Rossie, Dave, 374
Routt, Pat (Vivian Storm), 165, 167, 168
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), 382
Rule, Ann, 191, 261, 282–283
Runge, Paul, 375
Ryan, Michael Ann, 151, 154, 168–169
Sade, Marquis de, 18, 37, 162
Sadism, 18, 19, 42, 47
Sadist raffiné (genteel sadist), 109–110
San Antonio Serial Murder Symposium (2005), 10, 263
San Diego Girl Murders/Modern Girl Murders, The, 36, 39–41
Santa Cruz, California, 223, 229–234
Satan, 228, 287, 321, 348
Schaefer, Gary, 85
Schaefer, Gerard, 85
Schall, Cindy, 234
Schall, Cynthia Ann, 229
Schecter, Harold, 7, 375
Schizoid personality disorder (SPD), 350
Schizophrenia, 202–203, 225, 227, 290
Schmid, David, 215, 264, 347
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 162
Scott, John W., 158
Scripting, 37–39, 86, 87, 125, 147
Sears, Anthony Lee, 357–359
Seda, Heriberto, 375
Self-bondage, 122, 145, 251
Seltzer, Mark, 88, 340
Serial killers
adopted, 185–186
African American, 20, 25, 36, 56–65, 144, 199n
age of, 19, 29, 77, 86, 127, 170, 192, 250, 251, 303
animal cruelty and, 30, 169, 173, 174, 182, 184
celebrity, 5–7, 9, 219, 288, 375, 377, 383
childhood histories of, 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
coining the term, 9, 263, 279, 281–282
cooling-off period and, 10, 148, 200, 376n
definitions of, 10–11, 379
disorganized visionary mission, 227
entertainment industry and, 10, 105–107, 117, 118
female, 11, 19, 24, 26, 199n, 249
gay, 1–5, 22, 201–202, 204, 207–209, 213–216, 255–259, 341–373, 376n
golden age of, 7–11
groupies and, 307–310
head injuries and, 27–28, 61, 64, 78–79, 175, 305
insanity plea and, 29, 188, 224, 228, 247, 249, 372
less-dead victims of, 87, 143, 201, 205, 214, 219, 259, 264, 289, 310
memory of, 76–77, 305
missionary-cult type, 11, 85n
murderabilia and, 9, 307, 340
necrophilia and, 15–17, 19–21, 27, 29, 44, 48, 59, 101, 153, 191, 192, 215, 217, 218, 234, 300, 304, 346, 354, 358, 378
1900-1950, 24–110
1950-1969, 111–198
1970-1979, 86–88, 199–262
1980-1990, 263–311
1990-2000, 312–376
organized/disorganized/mixed classifications of, 15, 280, 379
profit killers, 11, 19, 24
regional clusters of, 39
sadist raffiné (genteel sadist), 109–110
scripting and, 37–39, 86, 87, 125, 147
spree killers, 200, 375–376n
in Stone Age to 1930, 13–24
2000-2020, 7–8, 377–384
unsolved cases, 50–51, 53, 55, 63, 143, 196, 197, 254
in U.S. by decade, 8–9
werewolves (lycanthropes), 16, 17
Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (Vronsky), 74, 138, 191, 215, 228n, 264, 284, 377
Serial killing ecology, 87
Servant-Girl Annihilator, 20
Seven Bridges Road Killer, 383
Sexual Criminal, The: A Psychoanalytical Study (De River), 110
Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives (Ressler, Burgess and Douglas), 281
Shactman, Tom, 137
Shawcross, Arthur John, “the Genesee River Killer,” 9, 85, 101, 171–183, 236–250, 289–311, 372, 373
Shawcross, Elizabeth “Betty” Yerakes, 101, 171–174, 176, 179, 181, 239, 290, 291, 295, 296
Shawcross, Hartley Roy, 101
Shawcross, Linda Neary, 176–177, 179–183, 239–240
Shawcross, Penny Sherbino, 291
Shawcross, Roy, 101–102, 171, 173–175, 239, 246, 289, 291
Shawcross, Sarah Chatterton, 176
Shawcross, Thelma June, 101, 173
Sheads, Mary E., 50, 63
Shell shock, 94
Sherman, Lydia, “the American Borgia,” 19
Shomette, Nancy Marie, 151, 154, 168–169
Short, Elizabeth, 48, 85
Shreveport, Louisiana, 317, 318, 322, 323, 326, 333, 335, 341
Shulman, Robert, 375
Signature killings, 35, 141, 329
Silence of the Lambs, The (movie), 10, 117, 260, 289, 336–337, 339, 340, 373–374
Simpson, O. J., 375
Sinthasomphone, Konerak, 364–368
Sinthasomphone, Somsack, 356, 364, 368
Siragusa, Charles, 248
Siragusa, Charles J., 248
Sirhan, Sirhan, 280
Skakel, Michael, 375
Smallgan, Sandra Mae Dykman, 271, 275, 277
Smith, Edward Warren, 361
Smith, Edwin, 94
Smith, James Matthew, 60, 61, 63
Smith, Raymond (Cash-D), 359–360
Snoop Dogg, 375, 376
Social class, 88–89
Social-cultural phenomena, 37, 86–88, 102–105, 109
Sociopathy, 15, 171, 350
Sodium pentothal, 72, 271
Soilax, 353, 354, 359, 361
Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present (Vronsky), 17, 86, 92, 117n, 264
Sowell, Anthony, 86
Spanierman, Pauline, 218
Speck, Richard, 190
Specter, Arlen, 282
Spector, Phil, 375
Spencer, Timothy Wilson, “the Southside Strangler,” 334
Spillman, Jack Owen, 375
Spiral (helicoid) visual field, 81
Spree serial killers, 200, 375–376n
Stage, Nellie, 97
Stano, Gerald, 85, 185–186
Steffen, Anna Marie, 300
Stephens, Felicia, 300, 310
Steward, Mattie, 52, 54, 55, 60
Stewart, Jimmy, 137
Stock market crash of 1929, 91
Stone, Irving, 226
Stott, June, 300
Strand, Ginger, 143, 144
Strangling technique, 58, 64
Straughter, Curtis Durrell, 362
Strieff, Jessie Elizabeth “Betty,” 53–55, 59, 62
Suff, William Lester, 85, 373, 374
Sullivan, Mary, 188
Supreme Court of the United States, 168
Survival instincts, prehistoric, 17
Sutcliffe, Peter, “the Yorkshire Ripper,” 163
Tabloids, 105, 148
Taboada, Manny, 315–316, 331–332
Tarantino, Quentin, 99
Tate, Sharon, 190
Taylor, Denise, 326–327
Television, 111, 112, 118, 129, 288
Teten, Howard D., 265–269, 275, 278
Teuber, Louise, 40
Thick chart syndrome, 249
Thomas, David Courtney, 362
Thorpe, Rosalind, 229, 234–235
Thrill killers, 198
Time magazine, 58, 94, 107, 139, 148
Tipton, Wanda, 154, 155, 164
Tithecott, Richard, 215, 347
Tomei, Henri, 226–227
Toole, Otis, 85, 185
Toppan, Jane, “Jolly Jane,” 19, 199n
> Toronto Police Service, 382
Torture, 39, 48, 91, 104, 106, 112, 186, 194, 204, 207–208, 211, 214, 215, 222
Trading cards, 9, 340
Transient workers, “boomer hobos,” 36, 91, 200–201, 259
Trichophilia, 18
Trippi, Darlene, 300
Trophies and souvenirs, 59, 64, 86, 93, 95, 117, 134, 141, 148, 218, 299
True-detective magazines, 64, 104–108, 112, 113, 117, 126, 127, 142, 145–148, 154, 167, 169, 187, 208, 251, 284, 384
Tuomi, Steven, 351–354
Tuozzo, Frank, 155–156
Tuozzo, June, 155–156
Turner, Lana, 118
Turner, Matt Cleveland, 368, 371
Unemployment rate, 91
U.S. First Marine Division, 101
U.S. Fourth Infantry Division, 246
U.S. Marines, 177, 266, 270, 273, 314
U.S. Navy, 337, 338
University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), 229–234
University of Chicago, 69, 70
University of Florida, 312, 315
University of Maryland, 154, 155, 161, 164, 165
University of Texas sniper killings, 190
Urso, G. Jack, 294
Vacher, Joseph, 21, 37
Vampires, 15–17
Vanasek, Frank J., 171
Vann, Darren Deon, 383
Venable, Shelby Jean, 149–151, 157, 163, 168
Versace, Gianni, 376n
Veterans, 93–95, 101–102, 104, 177–179, 181, 243, 270
Vian, Shirley, 253
ViCLAS (Violent Criminal Linkage Analysis System) (see FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation))
Victorian age, 37, 39, 87, 88
Vietnam War, 93, 105, 177–182, 237, 240, 243–249, 270, 289, 290, 293–295, 305, 307, 322, 332
Vigil, Lorraine, 135–136, 138, 140
Vogel, Nancy, 193–194
Vollmer, August, 267
Voyeurism, 79, 169, 251, 320, 322, 325, 328, 330
Wade, Wilbur, 152
Wall Street Bombing, 90
Wallace, Henry Louis, 375
Walley, Rose Marie, 291–300, 304, 306
Walsh, Adam, 282
Walsh, John, 282
War crimes, 92, 179–181, 190
War on Terror, 384
Washington, D.C., 36, 49–65
Watertown, New York, 182, 236–242, 295, 303, 310
Watts, Carl Eugene, 85–86, 102
Wayne, John, 137, 246
Weinberger, Jeremiah B., 368–369, 371
Weiss, Jennifer, 194–195
Welch, Marie, 300
Werewolf myths, 14
Werewolves (lycanthropes), 16, 17, 167
White, Lawrence, 226
White, Nathaniel, 375
Whitman, Charles, 190
Whoever Fights Monsters (Ressler and Shactman), 137
Wilde, Oscar, 264
Wilder, Chris, 85, 102
Williams, Anna, 253
Williams, Ben, 209–212
Williams, Rhonda, 209–213
Williams, Wayne, “the Atlanta Child Murderer,” 10, 86, 144, 263–264, 281, 282, 338
Willie, John, 125, 128
Wilson, Colin, 37, 83
Wilson, Otto Stephen, “the Walking Dead Killer,” 44–48, 102
Window-peeping, 169, 251, 320, 322, 325, 328, 330
Winkle, Gregory Malley, 206
Witch-hunter inquisitors, 17
Wolfolk, Charles, 56
Women’s liberation, 284
Woodfield, Randy, 85
Worden, Bernice, 113–114
World War I, 27, 89, 94
World War II, 65, 92–103, 105, 111, 177–178, 289, 314, 384
Wound culture, 88
XYY chromosome combination, 306
Yates, Robert, 85
Ypsilanti River/Michigan Murders, 191
Zodiac Killer, 111, 192, 221, 254, 327, 377, 378
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About the Author
Peter Vronsky, PhD, is an investigative historian and a former film and television documentary producer. He is the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters; Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters; and Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present. He is an authority on Canada’s first modern battle, which he has written about in his definitive book, Ridgeway: The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada.
Peter Vronsky holds a PhD from the University of Toronto in the fields of criminal justice history and the history of espionage in international relations. He teaches history at Ryerson University in Toronto. He divides his time between Toronto, Canada, and Venice, Italy.
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* See Sons of Cain for a more detailed description of this phenomenon.
* Looking through the Toronto Police files on a series of child strangulations in the 1950s, I noted reports from schools at the time that children and adolescents were sometimes strangling one another into unconsciousness as a game during recess in the schoolyard.
* In his autobiography, Rolling vehemently denied the entire account, stating he never had any medical instruments and writing, “I did not—repeat, did NOT—and have not EVER—had sex with ANY black woman, least of all this Denise Taylor.”
* Police reports mistakenly reported that it was Exorcist II.
* Some might argue Andrew Cunanan in 1997 was the last prominent serial killer of the decade, but he, like John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo later—the Beltway Snipers in 2002—was a rarer subset of serial killer, a so-called lethargic “spree serial killer” rampaging over a period of weeks or months, never returning to the conventional “normalcy” of his life, to a so-called “cooling-off” period, as “traditional” serial killers do. Cunanan’s infamy was linked to the celebrity of his final victim, fashion designer Gianni Versace. Cunanan was perhaps the last of the “queering” of serial murder in the US, his murders inseparably linked to his sexuality.
* There were female serial killers with comparable victim numbers like Jane Toppan, “Jolly Jane,” who had killed at least thirty-one victims in Massachusetts between 1895 and 1901. Clementine Barnabet, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, participated in thirty-five cult axe murders in Texas and Louisiana, wiping out entire families in 1911. H. H. Holmes in Chicago, in 1894 it was falsely reported in the newspapers, killed twenty-seven victims but was conclusively confirmed to have murdered only four.
* He had not fought as a US Marine in the Boxer Rebellion in China, as I foolishly wrote in 2004 in Serial Killers, unless the Marines were enlisting one-year-olds.
* Female serial killers or profit-motivated materialist serial killers are often included in gross statistics gathered on serial killers, as for example in the Radford University/FGCU (Florida Gulf Coast University) Serial Killer Database, which I often cite.
* If we accept Manson as a “missionary-cult”-type serial killer, inspiring his followers to murder.
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