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Abandonment, feelings of (see Childhood histories)
Abductions, 38, 42, 67, 85, 113, 123, 126, 132, 134–136, 138, 142, 149–151, 155–157, 161, 164, 168, 191, 192, 209, 214, 215, 269, 271–276, 282–284
Abramowitz, Barney, 52–53, 59–60, 62–63
Abramowitz, Rose, 52–53, 62–63
Adams, Fanny, 38
Adams, Irwin Howard, 154–155
African Americans, 1–4, 36, 52, 54–55, 90–91, 143, 144, 190, 201, 205, 264, 289, 310, 326–327, 357–359, 383
serial killers, 20, 25, 36, 56–65, 144, 199n
Aguirre, Frank, 209–210
AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), 213
Ainsworth, Steve, 140
Albrecht, Brigitte, 216
Alcala, Rodney, “the Dating Game Killer,” 85, 220, 379
Altocalciphilia, 18
American Psychiatric Association, 94, 179
American Psychological Association, 337
Amokoscisia, 19
Anarchists, 89, 90
Anderson, Erhardt, 56, 58
Anderson, Evelyn, 55–58
Animal cruelty, 30, 169, 173, 174, 182, 184
Anthropophagy, 19
Anzilloti, Robert, 195
Armed Services congressional subcommittee, 337–338
Armstrong, John Eric, 375
Arson, 79, 173, 182–183
Asher, Richard, 249
Assassins, psychology of, 278, 280
Atlanta, Georgia, 25, 143–144, 282
Atomic bombs, 92, 95
Attorney General’s Task Force on Violent Crime, 282
Auden, W. H., 97
Ault, Richard, 268
Aura states, 304–306
Autoerotic asphyxiation, 122, 147
Backderf, Derf, 254, 373
Bailey, F. Lee, 188
Baker, Frederick, 38
Baker, Mary, 50, 63, 64
Balaam, Anthony, 375
Ball, Joe, “Alligator Man/Butcher of Elmendorf,” 36
Barnabet, Clementine, 199n
Baumeister, Herbert, 85
Beach, James, 158
Beam, Christopher, 7
Benzedrine, 162, 163, 169
Berdella, Robert, 85
Berkowitz, David, “the Son of Sam,” 5, 7, 9, 85, 186, 219–220, 223, 252, 261, 280, 372
Best, Joel, 283–284
Bianchi, Kenneth, “the Hillside Strangler,” 9, 85, 174, 185, 222, 252
Bibbens, Dolly, 41
Biblical passages, 39, 49, 225, 226, 278, 321
Bird, Jake, “Axeman of Tacoma,” 36
Bittaker, Lawrence Sigmund “the Tool Box Killer,” 85, 186, 222
Bizarre magazine, 125, 128
Black Dahlia murder, 48, 85
Blackburn, Dorothy, 296–297
Bladel, Rudy, 192–193
Blair, Terry A., 383
Blake, Jack, 236–240, 242–243, 249–250, 301, 310, 376
Blake, Mary Agnes, 236–239
Blake, Pam, 236
Blake, Pete, 236–238
Blake, Robert, 375
Blase, Irene, 195, 197
Blatty, William Peter, 327
Bloch, Robert, 117
Blood, drinking, 220, 348
Bloody Benders, 19
Body parts, harvesting, 4–6, 86, 93, 114, 115, 191, 275, 346, 358, 362, 369–371
Bolin, John, 159
Bombings, 89–90
Bond, Thomas, 265
Bondage, 38, 105, 106, 108, 112, 113, 129–130, 145–148, 154
photographs, 125–128, 132, 134, 139, 145, 251
Bone Collector, 383
Bonin, William, “the Freeway Killer,” 85, 215, 221–22
Boston Strangler (see DeSalvo, Albert)
Boston Strangler, The: The Public Conviction of Albert Desalvo and the True Story of Eleven Shocking Murders (Kelly), 188
Boyd, Lucious, 375
Bradehoft, Joseph Arthur, 371–372
Bradshaw, Hazel, 41
Brady, Ian, “the Moors Murderer,” 354–355
Brancato, Lillo Jr., 375
Brashers, Robert Eugene, 375
Brenner, Joseph Lee III, 91
Bresciani, Tiffany, 373, 374
Breslin, Jimmy, 219
Bridgeford, Shirley Ann Loy, 131–134, 136, 138, 139
Bright, Kathryn, 252
Bright, Kevin, 252
Brokaw, Tom, 95
Brooks, David Owen, 204, 208, 212, 213
Brooks, Pierce, 136–138, 260, 281, 282, 379
Brooks, Virginia, 40–41
Brown, Frances “Fanny,” 66, 67, 71, 300
Brudos, Jerome Henry “Jerry,” 9, 85, 86, 174, 185, 191, 198
Brussel, James, 265, 267
Bryant, Bill, 276
Buckner, Virginia, 157
Budd, Edward, 32, 33
Budd, Grace, 32–33
Bundy, Carol, 289
Bundy, Ted, 5, 7–9, 11, 15, 64, 85, 105, 110, 156, 185, 186, 199, 246, 252, 258–261, 283, 284, 288, 314, 338, 339, 372, 383
Buono, Angelo, “the Hillside Strangler,” 9, 85, 222, 252
Burgess, Ann, 268, 278, 280
Burglaries, 69–72, 77, 79, 83, 123, 176, 183
Byers family, 25
Bystander apathy, 189
Caldwell, Marion, 68, 71
Cannibalism, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 22, 32–33, 39, 45, 48, 85, 101, 104, 105, 216, 245, 290, 307, 360, 362, 369–370
Carter, Jimmy, 254
Carter, Rosalynn, 215, 254
Carver, Betty Ruth, 119–120
Catoe, Jarvis Theodore Roosevelt, “the Dupont Circle Killer,” 36, 49–54, 56–65, 108, 113
Catoe, John, 61, 62
Celebrity serial killers, 5–7, 9, 219, 288, 375, 377, 383
Chandler, Raymond, 221
Chaney, Lon, 167
Chapman, Mark David, 246
Charcot, Jean-Martin, 249
Chase, Richard, 85
Chicago, Illinois, 65–76, 80–81
Childhood histories, 27, 28, 45, 48, 77–80, 102, 122–123, 164, 169–176, 181, 184–187, 215, 224, 225, 249, 254, 270, 298, 306, 319–321, 343, 344, 348
Christie,
Agatha, 35
Chromosomal abnormalities, 306
Churchill, Winston, 92
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 137, 247, 248, 305
Cicero, June, 300, 303
Cincinnati Strangler, 191–192
Clark, Douglas, “the Sunset Strip Killer,” 85, 102, 288–289
Clark, Jessie, 31
Clark, Sanford, 31
Clayton, New York, 182
Cleckley, Hervey M., 77, 110
Cleland, John, 37
Clothing fetishes, 79, 83, 125, 126, 144–145, 185, 191, 251
Cohn, Lenora, 26
Cold War, 105, 109
Cole, Carroll Edward, 85, 185
Coleman, Alton, 86
Collins, John Norman, 85, 86, 191
Combat psychoneurosis, 93–94
Combat stress reaction (CSR), 93, 177
Comics Code Authority (CCA), 113
Conde, Rory Enrique, 375
Confessions, 43, 47, 57–58, 62–63, 73–77, 84, 129, 138, 139, 168, 193, 195, 242, 243, 261, 275, 277, 285, 303–304, 335, 343, 379
Contract and gangland killers, 11
Cooling-off period, 10, 148, 200, 376n
Coppola, Francis Ford, 305
Coprophilia, 18
Corll, Arnold Edwin, 206–207
Corll, Dean, “the Candy Man,” 8, 85, 204–214, 261, 284
Corll, Mary, 206–207
Corll Candies, 204–207
Corona, José Natividad, 202, 203
Corona, Juan, “the Yuba Peach Orchard Killer,” 8, 85, 200–204, 214, 261, 284, 372
Coronavirus pandemic, 212, 384
Costa, Antone Charles “Tony,” 192
Cota, Celia, 41
Cottingham, Richard Francis, “the Times Square Torso Ripper,” 85, 86, 102, 186, 193–197, 216, 220–221, 286, 287, 379
Cottingham, William, 186
Craven, Wes, 312
Crawford, Andre, 375
Cream, Thomas Neill, 21, 88
Crilley, Cornelia Michel, 220
Cronin, Tom, 215
Cunanan, Andrew, 200, 214–215, 375–376n
Dahmer, David, 255, 344
Dahmer, Grandmother, 346–350, 352, 353, 355–359
Dahmer, Jeffrey, “the Milwaukee Cannibal,” 2–7, 183–185, 215–216, 254–259, 322, 341–373, 375, 377, 383
Dahmer, Joyce, 183–184, 255, 343–344
Dahmer, Lionel, 183–184, 255, 258, 343–344, 348–350, 356, 357
Dancy, Florence, 52, 55, 60, 61, 63
Darrow, Clarence, 34
Davis, B. W. Jr., 158
Daytona Beach Killer, 383
De River, J. Paul, 42, 43, 47–48, 109–110, 265
Dean, James, 149
DeAngelo, Joseph James, “the Golden State Killer,” 223, 379
Decapitation, 4, 67, 74, 114, 133, 159, 171, 180, 193, 194, 216, 221, 229, 232, 233, 235, 259, 277, 282, 289, 304, 314–315, 331, 352, 354, 358–363, 368, 369, 371, 372
Degnan, Suzanne, 67–69, 71, 72, 74–76, 80–81
Demme, Jonathan, 336
Denke, Karl, 22
Denver, Colorado, 25, 121–123, 125, 126, 130
DeSalvo, Albert, “the Boston Strangler,” 10, 113, 187–188, 198, 252, 265, 317, 322, 372
Devil, 228, 287, 321, 342, 348
Diabolus in cultura, 86–88, 104, 109, 117, 384
Diana, 333
Diane’s Studio, 135
Didion, Joan, 221
Dismemberment, 4, 5, 23, 33, 35, 38, 40–41, 46, 48, 67, 68, 74, 75, 80, 81, 114, 115, 180, 192, 214, 231–234, 257, 277, 345, 347, 352, 354, 358, 360–362, 368, 372
Disorganized visionary mission serial killer, 227
Divorce rate, 102
DNA analysis, 148, 158, 166, 188, 243, 263, 334, 335, 377–379
Dominique, Ronald, 383
Donlan, Harry E., 47
Double murders, 149–151, 154, 157, 168, 193, 313–314, 328–329
Douglas, John, 147, 188, 264, 268, 278, 280, 281, 336
Doxtator, James Edward, 353–354
Drizin, Steven A., 74–75
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), 248
Drugs, 87, 178, 214, 225, 227, 321, 322
Du Bois, W. E. B., 90
Dudley Do-Right animated cartoons, 146
Dull, Judith Ann “Judy” Van Horn, 119–121, 127–130, 132, 134, 138, 139, 141
Dull, Robert L., 119, 120, 128, 129
Dull, Susan, 119, 120
Dunbar, Pete, 269–271, 273
Duncan, Joseph E. III, 383
Dupont Circle Murders (see Catoe, Jarvis Theodore Roosevelt)
Durousseau, Paul, 383
Durrant, Theodore “Theo,” 21
Dust Bowl, 91
Dyer, Albert, “Inglewood Babes Murders,” 41–42
East Side Ripper, 26, 34
Eastbound Strangler Killer, 383–384
Eastman, Norm, 106
Ecclesiastical authorities, 17
Edwards, Tracy, 1–3, 341–343, 372
Efron, Zac, 261
Eggelston, Denise, 154–155
Egger, Stephen, 87, 260, 339–340
Eichmann, Adolf, 377
Eisler, Robert, 13
Elliott, Todd C., 26
Ellis, Walter E., 383
Entertainment media, 10, 105–107, 117, 118
Equivocal death analysis, 337, 338
Erotic literature, 37–38, 64
European serial killers, 16, 21–23, 26–27, 1738
Everett, Mabel, 52
Everett, Pamela, 43
Evonitz, Richard, 375
Exceptionally cleared cases, 286
Exhibitionism, 61, 79, 255, 348, 350
Exorcist, The (Blattty), 327
Exorcist II, The (movie), 327, 342n
Exorcist III, The (movie), 327–328, 342–343
Falasca, Denise, 195, 197
False confessions, 59, 68, 76, 285–286
Fantasies, 16, 18, 37, 45, 76, 86, 128, 145, 147, 174, 226, 232, 235, 251, 255–256, 344–347, 349
(see also Serial killers)
Farber, Myron A., 263
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 11, 39, 65, 77, 102, 108, 148, 154, 160–161, 164–166, 197, 232, 236, 261, 336–339
BAU (Behavioral Analysis Unit), 10, 15, 160, 281
BSU (Behavioral Science Unit), 10, 137, 264–273, 277, 279–281, 287, 303, 333, 338, 379
Criminal Personality Research Project, 280
FBI Academy, Quantico, Virginia, 265–267, 269
HSKI (Highway Serial Killings Initiative), 39, 43, 65, 77, 102, 108, 111, 384
NCAVC (National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime), 10, 160, 281, 284
Sexual Homicide study by, 15
ViCAP (Violent Criminal Apprehension Program), 10, 137, 138, 281–284, 333, 379–382
(see also Serial killers)
February 9 Killer, 383
Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 248
Federal Kidnapping Act (Lindbergh Law), 161, 166
Feete, B. Lee, 150
Fellers, Irwin Jr., 150
Fellers, Mary Elizabeth, 149–151, 157, 163, 168
Female clothing, 79, 83, 125, 126, 144–145, 185, 191, 251
Female paraphilias, 19
Female serial killers, 11, 19, 24, 26, 199n, 249
Female serial poisoners, 19, 26
Females, hate for, 48, 107, 219–220
Femme fatale, 103
Fetishes, 18, 27, 37, 39, 40, 79, 80, 83
Fezzani, Nadia, 193, 244–246, 307–308
Film noir, 103
Financial crisis of 2008
, 384
Fingerprint identification, 71, 83, 287
First Special Service Force (FSSF) (Devil’s Brigade), 98–99
Fish, Albert, “the Werewolf of Wisteria/the Grey Man,” 10, 26, 31–34, 39, 49, 85, 113
Fish, Janet A., 310
Flagellationism, 19, 38
Fogerty, John C., 384
Ford, Wayne Adam, 375
Foster, Jodie, 260, 336–337
Fox, Nancy, 253
Francis, Kathy, 227
Franklin, Joseph Paul, 85, 246
Franklin, Lonnie Jr. “the Grim Sleeper,” 379
Frazier, John Linley, “the Environmentalist Killer,” 223–225, 228, 249
Free Bill Heirens clubs, 74
Frontal lobe, 78, 305
Frontier violence, 19
Gacy, John Wayne, 5, 7–9, 85, 102, 105, 215, 254, 284, 372
Gaffney, Billy, 34
Gainesville, Florida, 312–317, 325–335, 326–334, 341
Gallego, Charlene, “the Sex Slave Killer,” 222–223
Gallego, Gerald, “the Sex Slave Killer,” 85, 222–223
Gay serial killers, 1–5, 22, 201–202, 204, 207–209, 213–216, 255–259, 376n
Gaynor, Alfred, 375
Geberth, Vernon, 201–202, 216, 284
Gebhardt, Miriam, 92
Gecht, Robin, 86
Gein, Augusta, 114–115
Gein, Edward, “the Plainfield Ghoul” or “Original Psycho,” 5, 10, 113–118, 169, 191, 198, 289, 336, 364, 372, 373
Gein, George, 114
Gein, Henry, 114
Genovese, Kitty, 189–190, 200, 284
Geralds, Hubert, 375
Gianera, James, 227
Gianera, Joan, 227
Gibson, Elizabeth “Liz,” 300, 304
Gillis, Sean Vincent, 383
Gilyard, Lorenzo Jerome Jr., 383
Gladwell, Malcolm, 246, 252
Glatman, Albert, 121–122, 124, 125
Glatman, Harvey Murray, “the Glamor Girl Slayer,” 118–142, 145–149, 169, 191, 198, 221, 251, 260
Glatman, Ophelia, 121–125, 129, 130, 139, 141
Glenn, Scott, 336–337
Goodarzi, Deedeh, 194–195
Gore, David Alan, 86, 289
Goudeau, Mark, 383
Graham, Harrison, 289
Graham, Nathan, 381
Great Depression, 78, 91, 96, 112, 113, 384
Greenwood, Vaughn Orrin, “the Skid Row Slasher,” 192
Griffin, Virginia “Virgie” Lee, 44–47
Grissom family murders, 323–324, 333–335
Grossman, Georg Karl, 22
Groupies, 307–310
Guadalcanal, 94, 101
Guerrero, Richard, 355, 357
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