by Colin Wilson
Killer, A Journal of Murder (the Autobiography of Carl Panzram), edited by James E. Gaddis and James O. Long, Macmillans, New York, 1970.
Sexual Homicide, Patterns and Motives, Robert K. Ressler, Ann W. Burgess and John E. Douglas, Lexington Books, 1988.
The Want-Ad Killer (Carignan), Ann Rule, New American Library.
The Stranger Beside Me (Bundy), Ann Rule, W. W. Norton and Co., New York, 1980.
Encyclopaedia of Murder, Colin Wilson and Pat Pitman, Arthur Barker, 1961.
Encyclopaedia of Modern Murder, Colin Wilson and Donald Seaman, Arthur Barker, 1983, and Pan Books, 1989.
Written in Blood, A History of Forensic Detection, Colin Wilson, Equation Books, 1989.
Jack the Ripper: Summing Up and Verdict, Colin Wilson and Robin Odell, Bantam Books, 1987.
Human Nature Stained, Colin Wilson, Pauper’s Press, 1991.
The Existential Study of Modern Murder, Jeffrey Smalldon, Pauper’s Press, 1991.
Illustrations
(Unless otherwise indicated, all photographs are reproduced courtesy of Associated Press.)
Harvey Murray Glatman, a Californian strangler
Charles Manson (authors’ collection)
George Metesky, the ‘Mad Bomber’ of New York City
Richard Ramirez, alias ‘the Night Stalker’ (authors’ collection)
Robert Diaz, a Los Angeles ‘medical’ serial killer
John Wayne Gacy, a homosexual serial killer (authors’ collection)
David Berkowitz, the ‘Son of Sam’ (authors’ collection)
Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler
Ted Bundy, a Peeping Tom serial killer
Cameron Hooker, a psychopath described as ‘an accident of internal wiring’
Charles Ng
Ed Kemper, a necrophiliac lust killer (authors’ collection)
Members of the FBI’s renowned ‘A Team’ (authors’ collection)
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