla Yhdysvalloissa koettiin ennennäkemätön sarjamurhien aalto. Miten ilmiö on selitettävissä, ja miksi se on sittemmin - toivon mukaan pysyvästi - laantunut?Vuosina 1950-2000 Yhdysvalloissa elettiin sarjamurhaajien “kultakautta”. Tuona aikana heidän määränsä kasvoi räjähdysmäisesti. 1990-luvulla sarjamurhista oli tullut jo niin yleisiä, että amerikkalaiset olivat tottuneet niihin ja kohutuimpien tappajien uhrilukuja saatettiin seurata kuin urheilutuloksia.Etsiessään syitä ilmiön voimistumiseen Peter Vronsky käy läpi poikkeuksellisimmat murhatapaukset ja kuuluisimpien sarjamurhaajien tarinat 1950-luvulta 2000-luvun alkuun, Ted Bundysta Golden State Killeriin. Samalla hän kuvaa lainvalvontaviranomaisten ja oikeuspsykiatristen yhteisöjen reaktioita sekä avaa ilmiön historiallista, sosiologista ja kulttuurista taustaa.Peter Vronsky on kanadalainen tutkiva historioitsija, kirjailija ja elokuvantekijä. Hän on väitellyt Toronton yliopistosta rikosoikeuden historiasta ja vakoilusta kansainvälisissä suhteissa. Vronsky on kirjoittanut useita kirjoja, mm. rikoshistorialliset bestsellerit Serial Killers - The Method and Madness of Monsters (2004) sekä Female Serial Killers - How and Why Women Become Monsters (2007).