Download or read book Psychological Analysis of Confessions by Serial Killers written by August Raines and published by RWG Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychological Analysis of Confessions by Serial Killers by August Raines dives deep into the chilling world of serial killers through their own words. While true crime often captures the grisly details of their deeds, this book focuses on a crucial yet overlooked aspect: their confessions. Raines explores how these confessions serve not just as evidence in court but as profound windows into the criminal psyche. By examining the confessor's words, the book sheds light on the motivations and psychological complexities behind these heinous acts. It also considers the societal fascination with these confessions and their role in shaping public perception. Raines examines how the confessions can sometimes be a strategic maneuver to manipulate or mislead, yet they also provide valuable insights into the human mind. With a focus on the psychological implications and the significance of these narratives in investigations and social discourse, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the deeper dimensions of criminal psychology and the power of confession.

Download or read book Confession of a Serial Killer written by Katherine Ramsland, PhD and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, until he had ten victims. He named himself "B.T.K." (bind, torture, kill) and wrote notes that terrorized the city. He remained on the loose for thirty years. No one who knew him guessed his dark secret. He nearly got away with his crimes, but in 2004, he began to play risky games with the police. He made a mistake. When he was arrested, Rader's family, friends, and coworkers were shocked to discover that B.T.K. had been among them, going to work, raising his children, and acting normal. This case stands out both for the brutal treatment of victims and for the ordinary public face that Rader, a church council president, had shown to the outside world. Through jailhouse visits, telephone calls, and written correspondence, Katherine Ramsland worked with Rader himself to analyze the layers of his psyche. Using his drawings, letters, interviews, and Rader's unique codes, she presents in meticulous detail the childhood roots and development of one man's motivation to stalk, torture, and kill. She reveals aspects of the dark motivations of this most famous of living serial killers that have never before been revealed. In this book Katherine Ramsland presents an intelligent, original, and rare glimpse into the making of a serial killer and the potential darkness that lives next door.

Download or read book Alone with the Devil written by Ronald Markman and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the author's career as a forensic psychiatrist, recounting the many frightening criminals he has faced, including the Hillside Strangler, Juan Corona, and members of the Manson family

Download or read book Real Life Monsters written by Stephen J. Giannangelo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an in-depth psychological analysis of the development of the serial killer personality that will fascinate all readers, from the experienced criminology student to the casual true-crime reader. Real-Life Monsters: A Psychological Examination of the Serial Murderer takes a different approach than most titles on a similar topic: the author develops and proposes an original psychological explanation, rather than simply repeating some of the long-held theories for these criminals' heinous actions. The work addresses current issues, presents detailed commentary and personal observation, and contains photographs that will fascinate general readers interested in the subjects of true crime, serial killers, and psychopathology. The first part of the book carefully examines the research past and present regarding clinical, psychological, societal, and biological bases for violent behavior, specific to the serial murderer. Part two establishes a novel theory of the pattern of violence and then explores this hypothesis through eight case studies, interviews with serial killers, and elemental analysis. The work also contains a chapter based on conversations between the author and a convicted serial murderer.

Download or read book The Psychology of False Confessions written by Gisli H. Gudjonsson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the development of the science behind the psychology of false confessions Four decades ago, little was known or understood about false confessions and the reasons behind them. So much has changed since then due in part to the diligent work done by Gisli H. Gudjonsson. This eye-opening book by the Icelandic/British clinical forensic psychologist, who in the mid 1970s had worked as detective in Reykjavik, offers a complete and current analysis of how the study of the psychology of false confessions came about, including the relevant theories and empirical/experimental evidence base. It also provides a reflective review of the gradual development of the science and how it can be applied to real life cases. Based on Gudjonsson’s personal account of the biggest murder investigations in Iceland’s history, as well as other landmark cases, The Psychology of False Confessions: Forty Years of Science and Practice takes readers inside the minds of those who sit on both sides of the interrogation table to examine why confessions to crimes occur even when the confessor is innocent. Presented in three parts, the book covers how the science of studying false confessions emerged and grew to become a regular field of practice. It then goes deep into the investigation of the mid-1970s assumed murders of two men in Iceland and the people held responsible for them. It finishes with an in-depth psychological analysis of the confessions of the six people convicted. Written by an expert extensively involved in the development of the science and its application to real life cases Covers the most sensational murder cases in Iceland’s history Deep analysis of the ‘Reykjavik Confessions’ adds crucial evidence to understanding how and why coerced-internalized false confessions occur, and their detrimental and lasting effects on memory The Psychology of False Confessions: Forty Years of Science and Practice is an important source book for students, academics, criminologists, and clinical, forensic, and social psychologists and psychiatrists.

Download or read book The Psychology of False Confessions written by Gisli H. Gudjonsson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the development of the science behind the psychology of false confessions Four decades ago, little was known or understood about false confessions and the reasons behind them. So much has changed since then due in part to the diligent work done by Gisli H. Gudjonsson. This eye-opening book by the Icelandic/British clinical forensic psychologist, who in the mid 1970s had worked as detective in Reykjavik, offers a complete and current analysis of how the study of the psychology of false confessions came about, including the relevant theories and empirical/experimental evidence base. It also provides a reflective review of the gradual development of the science and how it can be applied to real life cases. Based on Gudjonsson's personal account of the biggest murder investigations in Iceland's history, as well as other landmark cases, The Psychology of False Confessions: Forty Years of Science and Practice takes readers inside the minds of those who sit on both sides of the interrogation table to examine why confessions to crimes occur even when the confessor is innocent. Presented in three parts, the book covers how the science of studying false confessions emerged and grew to become a regular field of practice. It then goes deep into the investigation of the mid-1970s assumed murders of two men in Iceland and the people held responsible for them. It finishes with an in-depth psychological analysis of the confessions of the six people convicted. -Written by an expert extensively involved in the development of the science and its application to real life cases -Covers the most sensational murder cases in Iceland's history -Deep analysis of the 'Reykjavik Confessions' adds crucial evidence to understanding how and why coerced-internalized false confessions occur, and their detrimental and lasting effects on memory The Psychology of False Confessions: Forty Years of Science and Practice is an important source book for students, academics, criminologists, and clinical, forensic, and social psychologists and psychiatrists.

Download or read book Serial Killers written by Paul Dawson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SERIAL KILLERS 2: MY INTERVIEWS WITH TED BUNDY, CHARLES MANSON & KARLA HOMOLKA by Dr. Paul Dawson reveals three serial killers based on more face-to-face prison interviews Dr. Dawson conducted. Included are new insights and information on Ted Bundy's sex assaults and murderous encounters with his young women victims. Murder scenes have been recreated based on Dr. Dawson's actual prison interviews with Ted Bundy. Prison interviews are included which present the hair-raising and staggering confessions and livid and X-rated interview comments of the all-American psycho known as the "Campus Killer." Dr. Dawson presents the traumatizing, astonishing admissions and scandalous interview comments of the psychopathic serial killer, Charles Manson. This new edition is well researched, cross-validated from various sources, and accurate as possible. Extensive photos. He was the wild-eyed, scraggly-haired Dark Prince of the 1960s. Manson was the demon-hippie, psycho-serial-killer-by-proxy of the Woodstock era who sent his "family" of fanatical, cult-crazed robots out to commit multiple homicides in the mansions of Los Angeles. Dr. Dawson presents a forensic-clinical psychologist's analysis and detailed scrutiny of Karla Homolka. Karla was the significant other in a notorious, degenerate serial-sex-killer couple known as "The Ken and Barbie of Murder and Mayhem" operating from 1990 to 1993 out of Ontario, Canada. Graphic, shocking, and detailed secrets of sex, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder, lies and videotape are revealed in interviews in this book. Dr. Dawson earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from The New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty in New York City; has been a psychologist in clinics, schools, mental hospitals; was chief psychologist of a state prison system; has been in private practice & consulting in New York; he has written over 30 books including: ANGELINA JOLIE PSYCHOANALYZED; BIPOLAR ZOO; BIPOLAR JUNGLE; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; BPD RECOVERY; CHARACTER INTELLIGENCE (CI); CAMPUS KILLER'S SECRET OBSESSION; GRACE KELLY SESSIONS; HOW TO GET SOBER; JACKIE O SESSIONS; JACKIE ONASSIS IN THERAPY; JFK JR MURDERED; JODI ARIAS; MANSON INTERVIEWS RAW; MARILYN MONROE DIAGNOSED; MASKS OF A LADY KILLER; MASKS of PREDATORS; MASKS of SEX PREDATORS; MASKS of TED BUNDY; MY PRINCESS DIANA THERAPY SESSIONS; MY TED BUNDY INTERVIEWS RAW!; NARCOTERRORIST PSYCHOPATHS; PRINCESS DIANA DIAGNOSED; PSYCHOLOGY OF HIDDEN INFLUENCE; PSYCHOLOGY of MEN WHO ABUSE WOMEN; PSYCHOPATHS; ROCK STARS DIAGNOSED; ROYAL SESSIONS; ROYAL SESSIONS 2; ROYAL SESSIONS 3; SERIAL KILLERS; SERIAL KILLERS 2; SERIAL KILLERS 3; SEX CRIMES; SEX, LOVE & SMART DATING; SKULL SCRAPERS: A CAMILLE LAURENT THRILLER (series of thriller novels); SPIES & ASSASSINS; SPIRITUAL THERAPY; TERRORIST IMPERATIVE; THE MASKS OF KARLA HOMOLKA.

Download or read book Serial Murder written by George Martin Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Serial Killers written by Paul Dawson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SERIAL KILLERS: MY INTERVIEWS WITH TED BUNDY, CHARLES MANSON & KARLA HOMOLKA by Dr. Paul Dawson reveals three serial killers based on face-to-face prison interviews Dr. Dawson conducted. Included are new insights and information on Ted Bundy's sex assaults and murderous encounters with his young women victims. Murder scenes have been recreated based on Dr. Dawson's actual prison interviews with Ted Bundy. Prison interviews are included which present the hair-raising and staggering confessions and livid and X-rated interview comments of the all-American psycho known as the "Campus Killer." Dr. Dawson presents the traumatizing, astonishing admissions and scandalous interview comments of the psychopathic serial killer, Charles Manson. This new edition is well researched, cross-validated from various sources, and accurate as possible. Extensive photos. He was the wild-eyed, scraggly-haired Dark Prince of the 1960s. Manson was the demon-hippie, psycho-serial-killer-by-proxy of the Woodstock era who sent his "family" of fanatical, cult-crazed robots out to commit multiple homicides in the mansions of Los Angeles. Dr. Dawson presents a forensic-clinical psychologist's analysis and detailed scrutiny of Karla Homolka. Karla was the significant other in a notorious, degenerate serial-sex-killer couple known as "The Ken and Barbie of Murder and Mayhem" operating from 1990 to 1993 out of Ontario, Canada. Graphic, shocking, and detailed secrets of sex, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder, lies and videotape are revealed in interviews in this book. Dr. Dawson earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from The New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty in New York City; has been a psychologist in clinics, schools, mental hospitals; was chief psychologist of a state prison system; has been in private practice & consulting in New York; he has written over 30 books including: ANGELINA JOLIE PSYCHOANALYZED; BIPOLAR ZOO; BIPOLAR JUNGLE; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; BPD RECOVERY; CHARACTER INTELLIGENCE (CI); CAMPUS KILLER'S SECRET OBSESSION; GRACE KELLY SESSIONS; HOW TO GET SOBER; JACKIE O SESSIONS; JACKIE ONASSIS IN THERAPY; JFK JR MURDERED; JODI ARIAS; MANSON INTERVIEWS RAW; MARILYN MONROE DIAGNOSED; MASKS OF A LADY KILLER; MASKS of PREDATORS; MASKS of SEX PREDATORS; MASKS of TED BUNDY; MY PRINCESS DIANA THERAPY SESSIONS; MY TED BUNDY INTERVIEWS RAW!; NARCOTERRORIST PSYCHOPATHS; PRINCESS DIANA DIAGNOSED; PSYCHOLOGY OF HIDDEN INFLUENCE; PSYCHOLOGY of MEN WHO ABUSE WOMEN; PSYCHOPATHS; ROCK STARS DIAGNOSED; ROYAL SESSIONS; ROYAL SESSIONS 2; ROYAL SESSIONS 3; SERIAL KILLERS; SERIAL KILLERS 2; SERIAL KILLERS 3; SEX CRIMES; SEX, LOVE & SMART DATING; SKULL SCRAPERS: A CAMILLE LAURENT THRILLER (series of thriller novels); SPIES & ASSASSINS; SPIRITUAL THERAPY; TERRORIST IMPERATIVE; THE MASKS OF KARLA HOMOLKA.

Download or read book Serial Killers 2 written by Dr Paul Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SERIAL KILLERS 2: MY INTERVIEWS WITH TED BUNDY, CHARLES MANSON & KARLA HOMOLKA by Dr. Paul Dawson reveals three serial killers based on face-to-face prison interviews Dr. Dawson conducted. Included are new insights and information on Ted Bundy's sex assaults and deadly encounters with his young women victims. Murder scenes have been recreated based on Dr. Dawson's actual prison interviews with Ted Bundy. Prison interviews present the hair-raising and staggering confessions and livid and X-rated interview comments of the all-American psycho known as the "Campus Killer." Dr. Dawson exposes the traumatizing, astonishing admissions and scandalous interview comments of the psychopathic serial killer, Charles Manson. This new edition is well researched, cross-validated from various sources, and accurate as possible. Extensive photos. He was the wild-eyed, scraggly-haired Dark Prince of the 1960s. Manson was the demon-hippie, psycho-serial-killer-by-proxy of the Woodstock era who sent his "family" of fanatical, cult-crazed robots out to commit multiple homicides in the mansions of Los Angeles. Dr. Dawson presents a forensic-clinical psychologist's analysis and detailed scrutiny of Karla Homolka. Karla was the significant other in a notorious, degenerate serial-sex-killer couple known as "The Ken and Barbie of Murder and Mayhem," operating from 1990 to 1993 out of Ontario, Canada. Graphic, shocking, and detailed secrets of sex, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder, lies, and videotape revealed in interviews in this book.Dr. Dawson earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from The New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty in New York City. He has been a psychologist in clinics, schools, mental hospitals; he was chief psychologist of a state prison system; he has been in private practice & consulting in New York. Dr. Dawson has written over 60 books including: ANGELINA JOLIE PSYCHOANALYZED; BIPOLAR ZOO; BIPOLAR JUNGLE; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; BPD RECOVERY; CHARACTER INTELLIGENCE (CI); CAMPUS KILLER'S SECRET OBSESSION; GRACE KELLY SESSIONS; HOW TO GET SOBER; JACKIE O SESSIONS; JACKIE ONASSIS IN THERAPY; JFK JR MURDERED; JODI ARIAS; MANSON INTERVIEWS RAW; MARILYN MONROE DIAGNOSED; MASKS OF A LADY KILLER; MASKS of PREDATORS; MASKS of SEX PREDATORS; MASKS of TED BUNDY; MY PRINCESS DIANA THERAPY SESSIONS; MY TED BUNDY INTERVIEWS RAW!; NARCOTERRORIST PSYCHOPATHS; PRINCESS DIANA DIAGNOSED; PSYCHOLOGY OF HIDDEN INFLUENCE; PSYCHOLOGY of MEN WHO ABUSE WOMEN; PSYCHOPATHS; ROCK STARS DIAGNOSED; ROYAL SESSIONS; ROYAL SESSIONS 2; ROYAL SESSIONS 3; SERIAL KILLERS; SERIAL KILLERS 2; SERIAL KILLERS 3; SEX CRIMES; SEX, LOVE & SMART DATING; SKULL SCRAPERS: A CAMILLE LAURENT THRILLER (series of thriller novels); SPIES & ASSASSINS; SPIRITUAL THERAPY; TERRORIST IMPERATIVE; THE MASKS OF KARLA HOMOLKA.

Download or read book Ted Bundy s Sex Life written by Paul Dawson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TED BUNDY'S SEX LIFE: My Prison Interviews with The Serial-Sex Killer by Dr. Paul Dawson reveals a special emphasis on Ted Bundy's sex life and analysis of Ted Bundy's female victims. Bundy's sex life involved sadistic pornographic images and fantasies, Peeping Tom activity, kidnapping, rape and sadistic-sex murders of young women and girls. This "must read" true crime book focuses on Ted Bundy's sex assaults and murderous encounters with his young women victims. Murder scenes have been recreated based on Dr. Dawson's actual prison interviews with Ted Bundy. Prison interviews are included which present the hair-raising and staggering confessions and livid and X-rated interview comments of the all-American psycho known as the "Campus Killer." He was the all-American college boy murdering mostly all-American college girls. Bundy, a horrifying, mind-boggling puzzle, was one of the most notorious necrophilic-serial-sex killers in the American history of crime. Dr. Dawson brings his forensic-clinical psychologist's perspective to the Ted Bundy prison interviews which he completed in 1988 and are now available for the first time after 30 years. Dr. Dawson conducted a series of interviews with Ted Bundy, poster boy for mass-murder monsters, in 1988 while he was on Death Row in the Florida State Prison at Starke, Florida. Bundy, a slick psychopath without a conscience, was executed in January, 1989. Dr. Dawson provides a rare, exclusive, thrilling, sometimes amusing, and gripping investigation and assessment inside the treacherous, labyrinthine mind of this infamous-serial-sex killer. Bundy's despicable charisma, the horror of his vicious-night-stalker, serial-sex-killer rampage is revealed in depth. Dr. Dawson, in these interviews, exposes Bundy's darkest secrets, elicits rape-murder confessions from Bundy and confronts the murderer of 30 to possibly over 100 young women and girls by probing his mind, examining and challenging Bundy's defenses. Bundy, an enigma, finally answers questions about his devious-sex crimes he's suppressed for many years. Some psychological theories are presented to shine valid, logical light on Bundy's repulsive, depraved, ghastly crimes of assault-abduction, torture-rape, mutilation, murder-necrophilia, dismemberment and cannibalism - at times he ate their flesh. Dr. Dawson earned a Ph.D. in psychology from The New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty in New York City; has been a psychologist in clinics, schools, mental hospitals; was chief psychologist of a state prison system; has been in private practice & consulting in New York; he has written over 60 books including: ANGELINA JOLIE PSYCHOANALYZED; BIPOLAR ZOO; BIPOLAR JUNGLE; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; BPD RECOVERY; CHARACTER INTELLIGENCE (CI); CAMPUS KILLER'S SECRET OBSESSION; CHARLES MANSON'S GIRLS; FOUR SERIAL KILLERS; GRACE KELLY SESSIONS; HOW TO GET SOBER; JACKIE O SESSIONS; JACKIE ONASSIS IN THERAPY; JFK JR MURDERED; JODI ARIAS; JOHNNY DEPP DIAGNOSED; MANSON INTERVIEWS RAW; MARILYN MONROE DIAGNOSED; MASKS OF A LADY KILLER; MASKS of PREDATORS; MASKS of SEX PREDATORS; MASKS of TED BUNDY; MY PRINCESS DIANA THERAPY SESSIONS; MY TED BUNDY INTERVIEWS RAW!; NARCOTERRORIST PSYCHOPATHS; PRINCESS DIANA DIAGNOSED; PSYCHOLOGY OF HIDDEN INFLUENCE; PSYCHOLOGY of MEN WHO ABUSE WOMEN; PSYCHOPATHS; ROCK STARS DIAGNOSED; ROYAL SESSIONS; ROYAL SESSIONS 2; ROYAL SESSIONS 3; SERIAL KILLERS; SERIAL KILLERS 2; SERIAL KILLERS 3; SEX CRIMES; SEX, LOVE & SMART DATING; SKULL SCRAPERS: A CAMILLE LAURENT THRILLER (series of thriller novels); SPIES & ASSASSINS; SPIRITUAL THERAPY; TED BUNDY'S DEATH ROW CONFESSIONS; TERRORIST IMPERATIVE; THE MASKS OF KARLA HOMOLKA.

Download or read book Serial Killers written by Paul Dawson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SERIAL KILLERS 3: MY INTERVIEWS WITH TED BUNDY, CHARLES MANSON & KARLA HOMOLKA by Dr. Paul Dawson reveals three serial killers based on more face-to-face prison interviews Dr. Dawson conducted. Included are new insights and information on Ted Bundy's sex assaults and murderous encounters with his young women victims. Murder scenes have been recreated based on Dr. Dawson's actual prison interviews with Ted Bundy. Prison interviews are included which present the hair-raising and staggering confessions and livid and X-rated interview comments of the all-American psycho known as the "Campus Killer." Dr. Dawson presents the traumatizing, astonishing admissions and scandalous interview comments of the psychopathic serial killer, Charles Manson. This new edition is well researched, cross-validated from various sources, and accurate as possible. Extensive photos. He was the wild-eyed, scraggly-haired Dark Prince of the 1960s. Manson was the demon-hippie, psycho-serial-killer-by-proxy of the Woodstock era who sent his "family" of fanatical, cult-crazed robots out to commit multiple homicides in the mansions of Los Angeles. Dr. Dawson presents a forensic-clinical psychologist's analysis and detailed scrutiny of Karla Homolka. Karla was the significant other in a notorious, degenerate serial-sex-killer couple known as "The Ken and Barbie of Murder and Mayhem" operating from 1990 to 1993 out of Ontario, Canada. Graphic, shocking, and detailed secrets of sex, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder, lies and videotape are revealed in interviews in this book. Dr. Dawson earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from The New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty in New York City; has been a psychologist in clinics, schools, mental hospitals; was chief psychologist of a state prison system; has been in private practice & consulting in New York; he has written over 30 books including: ANGELINA JOLIE PSYCHOANALYZED; BIPOLAR ZOO; BIPOLAR JUNGLE; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; BPD RECOVERY; CHARACTER INTELLIGENCE (CI); CAMPUS KILLER'S SECRET OBSESSION; GRACE KELLY SESSIONS; HOW TO GET SOBER; JACKIE O SESSIONS; JACKIE ONASSIS IN THERAPY; JFK JR MURDERED; JODI ARIAS; MANSON INTERVIEWS RAW; MARILYN MONROE DIAGNOSED; MASKS OF A LADY KILLER; MASKS of PREDATORS; MASKS of SEX PREDATORS; MASKS of TED BUNDY; MY PRINCESS DIANA THERAPY SESSIONS; MY TED BUNDY INTERVIEWS RAW!; NARCOTERRORIST PSYCHOPATHS; PRINCESS DIANA DIAGNOSED; PSYCHOLOGY OF HIDDEN INFLUENCE; PSYCHOLOGY of MEN WHO ABUSE WOMEN; PSYCHOPATHS; ROCK STARS DIAGNOSED; ROYAL SESSIONS; ROYAL SESSIONS 2; ROYAL SESSIONS 3; SERIAL KILLERS; SERIAL KILLERS 2; SERIAL KILLERS 3; SEX CRIMES; SEX, LOVE & SMART DATING; SKULL SCRAPERS: A CAMILLE LAURENT THRILLER (series of thriller novels); SPIES & ASSASSINS; SPIRITUAL THERAPY; TERRORIST IMPERATIVE; THE MASKS OF KARLA HOMOLKA.

Download or read book How to Catch a Killer written by Katherine Ramsland and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two parts to every crime story: how they did it and why they got caught.This book is about the second part, and how it changes the way we catch serial killers. No two stories about the capture of a serial killer are the same. Sometimes, the killers make crucial mistakes; other times, investigators get lucky. And the process of profiling, hunting, and apprehending these predators has changed radically over time, particularly in the field of criminal forensics, which has exploded in the last ten to 15 years. Laser ablation, video spectral analysis, cyber-sleuthing, and even DNA-based genetic genealogy are now crucial tools in solving murders, including the recent capture of the so-called Golden State Killer. This book in the new Profiles in Crime series tells the history of forensics through the “capture stories” of some of the most notorious serial killers, going back almost a century. The killers include: Rodney Alcala, a serial rapist and murderer sometimes called “Dating Game killer” for his appearance on that TV show. No one knows the exact number of his victims. Takahiro Shiraishi, the suicide killer from Zama, Japan, who dismembered nine victims and stored their bodies in his refrigerator. Aileen Wuornos, one of the rare female serial killers. She shot seven men in Florida and was turned in by an accomplice. Jeffrey Dahmer, the “Milwaukee Cannibal,” and Bobby Joe Long, both identified by survivors Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz (“Son of Sam”), who both made mistakes Ludwig Tessnow, who killed several children in Germany, and was caught through new methods in forensic investigation that could distinguish human from animal blood

Download or read book Using Murder written by Philip Jenkins and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade, serial murder has become a source of major concern for law enforcement agencies, while the serial killer has attracted widespread interest as a villain in popular culture. There is no doubt, however, that popular fears and stereotypes have vastly exaggerated the actual scale of multiple homicide activity. In assessing the concern and the interest, Jenkins has produced an innovative synthesis of approaches to social problem construction. It includes an historical and social-scientific estimate of the objective scale of serial murder; a rhetorical analysis of the construction of the phenomenon in public debate; and a cultural studies-oriented analysis of the portrayal of serial murder in contemporary literature, film, and the mass media. Using Murder suggests that a problem of this sort can only be understood in the context of its political and rhetorical dimension; that fears of crime and violence are valuable for particular constituencies and interest groups, which put them to their own uses. In part, these agendas are bureaucratic, in the sense that exaggerated concern about the offense generates support for criminal justice agencies. But other forces are at work in the culture at large, where serial murder has become an invaluable rhetorical weapon in public debates over issues like gender, race, and sexual orientation. Serial murder is worthy of study not so much for its intrinsic significance, but rather for what it suggests about the concerns, needs, and fears of the society that has come to portray it as an “ultimate evil.” Using Murder is a highly original study of a powerful contemporary mythology by a criminologist and historian versed in the constructionist literature on the origins of “moral panics.”

Download or read book Duped written by Ph. D Kassin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people confess to crimes they did not commit? And, surely, those cases must be rare? In fact, it happens all the time—in police stations, workplaces, public schools, and the military. Psychologist Saul Kassin, the world’s leading expert on false confessions, explains how interrogators trick innocent people into confessing, and then how the criminal justice system deludes us into believing these confessions. Duped reveals how innocent men, women, and children, intensely stressed and befuddled by lawful weapons of psychological interrogation, are induced into confession, no matter how horrific the crime. By featuring riveting case studies, highly original research, work by the Innocence Project, and quotes from real-life exonerees, Kassin tells the story of how false confessions happen, and how they corrupt forensics, witnesses, and other evidence, force guilty pleas, and follow defendants for their entire lives— even after they are exonerated by DNA. Starting in the 1980’s, Dr. Kassin pioneered the scientific study of interrogations and confessions. Since then, he has been on the forefront of research and advocacy for those wrongfully convicted by police-induced false confessions. Examining famous cases like the Central Park jogger case and Amanda Knox case, as well as stories of ordinary innocent people trapped into confession, Dr. Kassin exposes just how widespread this problem is. Concluding with actionable solutions and proposals for legislative reform, Duped shows why the stigma of confession persists and how we can reform the criminal justice system to make it stop.

Download or read book The Serial Killer Whisperer written by Pete Earley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Pete Earley—the strange but true story of how a young man’s devastating brain injury gave him the unique ability to connect with the world’s most terrifying criminals. Fifteen-year-old Tony Ciaglia had everything a teenager could want until he suffered a horrific head injury at summer camp. When he emerged from a coma, his right side was paralyzed, he had to relearn how to walk and talk, and he needed countless pills to control his emotions. Abandoned and shunned by his friends, he began writing to serial killers on a whim and discovered that the same traumatic brain injury that made him an outcast to his peers now enabled him to connect emotionally with notorious murderers. Soon many of America’s most dangerous psychopaths were revealing to him heinous details about their crimes—even those they’d never been convicted of. Tony despaired as he found himself inescapably drawn into their violent worlds of murder, rape, and torture—until he found a way to use his gift. Asked by investigators from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to aid in solving a murder, Tony launched his own searches for forgotten victims with clues provided by the killers themselves. The Serial Killer Whisperer takes readers into the minds of murderers like never before, but it also tells the inspiring tale of a struggling American family and a tormented young man who found healing and closure in the most unlikely way—by connecting with monsters.

Download or read book Confessions of a Sociopath written by M.E. Thomas and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of a high-functioning, law-abiding (well, mostly) sociopath and a roadmap—right from the source—for dealing with the sociopath in your life. “[A] gripping and important book . . . revelatory . . . quite the memorable roller coaster ride.”—The New York Times Book Review As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, “We are your neighbors, your coworkers, and quite possibly the people closest to you: lovers, family, friends. Our risk-seeking behavior and general fearlessness are thrilling, our glibness and charm alluring. Our often quick wit and outside-the-box thinking make us appear intelligent—even brilliant. We climb the corporate ladder faster than the rest, and appear to have limitless self-confidence. Who are we? We are highly successful, noncriminal sociopaths and we comprise 4 percent of the American population.” Confessions of a Sociopath—part confessional memoir, part primer for the curious—takes readers on a journey into the mind of a sociopath, revealing what makes them tick while debunking myths about sociopathy and offering a road map for dealing with the sociopaths in your life. M. E. Thomas draws from her own experiences as a diagnosed sociopath; her popular blog, Sociopathworld; and scientific literature to unveil for the very first time these men and women who are “hiding in plain sight.”