serial murderers

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Presents a selection of articles that examine issues related to serial murder, discussing the nature of serial murder, female serial killers, why serial murderers kill, the struggles of surviving victims and family, and public reactions to serial killers.

Recounts the true story of a serial killer who terrorized Nazi-occupied Paris, leaving severed heads and dismembered body parts throughout the city, and chronicles Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu's investigation into the crimes.

"A prison doctor injects a condemned serial killer with a formula designed to keep his consciousness awake while his body rots in the grave. But all drugs have unforeseen side-effects. Before he could be buried, the killer wakes up. Hungry. Infected. Contagious. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang...but a bite. "--.

Examines the arrest and trial of serial murderer Joseph Vacher, discussing how prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne used forensic evidence and techniques which were new at the time to catch and convict him.

Intelligence officer Ryan Evans, having spent time in Fallujah as the captive of insurgents who forced him to learn to kill by breaking bones and leaving victims to die, returns to Texas only to find himself under suspicion when a serial killer who employs the same method of murder begins abducting young girls--including Evans' own estranged daughter.

FBI behavioral psychologist Daniel Clark becomes the latest victim of a serial killer known as Eve, and the experience left him clinically dead for twenty minutes, leaving Daniel obsessed with rebuilding those twenty lost minutes, even if it means cheating death once more, in order to track down the killer before another victim suffers.

Brad Raines, a special agent for the FBI who is trying to solve a serial killer case in which a bridal veil is left at each crime scene, approaches the Center for Wellness and Intelligence, a psychiatric institution with gifted clients, and when he enlists the help of Paradise, a young woman who can experience the final moments of a person's life when touching their dead body, he wonders if he can prevent the next murder.

Argues that the legendary character Sweeney Todd was an actual historical figure who committed his crimes in eighteenth-century London and was victimized by the poverty and crime that was prevalent in the underworld of that time period.