Sons of Cain

by Peter Vronsky

  9 https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=znNfXxzuBPKU.k7defDElF7Ic&hl=en_US.

  10 Stephen Knight. Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution. London: George G. Harrap, 1976.

  11 Robert D. Keppel, Joseph G. Weis, Katherine M. Brown, and Kristen Welch. “The Jack the Ripper Murders: A Modus Operandi and Signature Analysis of the 1888–1891 Whitechapel Murders.” Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, no 2, 2005, pp. 1–21.

  12 L. Forbes Winslow. “To the Editor.” The Times, September 12, 1888.

  13 Larry Wilson. Criminal Major Case Management: Persons of Interest Priority Assessment Tool. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012, pp. 201–2.

  14 Home Office Correspondence 1782–1979, HO 144/221/A49301C, ff. 220-223. National Archives, UK.

  15 Dr. George Bagster Phillips’ testimony before a coroner’s inquiry in the death of Annie Chapman and the testimony of Dr. Frederick Gordon Brown in the death of Catherine Eddowes.

  16 HO 144/221/A49301C, ff. 220-223, Home Office Correspondence 1782–1979. National Archives, UK.

  17 Robert Keppel with William Birnes. The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

  18 Javier Rodrigues. “A Real-life Silence of the Lambs.” The Houstonian, September 19, 2006, http://houstonianonline.com/2006/09/19/a-real-life-silence-of-the-lambs.

  19 Robert D. Keppel, Joseph G. Weis, Katherine M. Brown, and Kristen Welch, “The Jack the Ripper Murders.”

  20 Supervisory Special Agent John E. Douglas. Unsub; AKA: Jack the Ripper, NCAVC Homicide (Criminal Investigative Analysis). Department of Justice, FBI: July 6, 1988, pp. 1–7.

  21 http://www.casebook.org/suspects (www.casebook.org is one of the better resources on the Whitechapel Murders on the Internet, along with http://www.jack-the-ripper.org and http://content.met.police.uk/Site/jacktheripper [inactive]).

  22 http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/robhouse-kosminski.html.

  23 http://content.met.police.uk/Article/The-Suspects/1400015320719/1400015320719 [inactive] (retrieved on 6 February 2016).

  24 D. Kim Rossmo, Heike Lutermann, Mark D. Stevenson, and Steven C. Le Comber. “Geographic Profiling in Nazi Berlin: Fact and Fiction (Unclassified). Geospatial Intelligence Review, vol. 12, no. 2, 2014, pp. 44–57.

  25 Samantha Lundrigan and David Canter. “Spatial Patterns of Serial Murder: An Analysis of Disposal Site Location Choice. Behavioral Sciences and the Law Journal, no. 19, 2001, p. 601.

  26 Kim Rossmo. Geographic Profiling, presentation at the NCIS Conference 1998, https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog885/sites/www . . . /krossmo.pdf.

  27 George Tita and Elizabeth Griffiths. “Traveling to Violence: The Case of a Mobility-Based Spatial Typology of Homicide. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, vol. 42, no. 3, August 2005, pp. 277–78.

  28 Wesley English. Geoprofile: Jack the Ripper. http://www.wesleyenglish.com/geoprofile/infamous-cases/jack-the-ripper.

  29 S. C. Le Comber, B. Nicholls, D. K. Rossmo, and P. A. Racey. “Geographic Profiling and Animal Foraging.” Journal of Theoretical Biology, no. 240, 2006, pp. 233–40. And R. A Martin, D. K. Rossmo, and N. Hammerschlag. “Hunting Patterns and Geographic Profiling of White Shark Predation.” Journal of Zoology, no. 279, 2009, pp. 111–18. And S. C. Le Comber, D. K. Rossmo, A. N. Hassan, D. O. Fuller, and J. C. Beier. “Geographic Profiling as a Novel Spatial Tool for Targeting Infectious Disease Control.” International Journal of Health Geographics, no. 10, 2011, pp. 35–42. And M. D. Stevenson, D. K. Rossmo, R. J. Knell, and S. C. Le Comber. “Geographic Profiling as a Novel Spatial Tool for Targeting the Control of Invasive Species.” Ecography, no. 35, 2012, pp. 704–15. And C. Bennell and S. Corey. “Geographic Profiling of Terrorist Attacks.” In R. N. Kocsis, ed. Criminal Profiling: International Theory, Research, and Practice. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2007, pp. 189–203. For land border illegal migration profiling, see: http://www.txstate.edu/gii/projects/land-border-illegal-migration-profiling.html.

  30 D. Kim Rossmo et al. (unclassified 2014).

  31 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10880601/We-know-where-Jack-the-Ripper-lived-experts.html; http://www.txstate.edu/gii/projects/jack-the-ripper.html.

  32 Robert House in “Aaron Kosminski Reconsidered,” http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/robhouse-kosminski.html.

  33 Robert D. Keppel, Joseph G. Weis, Katherine M. Brown, and Kristen Welch, “The Jack the Ripper Murders,” pp. 17–18.

  34 John Travis. “Sea-bathing from 1730 to 1900.” In Stephen Fisher, ed. Recreation and the Sea. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1997.

  35 Colin Wilson. A Criminal History of Mankind. New York: Carroll & Graff, 1990.

  36 Michel Foucault. Madness and Civilization, trans. R. Howard. New York: Pantheon, 1965, p. 210.

  11. THE FRENCH RIPPER: THE FORENSICS OF SERIAL MURDER IN THE BELLE EPOCH, 1897

  1 Alexandre Lacassagne. Vacher L’Eventreur et les Crimes Sadiques. Lyon: A. Storck, 1899, p. 47.

  2 Douglas Starr. The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010, Kindle ed. (Kindle location 665).

  3 Starr, The Killer of Little Shepherds (Kindle location 1013).

  4 For histories of forensics, see: Starr, The Killer of Little Shepherds. And Colin Wilson. Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection. London: Grafton Books, 1989. And Colin Beavan. Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science. New York: Hyperion, 2001. And Katherine D. Watson. Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History. London and New York: Routledge, 2011. And R. J. Parker. Forensic Analysis and DNA in Criminal Investigations. St. John’s, Newfoundland: R. J. Parker Publishing, 2015.

  5 Lacassagne quoted in: Marc Renneville. “Les transformations du droit pénal et les progrès de la médecine légale, de 1810 à 1912.” Archives d’anthropologie criminelle, 1913, p. 364; quoted by Robert Kennedy in: Statement by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Government Operations Committee. Washington, DC: 25 September 1963.

  6 Émile Fourquet. Les vagabonds: Les vagabonds criminels. Le Problème du vagabondage. Paris: Marchal et Billard, 1908.

  7 James Ellroy. LAPD ’53. New York: Abrams, 2015, p. 113.

  8 See the brilliant book: Michael Newton. Rope: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Harvey Glatman. New York: Pocket Books, 1998.

  9 Starr, The Killer of Little Shepherds (Kindle locations 2929–30).

  10 http://gw.geneanet.org/antistar?lang=Fr.&pz=marcel+andre+henri+felix&nz=petiot&ocz=0&p=pierre&n=vacher&oc=1 (retrieved February 14, 2016).

  11 S. Waller, ed. Serial Killers—Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2010, Kindle ed., p. 69.

  12 Alexandre Lacassagne. Vade-mecum du médecin-expert. Lyon: A. Storck, 1892.

  13 Hans Gross. Criminal Investigation: A Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers, and Lawyers. English edition translated and adapted to Indian and Colonial practice: Madras: 1906, p. 116.

  14 Dr. Hans Gross. Handbuch für Untersuchungsrichter als System der Kriminalistik (Handbook for Examining Magistrates as a System of Criminology), 2 vols., 1893. And US Department of Justice. “Psychopathy.” FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, vol. 81, no. 7, July 2012.

  15 Mary Ellen O’Toole, Matt Logan, and Sharon Smith. “Looking Behind the Mask: Implications for Interviewing Psychopaths.” FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, vol. 81, no. 7, July 2012, pp. 14–19.

  16 Quoted in: Starr, The Killer of Little Shepherds (Kindle locations 3067–70).

  12. RED TIDE RISING: SERIAL KILLERS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, 1900–1950

  1 https://www.nist.gov/featured-stories/who-was-detective-x.

  2 The Times and Democrat, 28 June 1906; St. John Daily Sun, Daily Mail, 1 May 1906; The Ho
me Daily Sentinel, 16 June 1906; The Queanbeyan Age, September 6, 1907.

  3 Everard Meade. “From Sex Strangler to Model Citizen: Mexico’s Most Famous Murderer and the Defeat of the Death Penalty.” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, vol. 26, issue 2, Summer 2010, pp. 323–77.

  4 Mike G. Aamodt, Serial Killer Statistics.

  5 Mike G. Aamodt, Serial Killer Statistics.

  6 Philip Jenkins. Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994. And “Serial Murder in the United States 1900–1940: A Historical Perspective.” Journal of Criminal Justice, vol. 17, 1989, pp. 377–92.

  7 Eric Godtland and Dian Hanson. True Crime Detective Magazines 1924–1969. Köln: Taschen, 2013, p. 65.

  8 J. Paul de River. The Sexual Criminal. Burbank, CA: Bloat, 2000, p. 65. (Originally published by Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL, 1949.)

  9 Mike G. Aamodt, Serial Killer Statistics.

  13. AMERICAN GOTHIC: THE “GOLDEN AGE” OF SERIAL KILLERS, 1950–2000

  1 Christopher Beam, quoting Harold Schechter. In “Blood Loss: The Decline of the Serial Killer.” Slate, January 5, 2011, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2011/01/blood_loss.html.

  2 Vronsky, Female Serial Killers, p. 354

  3 https://theodorerobertcowellnelsonbundy.wordpress.com/tag/carole-ann-boone/. And http://www.absolutecrime.com/married-to-murder-the-bizarre-and-true-accounts-of-people-who-married-murderers.html#.WZdvlRuWw8w.

  4 http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/jul/14/it-was-a-match-made-in-prison-ewu-professors.

  5 Amy Mackie. “Part 3: I Am the Real Veronica Compton.” Pelican Bomb, August 23, 2016, http://pelicanbomb.com/art-review/2016/part-3-i-am-the-real-veronica-compton.

  6 Don E. Jacobs. Criminal Psychology: Sexual Predators in the Age of Neuroscience. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2006, p. 52.

  7 Mike G. Aamodt, Serial Killer Statistics.

  8 D. Kim Rossmo. Geographic Profiling. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2000, p. 14.

  9 Mike G. Aamodt, Serial Killer Statistics.

  10 Hickey, Serial Murderers and Their Victims, seventh ed., p. 446. And http://skdb.fgcu.edu/info.asp.

  11 Mike G. Aamodt, Serial Killer Statistics.

  12 Kenna Quinet. “The Missing Missing: Toward a Quantification of Serial Murder Victimization in the United States.” Homicide Studies, vol. 11, no. 4, November 2007, pp. 319–39.

  13 Alec Wilkinson. “The Serial-Killer Detector.” The New Yorker, November 27, 2017.

  14 Ressler quoted in Philip Jenkins. Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide, p. 67.

  15 New York Times, February 2, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/nyregion/etan-patz-pedro-hernandez-guilty.html.

  16 Philip Jenkins. Using Murder, pp. 58–59.

  17 John Gill. “Missing Children: How Politics Helped Start the Scandal.” FatherMag.com, 2000. http://www.fathermag.com/006/missing-children/abduction_2.shtml.

  18 Michael Fumento, Hudson Institute. American Outlook, Spring 2002, http://www.fumento.com/exploit.html.

  19 Gill, “Missing Children,” http://www.fathermag.com/006/missing-children/abduction_3.shtml.

  20 Gill, Ibid.

  21 Hickey, Serial Murderers and Their Victims, seventh ed., pp. 336–39.

  22 Joel Best. “Missing Children, Misleading Statistics.” Public Interest, 92, 1988, p. 92.

  23 Ronald M. Holmes and Stephen T. Holmes. Profiling Violent Crimes: An Investigative Tool. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2009. Kindle ed., pp. 116–17.

  24 Kenneth Chew, Richard McCleary, Maricres Lew, and Johnson Wang. “The Epidemiology of Child Homicide in California, 1981 Through 1990.” Homicide Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, May 1999, pp. 151–69.

  25 US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation. VICAP Crime Analysis Report (FD-676 (Rev. 3-11-86) OMB No. 1110-0011. Quantico, VA, 1986.

  26 Peter Vronsky. “Zebra! The Hunting Humans ‘Ninja’ Truck Driver Serial Killer.” In Serial Killers True Crime Anthology 2015, Volume 2. St. John’s, Newfoundland: R. J. Parker Publishing, 2014.

  27 https://www.propublica.org/article/the-fbi-built-a-database-that-can-catch-rapists-almost-nobody-uses-it.

  28 Special Agent Ann Todd, FBI Office of Public Affairs, Quantico, VA, to Peter Vronsky, e-mail 8 December 2014: “. . . Given the demanding nature of their work, the FBI’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) is unable to provide assistance with your request . . . the FBI’s website provides information regarding the role of the NCAVC in serial murder investigations and may be a helpful resource . . .”

  29 https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2008/august/vicap_080408 (retrieved March 25, 2017).

  30 http://www.canada.com/news/Researchersquestioneffectivenesshightechpolicedatabaseviolence/6164630/story.html.

  31 http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Canada/United-States/Crime.

  32 R. Emerson Dobash and Russell P. Dobash, When Men Murder Women, p. 109.

  14. DIABOLUS IN CULTURA: SERIAL-KILLING RAPE CULTURE “SWEATS,” THE “GREATEST GENERATION,” AND THEIR SONS OF CAIN

  1 Simon Harrison, Dark Trophies (Kindle locations 4297–98).

  2 Iris Chang. The Rape of Nanking. New York: Basic Books, 1997.

  3 Harry S. Stout. Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.

  4 William McCarter. My Life in the Irish Brigade: The Civil War Memoirs of Private William McCarter, 116th Pennsylvania Infantry. Boston: Da Capo Press, Incorporated, 1996, p. vii. And Phillip Thomas Tucker and Pia Seija Seagrave, eds. The History of the Irish Brigade: A Collection of Historical Essays. Fredericksburg, VA: Sergeant Kirkland’s Museum and Historical Society, 1995, p. 20.

  5 Tom Brokow. The Greatest Generation. New York: Random House, 1998, p. xxxviii.

  6 P. E. Dietz, B. Harry, and R. R. Hazelwood. “Detective Magazines: Pornography for the Sexual Sadist?” Journal of Forensic Sciences, vol. 31, issue 1, January 1986, pp. 197–211.

  7 Max Allan Collins, George Hagenauer, and Steven Haller. Men’s Adventure Magazines in Postwar America. Köln: Taschen, 2004, pp. 285–364.

  8 Collins, Hagenauer, and Haller, Men’s Adventure Magazines in Postwar America, p. 470.

  9 See for example: Collins, Hagenauer, and Haller, Men’s Adventure Magazines in Postwar America. And Adam Parfrey. It’s A Man’s World: Men’s Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2003. And Tom Brinkman. Bad Mags 2. London: Headpress, 2009. And David Saunders. Norman Saunders. St. Louis, MO: The Illustrated Press, 2008. And Eric Godtland and Dian Hanson, True Crime Detective Magazines 1924–1969. And Google Images: “pulp adventure magazines,” www.google.ca/search?q=pulp+adventure+magazines&biw=1164&bih=569&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi38-PCg8vLAhVFnoMKHYlgC88Q_AUIBigB or Google Images: “true detective magazines,” https://www.google.ca/search?q=true+detective+magazines&biw=1164&bih=569&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiXh9vXg8vLAhXrkYMKHV9JBx8Q_AUIBigB.

  10 Collins, Hagenauer, and Haller, Men’s Adventure Magazines in Postwar America, p. 470.

  11 Collins, Hagenauer and Haller, Men’s Adventure Magazines in Postwar America, p. 9; Godtland and Hanson, True Crime Detective Magazines 1924–1969, p. 234.

  12 Dave Grossman. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. New York: Open Road Media. Kindle ed., pp. 135–36.

  13 Marlise Simons. “UN Court, for First Time, Defines Rape as War Crime.” And United Nations, Security Council Resolution 1820, Adopted by the Security Council at its 5916th meeting, on 19 June 2008.

  14 J. Robert Lilly. Taken by Force: Rape and American GIs in Europe During World War II.

  15 Michael Snape. God and Uncle Sam: Religion and America’s Armed Forces in World War II. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2015, p. 513. And Harper’s Index World War II, htt
p://harpers.org/sponsor/thewar/harpers-index-wwii-edition/index.html [retrieved March 10, 2016].

  16 US Department of Justice. Uniform Crime Reports [United States], 1930–1959. Republished by Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/NACJD/studies/3666.

  17 http://www.statista.com/statistics/191137/reported-forcible-rape-cases-in-the-usa-since-1990.

  18 http://www.visualnews.com/2015/07/28/the-rape-statistics-you-need-to-know.

  19 David Wilson. “The Secret War.” The Guardian, March 27, 2007, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/mar/27/thesecretwar [retrieved March 17, 2016].

  20 Home Office. Freedom of Information Records Release, April 2006: HO 45/25603. WAR: Offenses Committed by US Forces Personnel in the UK; Liaison Between the Police and the US Military. National Archives, UK.

  21 Ben Fenton “Wartime GIs Went on Rampage of Rape and Murder.” The Telegraph, April 25 2006, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1516599/Wartime-GIs-went-on-rampage-of-rape-and-murder.html [retrieved March 17, 2016].

  22 Mary Louise Roberts, What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II.

  23 Harvey Levenstein. We’ll Always Have Paris: American Tourists in France Since 1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010, p. 92. And Life Magazine, December 10, 1945, p. 20.

  24 Jennifer Schuessler. “The Dark Side of Liberation.” New York Times, May 20, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/books/rape-by-american-soldiers-in-world-war-ii-france.html?_r=0.

  25 Jennifer Schuessler, Ibid.

  26 Alice Kaplan. “A Hidden Memorial to the Worst Aspects of Our Jim Crow Army.” Chicago Tribune, September 25, 2005. And James McAuley, “A Tsunami of Lust: American’s Liberation of France Was Not Innocent.” Prospect, May 31, 2013, http://www .prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/what-soldiers-do-review-france-second-world-war [retrieved 17 March 2016].

  27 Kaplan, “A Hidden Memorial to the Worst Aspects of Our Jim Crow Army.”

  28 Guy Walters. “Did Allied Troops Rape 285,000 German Women?” Daily Mail, March 25, 2015, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3011930/Did-Allied-troops-rape -285-000-German-women-s-shocking-claim-new-book-German-feminist-exposing-war-crime-slandering-heroes.html; and http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/book-claims-us-soldiers-raped-190-000-german-women-post-wwii-a-1021298.html; and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2975016/New-book-alleges-Allied-soldiers-raped-one-million-Germans-end-Second-World-War.html [retrieved March 17, 2016].