Ladwig Dane - Serial killers true crime anthology. 2014 vol 1

Serial Killers

True Crime Anthology 2014

By True Crime Writers

Peter Vronsky

Michael Newton

Sylvia Perrini

Dane Ladwig

RJ Parker

Copyright @ 2014

RJ Parker Publishing, Inc.

ISBN-13:978-1494325893

ISBN-10:1494325896

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Introduction

Serial killers; they cross the bounds of darkest evil. They murder at random without logic or reason other than the one twisting in their sick and evil minds. They are diabolical vile creatures devoid of morality or pity. You will meet a chosen few of them in these pages. We will see that serial killers are roaming among us all, from small towns to big cities. They are not limited to a particular place, gene pool, culture, social class or religion. They are not restricted to any particular demographic, political propensity and they can be of any gender.

We have adopted in this anthology the FBI-NCAVC 2005 San Antonio Symposium definition of serial killer as an individual who has murdered two or more people on separate occasions with a cooling off period between murders (this cooling off period varies with each serial killer). They kill for many different reasons, from sexual gratification to profit, anger, hate and thrills. Despite this new lower two-victim threshold for serial killers, it is not an exaggeration to claim that the handful of few serial killers chosen for this anthology collectively amassed at least five hundred victims and probably more.

As you will read in this anthology, serial killers commit grotesque acts of murder and mutilation but they are not insane; they coldly know what they do and go to any ends to cover their tracks. Serial killers are popularly thought to be of high intelligence, but studies reveal the opposite. While they score low to middle on Intelligence Quotient (IQ) tests, many are possessed of an animal cunning and charisma which makes them seem super intelligent.

Some of the serial killers chosen for this first annual Serial Killers True Crime Anthology you might have heard of and we present their tales in new ways. Others have not graced every newspaper, tabloid or television screen and represent tales of true crime horror told in detail for the first time in these pages. Five of true crimes most prolific authors have come together in these pages to present their most compelling cases of serial homicide, famous and not so famous.

Along the male serial monsters described here, you will also discover serial killers who were historically expected to be nurturers in our society: women to whom children looked to for assurance, comfort and security and instead found death and torture. One in nearly every six serial killers is a woman. Celebrated British author Sylvia Perrini has penned some of the most cutting-edge books on female serial killers and she delves here into the murderous exploits of Martha Wise whose preferred method of choice was arsenic poisoning, and Mary Bell who killed her first victim when little Mary was eleven-years-old, perhaps the youngest serial killer ever on record.

The history of serial killers goes back to the dawn of time when humans first walked the earth. Criminal justice historian and bestselling author Peter Vronsky compares the serial killer brain to a fictional zombies brain to explain why human serial killers exist while describing his brief encounter with serial killer Richard Cottingham, The Torso Killer, in his article Serial Killer Zombie Apocalypse and the Dawn of the Less Dead: An Introduction to Sexual Serial Murder Today.

Bestselling master true crime author Michael Newton brings us the story of the Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory, a Hungarian aristocrat who bathed in the blood of virgin peasant girls because she thought it preserved her beauty; Bathory perhaps is the most ruthless female serial killer to have ever lived. Michael Newton also tells the tales of former Sweetwater, Florida, Police Officer Manuel Pardo, a rare serial killer cop and the story of death rows Nazi Transvestite, Frank Spisak.

Taking a step back in time, serial killers have plagued the United States since its founding in 1776. Notable author Dane Ladwig reveals an engaging and fascinating view into a pioneering family of serial killers as he excavates and probes the Midwest of Americas heartland and retraces the steps of the first-family of serial killing, the Bloody Benders. He also reveals the mind of a serial killer in an up-close and personal interview with convicted rapist and serial killer, Timothy TK Wayne Krajcir.

Award winning bestseller true crime author and indie publisher RJ Parker examines and searches through the convoluted minds of serial killers such as the Bible-quoting pig farmer Robert Pickton and the recent case of Anthony Sowell the Cleveland Strangler, two of the most notorious recent fiends to plague our communities in search of victims to prey upon.

Our collaboration to present accounts of some of the most malicious inhuman predators and the stories of their innocent tragic victims marks the first of a proposed annual Serial Killer True Crime Anthology. We look forward to bringing you the next volume in this series. Please visit the authors websites listed in their Bio where you can gain a broader view of their past and current projects.

Our most sincere gratitude, Sylvia Perrini, Peter Vronsky, Michael Newton, Dane Ladwig, RJ Parker.

Prologue

Serial Killer Zombie Apocalypse and the Dawn of the Less Dead:
An Introduction to Sexual Serial Murder Today
by Peter Vronsky

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I am an American and I killed Americans.
I am a human being, and I killed human beings;
and I did it in my society.
Edmund Kemper

In the beginning was the Word...

The Gospel of John, 1:1

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Some serial killers are like drooling zombies with bared teeth driven by primitive hunger to attack, bite, rape, kill, rape again, mutilate, dismember, harvest or eat body parts from the corpses of their victims in a weirdly ritualistic and compulsive instinctual frenzy. I believe that zombie stories today are about serial killing in the same way as in the past tales of vampires, werewolves, demons, and ghouls were often really about unidentified human monsters roaming among us: serial killers, lust murderers and necrophiles.

Slowly shuffling up on us in the 1950s and 1960s, serial killers were overrunning us in what seemed like zombie waves by the 1970s and 1980s. By the mid-1980s Congress declared war on a serial killer epidemic in response to claims that there might be hundreds of unidentified serial killers murdering as many as 4,000 victims a year. But we are not out of the woods yet.

While some sources argue that serial murder has been declining since the 1990s, along with the dramatic drop in general of murder in the USA, from a historic high of 24,760 homicides in 1993 down to 14,612 by 2011, other sources contend that the rate of serial killings might actually be increasing. With the trucking industrys adoption of GPS tracking and logbook data keeping, the FBI is reconstructing the past movements of suspected truckers by linking their trucking data to unsolved homicide occurrences and their locations in the hope of identifying some of the killers.

The result is that while serial killers are indeed still rare, their rate of increase might be escalating upwards toward some kind of critical mass still awaiting us in the future; hopefully in the near future, before it reaches the apocalyptic epidemic proportions algorithmically guaranteed if the current claimed rate of increase does not abate.