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21. Simon Baatz, For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder that Shocked Chicago (New York: Harper Collins, 2008). Leopold, sensitive and sexually in the thrall of the more psychopathic Loeb, conspired to kill a boy just for the excitement of doing it. Loeb was killed in prison by another inmate. Leopold, remorseful, was freed after thirty-four years and then led a socially useful life.
22. This point is made convincingly by Dr. Stanton Samenow in Inside the Criminal Mind (New York: Times Books, 1984), pp. 175-90.
23. The details can be found in the biography of Athens by Richard Rhodes: Why They Kill (New York: Random House, 1999).
24. Anthony Flacco with Jerry Clark, Slave in the Necropolis (Martin Literary Management, 2008, preprint of book to be published, 2009), pp. 16-62.
25. John Dean, House ofEvil (New York: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2008).
26. Ibid., p. 218.
27. Her original title read "Oni ne bi ni mrava zgazili": They wouldn't step on an ant, but the idea is the same.
28. Gary King, Stolen in the Night (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007). Also http://news.aol.com/article/confessed-child-killer-sentenced-to/141596 ?icid=1 002 1 48 3 9x1.
29. http://fifthnail.blogspot.com/.
30. http://en.allexperts.com/e/j/jo/joseph_e_duncan_iii.htm?zlr=4.
31. His story is recorded in the New York Times, June 14, 1996.
32. Samenow, Inside the Criminal Mind, p. 177.
3 3. The murder took place in 2006 in the state of Maine, after he was inappropriately released from a mental hospital at a time when he was harboring murderous thoughts about his mother. Wall Street Journal, August 16, 2008, pp. A-1, A-8; also http://www.nylj.com/nylawyer/probono/news/07/080307a.html.
34. Joel Norris, Arthur Shawcross: The Genesee River Killer (New York: Windsor Publications, 1992). Also, Jack Olsen, Misbegotten Son (New York: Dell/Island Books, 1993).
35. http://news.aol.com/article/confessed-child-killer-sentenced -to/145196 ?icid=100214839x1.
36. http://mediahangout.blogspot.com/2008/11/Quentin-patrick -halloween-arrest. httnl-220k.
37. http://www.allserialkillers.com/clifford_olson.htm, p. 6. Cf. also W. Leslie Holmes and Bruce Northrup, Where Shadows Linger: The Untold Story of RCMP's Olson Murder Investigation (Surrey, BC: Heritage House Publishing Company, 2000).
38. According to Section 745.6 of the Criminal Code, as mentioned by the stepfather of thirteen-year-old murder victim Colleen Daignault, who was raped, tortured, and killed by Olsen in 1981. The stepfather has urged the repeal of that statute. http://www.ow1125.com/colleen.html.
3 9. Billy Wayne Sinclair and Jodie Sinclair, A Life in the Balance: A journey from Murder to Redemption Inside Americas Worst Prison System (New York: Arcade Publishing, 2000).
40. His story is told in Tom Jackman and Troy Cole, Rites of Burial: The Shocking True Crime Account of Robert Berdella, the Butcher of Kansas City, Missouri (New York: Windsor Publishing/Pinnacle Books, 1992).
41. Reprinted here with Dennis Nilsen's permission: his letter of July 31, 2008.
42. Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, ed. and trans. Stanley Appelbaum (Mineola, NY. Dover Press, 2004 [1883-85]), p. 10. The original reads "Der Mensch ist ein Seil, geknupft zwischen Tier and Ubermensch-ein Seil fiber einem Abgrunde." Uberrnensch is often translated "overman" to avoid the word superman, which has overtones either of the comic-book character or the goose-stepping Nazis. Nietzsche did not have in mind brutish men like the Nazis; rather, an independent, morally superior, artistic man-beyond or more than the ordinary person. For easier comprehension, I prefer the phrase "superior man" here: one who would be at the farthest remove from the commission of evil, in the sense I have been using it in this book.
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