Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot

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  INDEX

  A

  Aardsma, Betsy, 68

  accidental deaths, 251–52

  act-focused killers, 202

  Alcala, Rodney, 170

  Alexander, Tammy, 254–55

  Alexander’s Weekly Messenger, 265

  Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing, 80–81

  Allen, Arthur Leigh, 121

  Allen Hall, 160–61

  Alphabet Murders, 278

  America’s Mos
t Wanted, 244

  animal cruelty, 178–79

  Ann Emery Hall, 23, 24, 33, 48

  Anonymous, 272

  anonymous letters, 252–53

  Armstrong, Dwight, 79–80

  Armstrong, Gertrude, 48

  Armstrong, Karleton, 79–84

  Atlanta Child Murders, 152

  autoclaves, 289–90

  Avery, Paul, 136

  avoidant behavior strategies, 46

  Axeman of New Orleans, 20

  B

  Babes of Inglewood Murders, 239, 263

  Badger Army Ammunition Plant, 81–82

  Badger Bus, 31–32

  Balousek, Marvin, 221

  Barker, Anthony, 284

  Baron, Rita, 177–79, 223, 225

  Bauman, Billy, 185

  Behavioral Sciences Unit/Behavioral Analysis Units, 238

  Beineman, Karen Sue, 153

  Bennett, Debra, 96–102, 129

  body of, 100

  as cold case, 113, 305

  compared with Rothschild, 104–7

  Hall compared with, 128, 129–30

  key of returned, 107–9

  linkage with other murders, 201–2

  Lucas and, 256–57

  as missing missing person, 158

  surveillance footage on, 153

  Bergwall, Sture, 255–56

  Berkowitz, David, 9, 167

  Bernardo, Paul, 243

  Betzer Funeral Home, 222

  Bianchi, Kenneth, 238

  Big Otter Creek, Canada, 85

  Binion’s Horseshoe, 115–16

  bite-mark evidence, 235–36

  Black Dahlia murder, 132–34

  Black Horse Pike, Atlantic City, 85

  Blackout Ripper, 77

  blaming the victim, 184–87

  Bleak House (Dickens), 44, 45

  Bloch, Robert, 4

  Bloodsworth, Kirk, 292

  The Blue Dahlia (Chandler), 133

  body dump sites, 85

  Bennett, 103

  geographic profiling and, 195–8

  Hall, 128–29, 183

  LeMahieu, 167–68

  meaning of to killers, 181–82

  of organized vs. disorganized offenders, 180–81