Foreword
Preface
1. Introduction : the phenomenon of serial murder
Serial murder : fact and fiction
Numbers and types of mass murders and serial killings in the United States
Profile 1.1. Columbine High School Massacre, 1999
Mass murderer classifications
Profile 1.2. Mark Barton, portrait of a mass murderer, 1999
Differences among mass, serial, and spree murderers
Profile 1.3. Virginia Tech Massacre, 2007
Defining homicide, murder, and serial murder
Profile 1.4. Gary Leon Ridgway, the Green River Killer, 1982-1998
Redefining serial murder
San Antonio symposium
Typologies of serial murder
Methodology used in this book
2. Cultural development of monsters, demons, and evil
Cults and the occult
The notion of evil
Profile 2.1. Josef Mengele, 1911-1979
When evil embraces good
Profile 2.2. Gerard Schaefer Jr., evil for evil's sake, 1972-1973
When good embraces evil
3. Psychogenetics of serial murderers
Psychobiology and biochemical theories of violent behavior
Profile 3.1. Arthur John Shawcross, 1972-1990
Insanity : psycho-legal issues
The M'Naughten Rule
The Brawner Rule
The Durham Rule
Incompetency
Mental disorders and personality disorders
Dissociative disorders
Psychoanalytic factors
Profile 3.2. Eric Smith, 1993
Personality disorders
Asperger's disorder and the DSM-IV
Constructing the psychopath
Dr. Robert Hare and psychopaths
Differentiating the sociopath, psychopath, and primary psychopath
Measuring criminal psychopathy
Profile 3.3. Mr. Carter, a psychopath exposed


4. Social construction of serial murder
Social structure theory
Social class theory
Social process theory
Neutralization theory
Social control theory
Labeling theory
The Macdonald Triad
Family dynamics and the MacDonald Triad
Animal cruelty
Enuresis
Fire-setting
Profile 4.1 Portrait of a serial arsonist and pyromaniac
Etiology of serial killing
Trauma-control model of the serial killer
Observations of a male serial murderer
Facilitators
Profile 4.2. Jeffrey Dahmer, 1978-1991
Cyclical nature of serial killing
5. Sexual predators, paraphilia, and murder
Differentiating between sex offenders and sexual predators
Sexual homicides and paraphilia
Profile 5.1. Charles Albright, the Eye Ball Serial Killer, 1990-1991
A spectrum of paraphilia
Factors in paraphilia
Profile 5.2. The doctor rapist
Profile 5.3. Armin Meiwes, the German Cannibal, 2001
Profile 5.4. An auto-erotic death
Profile 5.5. Mary Kay Letourneau, child sex offender
Profile 5.6. North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA)
Dynamics of rape and sexual assault
Rapists typologies
Profile 5.7. Melvin Carter, the College Terrace Rapist (Compensatory Rapist)
Profile 5.8. John Jamelske, serial abductor and rapist
Profile 5.9. The night caller
Profile 5.10. The Stroker
Profile 5.11. The burglar and his sexual fantasies
Profile 5.12. Preying in public
Paraphilia classifications
Preparatory paraphilia
Attack paraphilia
Relational paraphilic attachment (RPA)
Profile 5.13. Westley Allan Dodd, sadistic child killer
Lust killers
Profile 5.14. Theodore Robert Bundy, "Ted," 1973-1978
Profile 5.15. John Edward Robinson, the "Slavemaster," 1984-2000
Profile 5.16. Jerry Brudos, the trophy collector, 1968-1969
Paraphilic fantasy
Uncensored exotics
Signatures of sexual predators
Profile 5.17. Cary Stayner, the Yosemite Park signature killer, 1999


6. Healthcare killers
Profile 6.1. John Riems, sexual predator, 1985-2008
Foreign healthcare providers who kill
Profile 6.2. Dr. Harold F. Shipman, "The Jekyll of Hyde," 1976-1998
The Yorker and Fields Studies
Profile 6.3. Dr. Heinrich Gross, Am Spiegelgrund Klinik, Lebensunwertes Leben, 1940-1945
Care providers and serial murder
Male "angels of death"
Profile 6.4. Efren Saldivar, "Angel of Death," 1988-1998
Profile 6.5. Donald Harvey, 1970-1987
Female care providers who kill
Profile 6.6. Kristen Gilbert, 2000
Profile 6.7. Terri Rachals, 1985-1986
Profile 6.8. Genene Jones, 1978-1982
7. The male serial murderer
Emergence of male serial murderers
Myths of serial murder
African American serial killers
Profile 7.1. Wayne B. Williams, 1980-1981
Profile 7.2. Chester D. Turner, 1978-1998
Mobility, stalking, and victimization
Profile 7.3. Henry Louis Wallace, 1992-1994
Profile 7.4. Carlton Gary, 1977-1978
Profile 7.5. Calvin Jackson, 1973-1974
Profile 7.6. Three traveling serial killers
Stalking
Profile 7.7. Robert Joe Long, 1984
Site and nonsite stalking
Cyberstalking
Stalking fantasy
Victims
Profile 7.8. Edmund Emil Kemper III, 1964-1973
Offenders' backgrounds and occupations
Profile 7.9. Albert Henry DeSalvo, 1962-1964
Profile 7.10. Dennis Lynn Rader, "The BTK Strangler," 1974-1991
Profile 7.11. Robert Hansen, 1973-1983
Profile 7.12. Paul john Knowles, 1974
Disposition of serial killers


8. Team killers
Identifying team killers
Females as masterminds in serial-murder relationships
Profile 8.1. Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, 1977-1978
Profile 8.2. Olga Rutterschmidt and Helen Golay, 1999-2005
Profile 8.3. Martha Beck and Ray Fernandez
Profile 8.4. Tene Bimbo Gypsy Clan, 1984-1994
Profile 8.5. Alton Coleman and Debra D. Brown, 1984
Males as masterminds in serial-murder relationships
Occupations of team serial killers
Profile 8.6. Douglas D. Clark and Carol A. Bundy, 1980
Team killing and mobility
Profile 8.7. Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Elwood Toole, 1976-1982
Ritualism, cults, and child victims
Profile 8.8. Robin Gecht, Edward Spreitzer, and Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis, 1981-1982
Victim selection
Profile 8.9. Dean A. Corll, David O. Brooks, and Elmer Wayne Henley, 1970-1973
Methods and motives
Offender history
Profile 8.10. Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, 1983-1985
Profile 8.11. Gerald A. Gallego Jr. and Charlene Gallego, 1978-1980
Disposition of offenders
9. The female serial murderer
Identifying female serial murderers
Profile 9.1. Betty J. Neumar, "Killer Granny," 1952-2007
Emergence of female serial murderers
Profile 9.2. Aileen Carol Wuornos,1989-1990
Victim selection
Profile 9.3. Nannie Doss, the "Giggling Grandma," 1925-1954
Methods and motives
Profile 9.4. Christine Falling, 1980-1982
Psychopathology of female offenders
Disposition of female offenders
Summary
10. Victims
Demographics of victimization in serial murder
Victim facilitation
Missing and murdered children
Children as victims of serial murderers
Luring children
Agencies for missing, murdered, and exploited children
Other specific victims of male serial murderers
Women
Prostitutes
Gay men
Profile 10.1. The Prostitute Murders, California, 2000-2001
The elderly
Profile 10.2. Randy Kraft, the Southern California Strangler, 1972-1983
Profile 10.3. John Wayne Gacy, 1972-1978
Profile 10.4. Herb Baumeister, 1980-1996
Families
Both men and women
Profile 10.5. James P. Watson, 1910-1920
Profile 10.6. David Richard Berkowitz, 1976-1977


11. Serial murder from a global perspective
Beyond Jack the Ripper
Profile 11.1. The Port Arthur Massacre, 1996
Global issues in serial murder
Profile 11.2. Jack the Ripper, 1888
German serial killers
Profile 11.3A. Fritz Haarmann, the Butcher of Hannover, 1919-1924
Profile 11.3B. Peter Kurten, the Vampire of Dusseldorf, 1883-1931
Assessing global data on serial murder
Profile 11.4. Clifford Robert Olson, 1980-1981
Canadian serial killers
Russian serial killers
Profile 11.5. Robert "Willy" Pickton, operator of the Piggy Palace Good Times Society, 1983-2002
Profile 11.6. Andrei Chikatilo, 1978-1990
Profile 11.7. Alexander Pichushkin, the Chessboard Killer, 1992-2006
The Gorby Study
Serial murder in Japan : the Aki Study
Victims and duration
Mobility
Age and gender
Team killers
Profile 11.8. Kau Kobayashi, 1952-1960
Methods and motives
Sexual activities
Serial murder in South Africa
The Investigative Psychology Unit of the Criminal Records and Forensic Science Services Division of the South African Police Service
Profile 11.9. Stewart Wilken, 1990-1997
Muti murders in South Africa
12. Interviewing serial murderers
Techniques and stumbling blocks
Common problems in interviewing
Empirical phenomenology
An interview with a serial murderer
Interviewing serial murderers
Profile 12.1. Juan Chavez, the MacArthur Park Murderer, 1986-1989
Serial killer reflections
13. Profiling, apprehension, and disposition of serial killers
Forensic science
Profiling
Types of profiling
Problems in profiling
Profile 13.1. Bruce Pardo, the Santa Claus Mass Murderer, 2008
NCAVC and VICAP
Profile 13.2. John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo, the D.C. Snipers, 2002
The University if Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Center : The Body Farm
The hunt for the Unabomber
Unsolved murder cases
Profile 13.3. Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, 1978-1996
Disposition
Sentencing
Capital punishment
Treatment
Future issues and research
Closing thoughts
References
Index.