First published in Great Britain in 2010 by WHARNCLIFFE TRUE CRIME An imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd 47 Church Street Barnsley South York shire S70 2AS
Copyright Nigel Blundell, 2010
ISBN 978-1-84563-118-5
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Contents
Is this man the most evil serial killer of modern times? |
House of Horrors where children were tortured to death |
Hi, Im Ted, was chat-up line of the slick, sick charmer |
Executions in the Australian Bush by the Backpack Killer |
Smell of death led police to morgue of the Killer Clown |
Young girls starved to death in killers secret dungeon |
Sick lust of the vile couple who went hunting for virgins |
Kidnappers who garrotted teen victims with wire and pliers |
Five men wrongly jailed for murders that are still a mystery |
Americas first serial killer could have claimed 200 victims |
Mother and son grifters were partners in countless crimes |
Poisoner watched as family and friends writhed in agony |
Mysterious Hillside Stranglers were vicious cousins in crime |
Mother who ordered her sons to burn their sister alive |
Bind, Torture, Kill taunt of killer who bragged of his crimes |
Chessboard Killer disposed of his victims in a citys sewers |
Couple who kidnapped slaves and buried victim alive |
Kidnap killer collected a harem he kept chained in basement |
Blunders that freed woman hater to become a serial slayer |
Moors Murders: crimes against children sickened a nation |
Sexual mutilation was sick trademark of the Scorecard Killer |
Snuff movies sideline of the killers who filmed victims agony |
Girls lured to parties at pig farm that became a charnel house |
I prowl the streets for tasty meat, wrote Son of Sam |
Students stalked by knife-wielding campus killer |
Cover-ups and foul-ups hid an epidemic of hospital slayings |
Britains most prolific serial killer left 24-year trail of corpses |
David Parker Ray drugged and killed his victims in a $100,000 homemade torture chamber he called his toy box, which was equipped with what he referred to as his friends: whips, chains, pulleys, straps, clamps, leg spreader bars, and surgical blades and saws.
Between 1967 and 1987, Fred West and his wife Rosemary tortured, raped and murdered at least 12 young women and girls, mostly at the couples home, Number 25 Cromwell Street.
Handsome, suave and deadly, Ted Bundy was one of the most feared serial killers in American history and evaded capture for years.
Grinning gun-toting Ivan Milat was a ritual killer who preyed on backpackers in Australia.
John Wayne Gacy murdered and dismembered young men he lured to his home. Police found the remains of 29 bodies.
Herman Mudgett gassed many of his victims by forcing them into a trunk in one of the death chambers within his Chicago Torture Castle.
Smirking Lawrence Bittaker facing the death sentence in court in 1981 first murder trial in California to be televised.
Graham Young poisoned friends, colleagues and family members, displaying neither sympathy nor remorse for their suffering.
Gerald Gallego is captured after being sniffed out by bloodhounds, so ending a murderous rampage by the sadistic killer and his willing female accomplice.
Kenneth Bianchi, one of a pair of Californian killers, testifies in court against his accomplice Angelo Buono.
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