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Author
Language
English
Description
In this memoir, a forensic psychiatrist chronicles her work with more than 80 serial killers and her thoughts on what compels them.
Judging by appearances, Dr. Helen Morrison has an ordinary life in the suburbs of a major city. She has a physician husband, two children, and a thriving psychiatric clinic. But her life is more than that. She is one of the world's leading experts on serial killers, and has spent as many as four hundred hours...
Judging by appearances, Dr. Helen Morrison has an ordinary life in the suburbs of a major city. She has a physician husband, two children, and a thriving psychiatric clinic. But her life is more than that. She is one of the world's leading experts on serial killers, and has spent as many as four hundred hours...
10) Incendiary
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Documents the nearly two-decade manhunt for a serial bomber in mid-twentieth-century New York, citing the contributions of police captain Howard Finney and psychiatrist James Brussel in developing investigative techniques that would shape new approaches in American law enforcement." --
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This episode looks at possible reasons why persons become killers. Dr. Dorothy Lewis puts forth the explanation that according to her studies, there is a history of brain injury, mental disease, and child abuse in killers. Two mass murderers (Terrance Wainright, Arthur Shawcross) are profiled.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Find out what truly creates and defines a psychopath, from the leading expert who helped to create Killing Eve's Villanelle. Dr. Mark Freestone has worked on some of the most interesting, infamous and disturbing cases of psychopathology in recent years, and now shares his phenomenal insight into the minds of violent criminals. Angela "the Remorseless", a rare female psychopath, casually confessed to murder on national television without a hint of...
14) The Acid King
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A murder in a small Long Island town reveals the dark secrets lurking behind the seemingly peaceful façade in this latest installment of the Simon True series. On June 19, 1984, seventeen-year-old Ricky Kasso murdered Gary Lauwers in what local police and the international press dubbed a "Satanic Sacrifice." The murder became the subject of several popular songs, and television specials addressed the issue of whether or not America's teens were...
15) Law & disorder
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"For twenty-five years, John E. Douglas worked for the FBI, where he headed the elite Investigative Support Unit. The real-life model for FBI Agent Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, he's had a brilliant and terrifying career, getting inside the minds of notorious murderers and serial killers including Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and David Berkowitz (Son of Sam). Written with long-time collaborator Mark Olshaker, Law & Disorder is Douglas'...
