The Killers Among Us: An Examination of Serial Murder and Its InvestigationFor undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Special Topics in Criminal Justice, Deviance, Criminal Investigation, Special Topics in Policing, and Advanced Criminology. Explicit in detail, yet sensitive in perspective, this text describes and analyzes the phenomenon of serial murder and discusses why these killers kill as well as various methods of identifying and catching them. It provides vital and up-to-date information to criminal investigators, criminologists, crime writers and anyone interested in the phenomenon of serial murder. Detailed case studies of seven infamous serial killers are presented Henry Lee Lucas, John Wayne Gacy, Kenneth Bianchi, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Joseph Miller, and Jerry Marcus with an in-depth cross-analysis of these cases. An exploration of the history and challenges related to the investigation of serial murder is also included. |
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... convicted of thirty - seven murders , seven aggravated murders , and one felonious assault . He pled guilty to avoid the death penalty . He claims to have killed eighty - seven people ( CNN , 1993 ) and is believed by others to have ...
... convicted of killing three young boys near Omaha , Nebraska , in 1983 , and he is believed to have killed others . He is on death row at the Nebraska State Prison ( see Pettit , 1990 ) . As part of a plea bargain to avoid the death ...
... convicted of a number of murders . Many consider Genene Jones a serial killer , although she was convicted of only one killing . When she was found guilty of the murder of fourteen - month - old Chelsea McClellan at a pediatrics clinic ...
Contents
PART THE SERIAL MURDER PHENOMENON | 1 |
Why Do They Kill and Kill and Kill? | 15 |
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