| Description |
xii, 265 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Profiles in crime |
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Profiles in crime series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-256) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Juan Corona -- Dean Allen Corll, Elmer Wayne Henley, and David Owen Brooks -- Rodney Alcala -- Edmund Kemper -- David Berkowitz -- Ted Bundy -- Vaughn Greenwood -- Herbert Mullian -- The Zebra killers -- Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono -- Patrick Wayne Kearney -- Coral Eugene Watts -- William Bonin -- John Wayne Gacy -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Excerpt from People v. Superior Court (Corona), 30 Cal.3d 193, November 16, 1981 -- Appendix 2. Excerpt from Rodney Alcala's appeal before the United States Court of Appeals, argued February 6, 2003 -- Appendix 3. Excerpt from John Wayne Gacy's appeal in the United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, argued March 4, 1993. |
| Summary |
The Co-Ed Killer, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, and Dating Game Killer; in many ways, terrifying serial killers helped define the 1970s. These fascinating profiles present notorious as well as lesser-known murderers of that decade. Beyond Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz, it includes such perpetrators as Coral Eugene Watts, The Sunday Morning Slasher, who killed 80 women; Edmund Kemper, the "Co-Ed Killer"; and Rodney Alcala, believed to have killed as many as 130 people. |
| Subject |
Serial murderers -- Case studies.
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Serial murder investigation -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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True crime stories.
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| Added Title |
Serial killers of the 1970s |
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Serial killers of the nineteen seventies |
| ISBN |
1454939389 (paperback) |
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9781454939382 (paperback) |
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