Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot

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by Michael Arntfield


  Speerschneider, 183

  suspectology and, 128

  Bomber’s Row, ADX Florence supermax prison, 81

  Bond, Thomas, 20

  Bossier Doe, 255

  Boston Strangler, 21, 230

  Brady, Ian, 243

  Bratton, William J., 274–76

  Breese Terrace Apartments, 214

  Breier, Harold, 113–14

  Brooklyn Vampire, 120

  Brown, Pat, 272

  Brussel, James, 240

  Brutalism, 23

  BTK Strangler, 263

  buffer distance, 195–96

  Bulling, Thomas, 20

  Bundy, Ted, 155, 235, 238

  Buono, Angelo, 238

  Burt, Leo, 79–84

  Bush, George W., 245

  Byrd, Charles, 179–80

  bystander effect, 183–84

  C

  Caledonia Jane Doe, 254–55

  calling cards, 42–44

  Camp Indianola, 192–95

  Camp Randall Stadium, 212–14

  capillary level of power, 58

  Capital City Killer, 20

  Bennett and, 104–6

  cold-case playing cards, 293–96

  Edwards as, 169–73

  geographic profiling on, 196–98

  investigation on, 169

  Julie murders and, 191

  Lange as, 210

  Lucas as, 256–59

  making of the myth of, 21–22, 77–78, 86–87, 134

  number of victims of, 194

  police censorship about, 131–32

  reinvention of for all murders, 229–31

  Rothschild and, 104–6

  Speerschneider and, 184–85

  Sterling Hall bombing and, 85–87

  Taylor as, 232–33, 234–35

  as urban legend, 267–69

  UW campus as focus of, 165–69

  Western University class on, 278–79

  Zamastil as, 148–49

  Capital City killings, 259–60, 276

  Capital Times, 99, 100, 108, 158, 169, 214, 220

  Cardinal Hotel, 96–97, 98–99, 106–9

  Carroll, Lewis, 20

  The Case for Easter (Strobel), 264–66, 267, 288

  The Cather in the Rye (Salinger), 224

  Central Park Five, 190

  Chamberlain, Clyde, 132, 183, 193

  Chandler, Harry, 93

  Chandler, Raymond, 133

  Chapman, Mark David, 224

  Chase, Richard, 238

  Chicago Seven, 10

  Chinese curse, 237–38

  Chi Omega massacre, 235

  Christmas card, Lass and, 120–21, 123, 264

  Cinderella, 228

  cipher messages, 265–67

  Clair, Jillian, 279–88, 292, 300

  Cleckley, Hervey, 56

  Cleveland Torso Murderer, 278

  Co-Ed Killer, 202

  Cohen, Marcus, 46

  cold-case playing cards, 293–96

  Cole, Carol, 255

  Coleridge, Samuel, 62

  Collins, John Norman, 152–53, 155

  Columbian National Exposition of 1893, 15–17

  Columbia University, 68–70

  Columbine High School massacre, 265–66

  Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), 199

  Comeaux, Randy, 196

  compliant false confessions, 140

  Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), 125

  confessions, false, 140–41, 230, 253–58

  confirmation bias, 141

  Connell, Richard, 265

  Consolidated Edison, 240–41

  continuance commitment, 287–88

  coprographia, 120

  copycats, 230–31

  counterculture of the 60s, 9–11

  courtship disorder, 47

  crime rates, US, 163, 189

  The Criminal and His Victim (Hentig), 186

  Criminal Minds, 238

  criminal psychopaths, 17

  Cummings, Gordon, 77

  D

  Dahmer, Jeffrey, 4

  The Daily Cardinal, 82

  dark figure of crime, 71

  Dating Game Killer, 170

  Dean Clinic, 164

  denials, weak, 288

  DeSalvo, Albert, 230

  Detroit Red Wings, 155

  The Devil in the White City (Larson), 16

  The Devil Wears Prada (Weisberger), 73

  Dickens, Charles, 44

  diffusion of responsibility, 183

  Dillinger, John, 3

  Dillinger Gang, 3

  Disney, Walt, 227

  disorganized offenders, 180–81

  disposal pathways, 103, 168

  DNA, 198, 278, 292

  Jorgensen and, 278, 290, 298

  Raasch case, 251

  Sweetheart Murders and, 173

  domestic-anger stalking, 30

  domestic violence, 189

  Doyle, Arthur Conan, 20, 105

  Drew, Kelly, 171–72

  drowning, 268–72

  Duarte, Anthony, 270–71

  dump sites. See body dump sites

  Dyer, Albert, 239, 263

  E

  Edwards, Edward Wayne, 169–73, 231, 258

  Eggenberger, Joseph Otto Jr., 138–41

  Ellis, Walter, 4

  endangered missing, 158–59

  evidence

  anonymous letters, 252–53

  bite-mark, 234–35

  holdback, 230–31

  Examiner, 93–94

  expressive violence, 138–39

  F

  false linkages, 20

  Fassnacht, Robert, 83

  FBI

  bombing investigations, 84

  on disposal pathways, 103–4

  Lass murder and, 123

  on MO changes, 201

  New Year’s Gang investigation, 91

  Fear and Loathing in Law Vegas (Thompson), 73

  Felson, Lawrence, 46

  femicides of Juárez, Mexico, 21

  Fiedler Lane attack, 218–19, 233

  Fine, David, 79–80

  First Church of Christ, Scientist, 49

  Fish, Albert, 120, 263

  Ford, John, 268

  Foucault, Michel, 57

  Free Lance-Star, 151–52

  Freeway Killer, 20

  Frey. Reinhold “Tiny,” 32, 33, 38

  funerals of victims, 44, 159

  G

  Gacy, John Wayne, 238, 266

  Gannon, Kevin, 270–71

  Gardner Marsh, 165–66

  garrotes, 40–41

  Gates, Daryl, 275

  Gein, Ed, 4, 105–6

  Genovese, Kitty, 183–84

  geographic profiling, 195–6

  Getty, Luther, 99, 105, 106–7

  Gilgo Beach, New York, 85

  Goetz, Bernie, 213

  Golemb, Roger, 33, 34, 38

  Green River Killer, 155, 182–83

  Grimes sisters, 253

  Gypsy Trip, 192

  H

  Hack, Tim, 171–73

  Halbach, Teresa, 4

  Hall, Betty, 124–25

  Hall, Donne, 124–25

  Hall, Julie Ann, 123–24

  geographic knowledge of killer, 192

  identification of body, 127–28

  LeMahieu compared with, 168

  murders linked to, 194–95, 198–99, 202–3, 258, 295–96

  Speerschneider compared with, 179–80, 183–84

  surveillance footage on, 154

  X-Factor in investigation on, 191

  Halloween Gambit, 209

  Hand of Death, 244–45

  Hanson, Ralph, 273

  Harrington, Fred, 130

  Harris, Eric, 265

  Hearst, Patty, 83

  Hellman, Cynthia, 151

  Hentig, Hans von, 186–87, 200

  hero criminals, 181

  Hesselberg, George, 184

  Hillside Stranglers, 23
8

  Hinckley, John Jr., 224

  Hindley, Myra, 243

  Hitchcock, Alfred, 4

  hitchhikers, vanishing, 145–48, 150, 185, 247

  Hodel, George Hill, 133

  holdback evidence policy, 230–31

  Holmes, H. H., 15–17, 18, 246

  Homicide Research Center, 272

  Homolka, Karla, 243

  honor among thieves, 293–4

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 147

  hot zone, 195–3

  Human Genome Project, 198

  The Hunt, 244

  hypnosis, 220

  I

  Intra County Investigative Squad, 101–2, 106, 258

  Bennett investigation, 108–9, 129–30

  of Mraz murder, 219–20

  J

  Jack the Ripper, 18–21, 132

  Jaeger, Suzie, 241

  Jameson, Ezra, 176–78, 206, 206, 224, 260, 262–63, 290, 300

  Johnson, George, 205

  Johnson, Mary, 148

  Johnston, George, 60, 61–65, 67, 116

  Love Pirate found by, 70–71

  Jorgensen, Heidi, 28, 71, 73, 93. See also The Love Pirate (Jorgensen)

  death of, 260

  knowledge of her son, 89–90, 143, 205

  on son’s death, 94

  Jorgensen, Niels Bjorn, 28–30

  animal cruelty by, 178–79

  appearance of, 28

  Argentinean guest and, 262–63, 266

  in Arizona, 155

  backstory/lies of, 28, 59–60, 62–63, 64, 175–76, 283, 284, 287, 297

  “biography” of, 29, 73–74

  brother’s death and, 92–95, 103

  death of, 281

  DNA evidence, 278, 290, 298

  efforts to locate, 114

  family of, 89–94

  gun of, 63, 66, 73

  LAPD and, 274–76

  Lass murder and, 117–24

  in Las Vegas, 115–16

  lie detector test and, 69–70

  move to New York City, 66, 68–70

  patience of, 46, 47

  perceptions of, 55

  as person of interest, 65–66

  phone call to Tomaszio, 288–89

  Polaroids of bodies, 59–60, 62, 116

  preferred victim type of, 96, 103–4, 202

  protégé of, 176–78

  recorded phone call with, 280–88

  reframing by, 226–27

  religious mania of, 263–66

  roommate of, 60, 60–65

  on Rothschild, 283–87

  Rothschild and, 31–34, 43–44

  in Sierra Singles, 175–78, 206

  smoke pits trolled by, 55–60

  in South Africa, 59–60

  SSN and known alias of, 155

  stalking by, 33–35

  targeted by Tomaszewski, 49–54

  tracked by Tomaszewski, 109–15, 151–52

  as trapper offender, 266–67

  at UW hospital, 57–60

  Valentine Sally and, 206–8

  victimology on, 44–46

  voyeurism of, 47–48

  Western University class and, 286–88

  Williamson murder and, 139–47

  Ypsilanti Ripper and, 153–60

  Jorgensen, Søren, 96–100, 108, 178

  Josephson, Dick, 66–69, 71, 297, 298

  Juárez, Mexico, femicides, 21

  K

  Kelly, Raymond, 117

  Kemper, Edmund, 202, 209

  Kennedy, Robert, 90, 237–38

  Keppel, Robert D., 155

  Killer Colonel, 76–81

  Klebold, Dylan, 273

  known vice areas, 173

  Konitzer, Gene, 214

  Kürten, Peter, 3

  L

  Lake, Leonard, 243

  Lake Forest, 165–69

  Lange, Roger, 210–11, 256

  Larson, Erik, 15

  Lass, Donna Ann, 118–23, 205–6

  Las Vegas, 115–16

  LeMahieu, Susan, 160–63, 167–69, 199

  geographic knowledge of killer, 192

  murders linked to, 194–95, 197–98, 202–3, 258, 295–6

  Levine, Lowell, 235

  Linda. See Tomaszewski, Linda

  linkage blindness, 201

  Lioy, Doreen, 234

  Little, Phil, 193

  Los Angeles, Black Dahlia murder, 132–34

  Los Angeles Police Department, 274–75, 278, 292

  Los Angeles Times, 93

  Lost City Forest, 165–69

  The Love Pirate (Jorgensen), 28

  on Baron, 177–79

  clues in, 75–77, 169

  found by Johnston, 73

  on the Jorgensen family, 94–95

  on the killer’s protégé, 182–85

  Lass murder and, 126, 205–6

  preferred victim type in, 96, 108, 126, 142–43

  published, 223–27

  story of, 74–77

  Williamson and, 147

  lovers’ lanes, 166–67

  Lucas, Henry Lee, 243–45

  confessions by, 253–58

  Lucas, Viola, 249

  Lucas Task Force, 244, 267

  Lulling, Charlie, 44, 69, 71–75

  lust murders, 142

  M

  Mackman, Sandy, 66, 68, 71, 131, 287

  Mad Bomber of New York City, 239–41

  Mad Butcher, 278

  Madison, James, 1

  Madison, Wisconsin

  Cardinal Hotel, 96–97, 98–99, 107–9

  crime rates, 163

  description of, 1–3

  Freakfest, 1

  Hall murder, 123–24

  LeMahieu murder, 160–63

  as Mad City/Madtown, 1–2

  Main King Tap, 126–27, 128, 160, 162

  Mraz murder, 211–17

  Picnic Point, 5–6

  police overhaul in, 292–93

  as soft target, 15, 98

  Speerschneider murder, 150, 156–60

  Stewart murder, 164–65

  magnets for crime, 85–86

  Main King Tap, 126–28, 128–29, 160, 162

  Making a Murderer, 4

  Manson, Charles, 90, 148

  Marquette Branch Prison, 155–56

  McCormick, Paula, 210–11

  McVeigh, Timothy, 83–84

  Meierhofer, David, 242

  Mell, Ted, 108

  Metesky, George, 240–41

  microgeography, 85–86

  Milwaukee Brewers, 89

  Milwaukee Cannibal, 4

  missing missing persons, 158–59, 163, 208

  missing persons, accidental deaths and, 251–52

  Monster of Florence, 167

  Moore, Gary, 219–21

  MOs (modus operandi)

  Bennett vs. Rothschild, 109

  Capital City Killer, 194

  changes in, 200–1

  couple abduction-murders, 173

  Hall, 180

  Jorgensen’s, 63–64

  Lucas’s, 256

  signatures v., 40

  Speerschneider, 179

  Williamson and, 142

  Ypsilanti Ripper, 153–54

  Moseley, Winston, 183

  The Most Dangerous Game (Connell), 265

  Mraz, Donna, 211–22, 229, 268

  as cold case, 296

  on cold-case playing cards, 293

  exhumed to check teeth of, 232, 234–36

  Mudgett, Herman, 15–17

  Mueller, Frederick, 192

  Murder Accountability Project, 188

  Murders on the Moor, 243

  murder tourism, 132

  mutilations, 59–60

  muti-murder, 59–60

  The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (Poe), 230–31

  N

  narcissism, 28, 59, 65, 95, 115, 122, 152, 170, 176, 206, 225, 244, 264, 280

  narrative theory of offending, 181

  National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime,
103, 238

  necrophilia, 40, 60–61, 103, 211

  Nelson, Baby Face, 3

  Netflix, 4

  New Year’s Gang, 80–81

  New York Times, 238

  Ng, Charles, 243

  Nichols, Terry, 81

  Night Stalker, 61, 234

  Nolan, Kelly, 296

  North Side Strangler, 4, 20

  Norwegian heavy water sabotage, 297

  O

  Oakland Tribune, 138

  O’Brien, Tim, 73

  Oklahoma City bombing, 80

  Operation Gunnerside, 297

  Orange Socks, 245, 254

  organized offenders, 180–81

  Oswald, Lee Harvey, 90

  P

  paraphilias, 43

  coprographia, 120

  necrophilia, 40, 60–61, 103–4, 263

  scopophilias, 166–67

  somnophilia, 25, 40, 47

  zoosadism, 178–79

  Parker, William H., 275–76

  Park Village Apartments, 125–26

  penny dreadfuls, 19

  personal cause homicides, 96, 140

  Pilker, Mary, Christmas card to, 120–21, 264

  place-specific crime, 85

  Plainfield Ghoul, 4, 105–6

  playing cards, cold-case, 293–96

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 73, 230–31, 265

  Point Break, 84

  The Police Chief, 197

  police investigations, 7

  Bennett murder, 99–100

  blaming the victim in, 184–87

  Capital City Killer, 21, 229–35

  censorship in, 132, 149–50, 200

  clearance rate of, 188

  cold cases, 292

  diffusion of responsibility and, 183–84

  evidence mishandling in, 198–99

  failure to make linkages in, 199–203

  guesswork in, 17–18

  Hall murder, 129–30

  incompetence in, 20

  information sharing in, 66, 109–10, 130–31, 275–76

  Jorgensen in, 65–66

  Lass murder, 123

  LeMahieu murder, 168–69

  luck in, 188

  Milwaukee, 113–14

  Mraz, 216–17, 219–21

  oversight and accountability of, 293

  Rothschild murder, 34–35, 37–41, 53, 58

  sophistication of, 43, 114–15

  Speerschneider murder, 158, 159–60

  Stewart murder, 198–99

  Tomaszio warned off of, 274

  university policies in impeding, 67–68

  unsolved, 246

  at victims’ funerals, 44

  X-Factor in, 187–91

  polymorphistic victim selection, 203

  Potts, Beverly, 253

  preferred victim type, 96, 103–9, 203

  Lass murder and, 122

  primary crime scenes, 137

  process-focused killers, 202

  professional criminals, 182

  profiling, 238–42

  geographic, 195–98

  Psycho, 4

  psychogeography, 85

  psychological autopsy, 45

  Bennett, 99–100

  Rothschild, 45–46

  Speerschneider, 157–58

  Psychopath Checklist Revised (PCL-R), 190

  psychopaths, 17

  continuance commitment in, 287–88

  indicators of, 43–44

  Jorgensen as, 28, 56

 

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