32. Ressler and Shachtman, Whoever Fights Monsters, loc. 646, Kindle.
33. Daily News (New York, NY), March 5, 1961, 74.
34. Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, HI), June 3, 1962, 2.
35. News Leader (Staunton, VA), April 24, 1953, 14.
36. Daily Press (Newport News, VA), January 22, 1961, 24.
37. https://www.stoppingpoints.com/north-carolina/sights.cgi?marker=Pineland+College-+Edwards+Military+Institute&cnty=Sampson [inactive].
38. The Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu HI), June 3, 1962, 2.
39. Daily News (New York, NY), May 20, 1962, 371.
40. Daily Press (Newport News, VA), February 17, 1961, 9.
41. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Barrington (accessed January 19, 2020).
42. Daily News (New York, NY), April 8, 2001, 46.
43. https://www.scotusblog.com/2013/01/opinion-recap-rees-clarified-after-forty-six-years/.
44. Craig Whitlock and April Witt, “Deathbed Tale Offers a Solution to 1955 Slayings,” Washington Post, June 15, 2000, A1, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-06/15/089r-061500-idx.html.
45. San Antonio Express (San Antonio, TX), August 29, 1964, 7.
46. Cheney, Why: The Serial Killer in America, 30.
47. Olsen, The Misbegotten Son, 189.
48. Tom Williams, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders of the Vietnam Veteran (Cincinnati, OH: Disabled American Veterans, 1980).
49. Lionel Dahmer, A Father’s Story (New York: William Morrow, 1994), 33–34.
50. Stephen J. Giannangelo, The Psychopathology of Serial Murder: A Theory of Violence (London: Praeger, 1996), 68.
51. Dahmer, A Father’s Story, 212.
52. Joel Norris, Henry Lee Lucas (New York: Zebra Books, 1991), 42.
53. Michael Newton, Serial Slaughter: What’s Behind America’s Murder Epidemic? (Port Townsend, WA: Loompanics, 1992), 64.
54. Rachel Manning, Mark Levine, and Alan Collins, “The Kitty Genovese Murder and the Social Psychology of Helping: The Parable of the 38 Witnesses,” American Psychologist 62, no. 6 (2007): 555–62.
55. Nicholas Lemann, “A Call For Help: What the Kitty Genovese Story Really Means,” New Yorker, March 10, 2014, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/10/a-call-for-help.
56. Robert D. McFadden, “Winston Moseley, Who Killed Kitty Genovese, Dies in Prison at 81,” New York Times, April 4, 2016.
57. Jeff Pearlman, “Infamous ’64 Murder Lives in Heart of Woman’s ‘Friend,’” Chicago Tribune, March 12, 2004.
58. Nadia Fezzani, Through the Eyes of Serial Killers: Interviews with Seven Murderers (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2015), loc. 3598–99, Kindle.
59. Aamodt, “Serial Killer Statistics.”
Chapter 5. The Big Surge: The Baby Boomer Serial Killers Come of Age 1970–1979
1. John B. Dickson, Twenty-Five Murders [and Probably More]: Looking for a Reason: The Juan Corona Trials and Confessions (Xlibris, 2012), 19.
2. Ed Cray, Burden of Proof: The Case of Juan Corona (New York: Macmillan, 1973), 196–202.
3. Vernon J. Geberth, Practical Homicide Investigation: Tactics, Procedures, and Forensic Techniques, 4th ed. (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2006), 501, citing Bell and Weinber (1978) in R. Crooks and K. Baur, Our Sexuality, 4th ed. (Redwood City, CA: Benjamin/Cummings Publishing, 1990), 317, 324, 332–33, 340.
4. Geberth, Practical Homicide Investigation, 501.
5. Tracy Kidder, The Road to Yuba City: A Journey into the Juan Corona Murders (New York: Doubleday, 1974).
6. Skip Hollandsworth, “The Lost Boys,” Texas Monthly, April 2011, https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-lost-boys/.
7. Pampa Daily News (Pampa, TX), August 20, 1973, 8.
8. Jack Olsen, The Man with the Candy: The Story of the Houston Mass Murders (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974), 32, Kindle.
9. Olsen, The Man with the Candy, 51–52, Kindle.
10. Hollandsworth, “The Lost Boys.”
11. Hollandsworth, “The Lost Boys.”
12. Olsen, The Man with the Candy, 59, Kindle.
13. Craig Malisow, “The Girl on the Torture Board,” Houston Press, October 15, 2014, https://www.houstonpress.com/news/the-girl-on-the-torture-board-rhonda-williams-opens-up-about-being-attacked-by-dean-corll-6736780.
14. Malisow, “The Girl on the Torture Board.”
15. Alyssa Newcomb, “New Victim Discovered in Decades-Old Candyman Serial Killing Case,” ABC News, February 8, 2012, https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/02/new-victim-discovered-in-decades-old-serial-killing-case.
16. https://beyondthedash.com/obituary/david-owen-brooks-1079355835.
17. Fred Grimm, “Florida Serial Killer Eluded Conviction but not COVID-19”, South Florida Sun Sentinel, June 12, 2020; Gina Tron, “Green River Killer Gary Ridgway Denied Release Amid Coronavirus Concerns, Oxygen.com, April 24, 2020.
18. Olsen, The Man with the Candy, 139, Kindle.
19. Dennis McDougal, Angel of Darkness (New York: Warner Books, 1991), loc. 1405, Kindle.
20. Vronsky, Serial Killers, 234.
21. David Schmid, Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 221, Kindle, citing Richard Tithecott, Of Men and Monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Construction of the Serial Killer (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997), 73.
22. Leslie Maitland, “For Singles, Scene Has Sordid Side,” New York Times, November 1, 1974, 41.
23. David J. Krajicek, “NYPD slow to make the connection in Park Plaza Hotel slayings,” Daily News (New York, NY), March 1, 2014, https://www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/doom-service-upper-west-side-flophouse-article-1.1707471.
24. https://murderpedia.org/male.J/j/jackson-calvin.htm.
25. “Shift Sleuth for Not Seeing Murder Pattern at Hotel,” Daily News (New York, NY), September 24, 1974, 5.
26. Donald Flynn, “Jury Given the Key to Park Plaza Hotel,” Daily News (New York, NY) March 11, 1975, 115.
27. https://www.apartmentratings.com/ny/manhattan/parc-77_10024/ (accessed February 5, 2020).
28. https://foursquare.com/v/scaletta-ristorante/4ad914d4f964a520ec1721e3/menu; https://www.westsiderag.com/2018/03/23/scaletta-ristorante-to-close-after-30-years-saying-landlord-pushed-them-out; https://patch.com/new-york/upper-west-side-nyc/uws-italian-restaurant-scaletta-close-after-30-years-report (accessed February 5, 2020).
29. Joan Didion, “Los Angeles Notebook,” in We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), 162. (First published in Slouching Toward Bethlehem, 1968.)
30. Earl James, Catching Serial Killers: Learning from Past Serial Murder Investigations (Lansing, MI: International Forensic Services, 1991), 297.
31. Reno Gazette-Journal, October 29, 1997, 13.
32. Donald T. Lunde and Jefferson Morgan, The Die Song: A Journey into the Mind of a Mass Murderer (New York: W. W. Norton, 1980), 165.
33. Lunde and Morgan, The Die Song 207.
34. Ressler and Shachtman, Whoever Fights Monsters, 148.
35. Don West, “Students Hunt Missing Coeds,” San Francisco Examiner, February 14, 1973, 3.
36. Michael M. O’Brien, “Interview of Former Special Agent of the FBI Patrick J. Mullany (1966–1986),” FBI Oral History Project, Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, Inc., August 29, 2005, 29.
37. “Body is Identified—SC Girl”, Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 24, 1973, 1
38. Donald T. Lunde, Murder and Madness (New York: W. W. Norton, 1979), 199.
39. Olsen, The Misbegotten Son, 3.
40. Watertown Daily Times, May 12, 1972.
41. Fezzani, Through the
Eyes of Serial Killers, loc. 866–83, Kindle.
42. Malcolm Gladwell, “The Criminal Brain,” Independent, May 3, 1997, https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-criminal-brain-1259436.html.
43. Fezzani, Through the Eyes of Serial Killers, loc. 1041–44, Kindle.
44. Olsen, The Misbegotten Son, 209.
45. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, Guilty by Reason of Insanity: A Psychiatrist Explores the Minds of Killers (New York: Random House, 2009), loc. 288–89, Kindle.
46. Will Astor, “Hard Work Is This Judge’s Chief Conviction,” Rochester Business Journal, October 25, 2002, https://rbj.net/2002/10/25/hard-work-is-this-judges-chief-conviction/.
47. Human Drug Testing by the CIA, 1977: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, 95th Cong. 117–18 (1977).
48. Vronsky, Female Serial Killers, 277.
49. Aly Vander Hayden and Benjamin H. Smith, “These Are the Crime Scene Photos from the BTK Killer’s Twisted Murders,” Oxygen.com, August 31, 2018, https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/crime-time/crime-scene-photos-btk-killer-murders.
50. Derf Backderf, My Friend Dahmer (New York: Abrams, 2012), 96–97.
51. http://www.robertkressler.com/ex_lived.html (Archived November 20, 1997).
52. Robert K. Ressler and Tom Shachtman, I Have Lived in the Monster: A Report from the Abyss (New York: St. Martin’s, 1997), 116–18.
53. David Usborne, “Soldiers, Sexual Abuse—and the Serial Killer: The US Military’s Secret Sexual Assaults,” Independent, June 28, 2013, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/soldiers-sexual-abuse-and-the-serial-killer-the-us-military-s-secret-sexual-assaults-8679271.html.
54. Jon Nordheimer, “All-American Boy on Trial,” New York Times Magazine, December 10, 1978.
55. Egger, The Killers Among Us, 75.
Chapter 6. Mindhunters: The Serial Killer Epidemic 1980–1990
1. M. A. Farber, “Leading the Hunt in Atlanta’s Murders,” New York Times, May 3, 1981, ProQuest.
2. O’Brien, “Interview of Former Special Agent of the FBI Patrick J. Mullany (1966–1986),” 29, 31.
3. Stanley Pimentel, “Interview of Former Special Agent of the FBI Howard D. Teten (1962–1986),” FBI Oral History Project, Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, Inc., November 19, 2004.
4. Patrick Mullany, Matador of Murder: An FBI Agent’s Journey in Understanding the Criminal Mind (self-pub., 2015), 63–64, Kindle.
5. Becky Shay, “Items Owned by ’74 Murder Victim Found,” Billings Gazette, October 12, 2005, https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/items-owned-by-murder-victim-found/article_bc5dae98-5e27-5094-be3d-5b8769d84122.html.
6. Mullany, Matador of Murder, 68, Kindle.
7. Rachel King, Don’t Kill in Our Names: Families of Murder Victims Speak Out Against the Death Penalty (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003), 17.
8. King, Don’t Kill in Our Names, 21–22.
9. Mullany, Matador of Murder, 73, Kindle.
10. Gallatin County Prosecutor’s Office, Interview with David Meirhofer, September 29, 1974.
11. Great Falls Tribune (Great Falls, MT), October 4, 1974, 4.
12. O’Brien, “Interview of Former Special Agent of the FBI Patrick J. Mullany (1966–1986),” 28.
13. Morton, US Department of Justice. 2014. p. 5
14. Ressler quoted in Philip Jenkins, Using Murder, 67.
15. New York Times, February 2, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/nyregion/etan-patz-pedro-hernandez-guilty.html.
16. Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate on Patterns of Murders Committed by One Person, in Large Numbers with No Apparent Rhyme, Reason or Motivation, 95th Cong, 14–16 (1983).
17. Kenneth Chew, Richard McCleary, Maricres Lew, and Johnson Wang, “The Epidemiology of Child Homicide in California, 1981 Through 1990,” Homicide Studies 3, no. 2 (May 1999): 151–69.
18. David Finkelhor, Gerald Hotaling, and Andrea Sedlak, “The Abduction of Children by Strangers and Nonfamily Members: Estimating the Incidence Using Multiple Methods,” Journal of Interpersonal Violence 7, no. 2 (June 1992): 226–43.
19. Joel Best, “Missing Children: Misleading Statistics,” Public Interest 92 (1988), 92.
20. Ressler and Shachtman, Whoever Fights Monsters, 229–30.
21. Robert Lindsey, “Officials Cite a Rise in Killers Who Roam U.S. for Victims,” New York Times, January 21, 1984.
22. Jim Mattox, Attorney General of Texas, Henry Lee Lucas Report, April 1986.
23. G. Jack Urso, http://www.aeolus13umbra.com/2012/04/arthur-john-shawcross-monster-on.html.
24. Olsen, The Misbegotten Son, 274, Kindle.
25. Olsen, The Misbegotten Son, 360, Kindle.
26. Lewis, Guilty by Reason of Insanity, loc. 272, Kindle.
27. Mike Aamodt, http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/Shawcross%20Presentation.pdf.
28. Aidan Sammons, Criminological Psychology, “Physiological Theories of Offending,” psychlotron.org.uk.
29. Jamie Schram, “Cannibal Recipes for Discerning Diners,” Weekly World News, February 3, 2004, 34.
30. Fezzani, Through the Eyes of Serial Killers, loc. 581–91, Kindle.
31. Fezzani, Through the Eyes of Serial Killers, loc. 895–903, Kindle.
32. Katie Karp, “The Tragic Death of Felicia Stephens,” https://urresearch.rochester.edu/fileDownloadForInstitutionalItem.action?itemId=28271&itemFileId=143265.
33. Craig Fox, “41 years later: Shawcross victim receives a headstone,” Watertown Daily Times, November 27, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20180704033422/http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20131127/NEWS07/711279992.
Chapter 7. The Last Serial Killers: Twilight of the Epidemic Era 1990–2000
1. JT Hunter, A Monster of All Time: The True Story of Danny Rolling, The Gainesville Ripper (RJ Parker Publishing, 2018), 11, Kindle.
2. https://www.geni.com/people/James-Rolling/6000000034217057430.
3. Robbie Cavis Rolling (Phelps), https://www.geni.com/people/Robbie-Rolling/6000000034217259306.
4. Claudia Rolling, transcript of videotaped deposition, May 8, 1992.
5. Phenix-Girard Journal (Girard, AL), September 4, 1936, 1. See also: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/pike/newspapers/gnw233robertel.txt.
6. Danny Rolling and Sondra London, The Making of a Serial Killer (Portland, OR: Feral House, 1996), 34.
7. Rolling and London, The Making of a Serial Killer, 102.
8. Tallahassee Democrat, February 26, 1994, 33.
9. Rolling and London, The Making of a Serial Killer, 137.
10. Tampa Tribune, September 15, 1993, 6.
11. “Expert: ‘Exorcist III’ May Have Influenced Rolling,” Florida Today, March 18, 1994, 24.
12. “For Some, Fear Will Never Go Away,” Palm Beach Post, September 2, 1990, 11.
13. Rolling and London, The Making of a Serial Killer, 17.
14. James Fox and Jack Levin, Killer on Campus: The Terrifying True Story of the Gainesville Ripper (New York: Avon Books, 1996), 171.
15. Rolling and London, The Making of a Serial Killer, 153–54.
16. Quoted in Richard L. Schwoebel, Explosion Aboard the Iowa (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1999), 254.
17. House of Representatives, U.S.S. Iowa Tragedy: An Investigative Failure, report of the Investigations Subcommittee and Defense Policy Panel of the Committee on Armed Services, March 5, 1990.
18. Robert Keppel, The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 102.
19. Egger, The Killers Among Us, 75.
20. Seltzer, Serial Killers, 1.
21. Brian Masters, “Dahmer’s Inferno,” Vanity Fair, Nove
mber 1991, https://www.vanityfair.com/style/1991/11/jeffrey-dahmer-dennis-nilsen-serial-killer.
22. Milwaukee Police Department, Supplement Reports, 08-08-91, 131.
23. Milwaukee Police Department, Supplement Reports, 07-24-91, 20–21; 07-23-91, 34–35.
24. Milwaukee Police Department, Supplement Reports, 07-25-91, 37.
25. Schmid, Natural Born Celebrities, 221, Kindle, citing Tithecott, Of Men and Monsters, 73.
26. Brian Masters, The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer (London: Coronet Books, 1993), 85, Archive.org PDF edition.
27. Dahmer, A Father’s Story, 122.
28. Masters, The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer, 107.
29. Arthur S. Reber, The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology, 4th ed. (London: Penguin Books, 2009), 706.
30. Milwaukee Police Department, Supplement Reports, 08-05-91, 126–27.
31. Milwaukee Police Department, Supplement Reports, 07-30-91, 68.
32. Milwaukee Police Department, Supplement Reports, 08-08-91, 132.
33. Ian Brady, The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis (Los Angeles: Feral House, 2001), 87–88.
34. Masters, The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer, 123.
35. Milwaukee Police Department, Supplement Reports, 08-22-91, 151.
36. Masters, The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer, 128.
37. Milwaukee Police Department, Supplement Reports, 08-08-91, 132.
38. Milwaukee Police Department, Supplement Reports, 08-22-91, 157–58.
39. Milwaukee Police Department, Supplement Reports, 08-22-91, 157.
40. Tobin Beck, “Tape: Police Thought Boy Was Dahmer’s Adult Lover,” UPI, August 1, 1991, https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/08/01/Tape-Police-thought-boy-was-Dahmers-adult-lover/4451681019200/ (accessed March 6, 2020).
41. Beck, “Tape: Police Thought Boy Was Dahmer’s Adult Lover.”
42. Milwaukee Police Department, Supplement Reports, 07-24-91, 24.
43. Masters, The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer, 165.
44. Masters, “Dahmer’s Inferno.”
45. Dave Rossie, “A ‘Ripping’ Tale, New Age Style,” Star-Gazette (Elmira, NY), April 5, 1994, 4.
Epilogue: The Post-Epidemic Era 2000–2020
1. Morton, US Department of Justice. 2014. p. 5
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