Landregan, Bridget, 194, 195, 197–98, 200–2
Landru, Henri Désiré, “Bluebeard,” 279
Lane, Adam Leroy, the “Hunting Humans ‘Ninja’ Truck Driver,” 299
Lane, Doil, 168
Lang, Donald, 308
Langer, Walter C., 16
Langmaid, Josie, 193
LaPage (LaPagette), Joseph, the “French Monster,” 192–93
Larson, Erik, 181, 183
Last Gate, The (Babylonian Talmud), 75
Late Paleolithic Age, 46
Latomia, Catherine, 125
Laudanum, 196, 201
LBIMP (Land Border Illegal Migration Profiling systems), 248
Leçons Orales sur les Phrénopathies (Lectures in Psychology) (Guislain), 136
Legebokoff, Cody, 343
Leisure theory of serial killing, 74–75, 78
Lennon, John, 357
Leonski, Edward Joseph, the “Singing Strangler,” 323
Less-than-dead syndrome, 80–84, 116, 118, 129, 153, 175, 176, 226, 290–91, 305, 338, 351
Leyton, Elliott, 11, 151
Lie-detecting polygraphs, 346
Lilly, J. Robert, 320–22
Limbic system (paleomammalian complex), 36–38, 48, 60, 64
Linkage analysis, 259–60, 270–71, 273, 298–301
Linkage blindness, 56, 144, 191, 193, 197–98, 250, 281, 294, 295, 298, 346
Literacy, rise of, 79, 129
“Little Red Riding Hood,” 116–18, 337
Locard, Edmond, 258, 278
Locard’s exchange principle, 258
Lombroso, Cesare, 51, 62, 130, 134, 173, 258
London Daily Post, 14n
“London Monster,” 206–10
London police, 79, 224, 225, 237, 245, 250
Long, Bobby Joe, 290, 309
“Long Island Serial Killer (LISK)” (“Gilgo Beach Killer/Craigslist Ripper”), 144, 342, 343, 345
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), 259, 284, 298
Louisiana-Texas ax murderer, 281–82
Lovecraft, H. P., 327
Lovemaps (Money), 50
Lucas, Henry Lee, 167, 257, 262, 290, 295, 301, 306
Lucas, Mrs., 262
Ludke, Bruno, 279
Lupina insania, 114
Lupina melancholia, 114
Lupine insania, 92
Lust killers, 11, 29, 32, 50–70, 136 (see also Serial killers)
Lycanthropy, 87–88, 91–93, 96, 108, 114–15
Lycaon, King of Arcadia, 88
Lycomania, 92, 114
Lynching, 139
Lyon Institute of Forensic Medicine, France, 257, 273, 276
MacFarlane, Gary “Mick,” 19–20
MacLean, Paul D., 36
Mad Men (television series), 289
Madonna/whore dichotomy, 61–62, 119, 317
Mage, Flore, 170
Maier, Robert, 186–87
Maleficium, 92
Mallard ducks, 43
Mallet, Simon, 144
Malleus Maleficarum (The Witches’ Hammer), 95–98, 114, 120, 122, 124, 337
Maloiseau, Marcel, 169
Mamardashvili, Merab, 41
Man into Wolf: An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism, and Lycanthropy (Eisler), 13–14, 88–89
Mania lupine, 92
Maniac (movie), 12
Manson, Charles, 168, 290, 339, 354–55
Manson Family murders, 20–21, 289, 291
Man with a Hoe (Millet), 153
Marchal de Calvi, Charles-Jacob, 133–34, 136
Mariamne, wife of King Herod, 75–76
Mary, Theophil, 211
Maschalagnia, 53
Mask of Sanity, The: An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality (Cleckley), 266–67
Masochism, 53, 137, 252
Mass murder, 11
Masturbation, 17, 65, 69, 131, 150, 172, 173, 252, 264, 335
Maxwell, Bobby Joe, 308
Mazoperosis, 54
McLaren, Angus, 81, 121
McNaughton, Daniel, 106
McNaughton (M’Naghten) rules, 106, 134, 273
McQueen, Steve, 21
MDMA (XTC), 93
Meaning of Murder, The (Brophy), 13
Measuring Man incidents, 151–52
Meehan, Brian, 86–87
Mellor, Lee, 13, 136, 240
Men’s adventure magazines, 17, 313–18, 334, 338, 349
Mesfewi, Hadj Mohammed, 279–80
Metesky, George, 16
Method of operation (or modus operandi) (MO), 67, 240, 241, 249, 259
Michel, Louise, 144
Middle Paleolithic Age (Middle Stone Age), 42
Midwives, 121
Mildy, Madame, 169–70
Millen, Horace, 190–92
Miller, Lawrence, 330
Millet, Jean-François, 153
Mimetic compulsion, 81–82, 121, 126, 127, 211, 313, 333, 352
“Missing Children, Misleading Statistics” (Best), 286
Missing Children’s Act of 1982, 297
Missing Children’s Assistance Act of 1984, 297
Missing missing victims, 81, 293, 296
Missionary serial killers, 22, 26, 27
Mixoscopia, 53
Modus operandi (or method of operation) (MO), 67, 240, 241, 249, 259
Mondale, Walter, 20
Money, John William, 37, 50, 60–62, 119, 319
Monomania, 111, 134, 267
Monsters, 32, 50, 79, 91, 95, 120, 121, 130
Moore, Henry Lee, 281
Moore, Manuel, 307
Morrison, Helen, 25
Mosley, Eddie Lee, 308
Motiveless killing, 11
Motta, Johanna, 171–73
Mullin, Herbert, the “Die Song Killer,” 98, 290, 291, 308, 331
Multicide, 11
Multiple murder, 11
Munchausen-syndrome-by-proxy killers, 27, 28
Murder Accountability Project (MAP), 294
Murderabilia, 290
Mussolini, Benito, 167, 174
My Secret Life (“Walter”), 153
Napoleon, 157
Napoleonic code, 106
Napoleonic Wars, 132, 140
Narco-gang-cult ritual murders, 31
Nasophilia, 53
National Bureau of Standards, 278
National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC), 26, 297, 298
National Institute of Standards, 278
Navajo Indians, 88
Nazaretyan, Akop, 41
Nazi Germany, 124, 279, 310–12, 314, 315, 320, 325, 334, 342
Neanderthals, 38–46
Necromutilimaniacs, 135
Necrophagia, 54, 132
Necrophilia, 30, 32, 36, 43, 44, 48, 50, 54, 57, 67, 75–76, 132, 202, 203, 240, 250, 256, 279, 283, 287, 292, 324, 329, 334, 337
categorization of, 135–36
coinage of term, 136
incidence of, 137
Necrophilic fantasizers, 135
Necrophilic role-players, 135
Necrophobia, 41–44, 46
Necrosadism, 54, 136
Nelson, Earle Leonard, the “Dark Stranger Gorilla Killer,” 283, 337
Neocortex (neomammalian cortex), 36–37, 48
Nero, Emperor, 74
Neuroses, 41, 134
New York Times, 13, 18, 281, 323
Newspapers, 79, 80, 207, 210, 226, 232–33, 250, 272, 286, 291, 301–2
Newton, Michael, 13
Ng, Charles, 290, 309
Nichols, Mary Ann, 163, 227, 237
Nigra, Domenica, 165
9/11 terrorist attacks, 128, 305, 340, 354
Nobu
s, Dany, 136
Norepinephrine, 112
Norris, Charles, 308
Northcott, Gordon, the “Wineville Chicken Coop Murderer,” 283
Nuremberg Race Laws, 124
Ockham’s razor, 63, 249
Oculophilia, 53
O’Dell, Leslie Ann, 6
Oedipus complex, 43
Ogorzov, Paul, 279
Oldowan tools, 45
Oliver Twist (Dickens), 212
Olsen, Jack, 330
On Anger (De Ira) (Seneca the Younger), 76
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (Grossman), 304, 319–20
On Medicine (Paul of Aegina), 92
One Hundred Twenty Days of Sodom, The (Sade), 52
Opportunistic necrophiles, 135
Organic brain disorder, 34
Organized crime, 27
Organized/disorganized/mixed classifications of serial killers, 15–16, 28, 32, 136, 243
Orsolano, Giorgio, the “Hyena of San Giorgio/Cannibal Sausage Maker,” 164–67
Orsolano, Margherita, 165
Ostrog, Michael, 246
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 289
Outlaw profit killers, 180
Pagnoncelli, Elisabetta, 172
Paine, Billy, 186
Paleogenomics, 40
Pall Mall Gazette, 163–64
Papacy, 94
Paraesthesia, 52, 62
Paraphilias, 26, 52–65, 69, 119, 134, 137, 207, 210, 252, 347
Pardo, Manuel, 309
Parker, Norman, Jr., 307
Partialism, 52, 53, 207
Paster, James Emery, 307
Pattern killers, 11, 12
Patz, Etan, 294
Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka: The Ken and Barbie Killers (Vronsky and Parker), 24
Paul of Aegina, 92
Pederasty, 54
Pedophilia, 54
Peking Man, 42
Pell, Claiborne, 295–96
Penis envy, 43
Penn, Sean, 21
Penny dreadful, 130
Pérez, Francisco Guerrero, “El Chalequero,” 280
Perogynia, 54
Perrault, Charles, 116
Perrin, Victorine, 143
Personality disorders, 33, 65, 134
Perversions, 50, 52
Petiot, Marcel, 279
Philippe, Louis-Joseph, the “Terror of Paris,” 169–70, 253
Pichon, Marie, 137–40, 143–46, 148, 149
Pickton, Robert, 83
Pieydagnelle, Eusebius, the “Blood Butcher,” 171, 253
Pignocco, Teresa, 164–65
Piper, Thomas C., 194–95
Piper, Thomas W., the “Boston Belfry Murderer/the Bat,” 194–202, 267
Piquerism (picquerism), 54, 210, 240, 241
Pirates, 73, 128, 129
Pitezel, Benjamin F., 181, 183
Pizer, John “Leather Apron,” 229, 237
Plato, 78, 353
Plushophilia, 53
Pogo syndrome, 352
Poirier, Marguerite, 104–5
Poisoners, female, 128, 129, 180, 206, 282
Polanski, Roman, 20–21
Police, 79–80, 98, 128, 129, 132, 142–44, 146, 147, 156, 166, 169, 191, 192, 196, 224, 225, 237, 245, 250, 255–56, 259, 284, 298, 344–46, 350
Pomeroy, Jesse, the “Boy Fiend,” 185–92, 194, 204, 267, 276
Pomeroy, Mrs., 185–87, 189, 191
Pommerenke, Heinrich, 336
Pornography, 34, 67, 153, 250–52, 294, 306, 337, 348–50
Porphyria cutanea tarda, 115
Port, Stephen, the “Grindr Killer,” 21
Portalier, Victor, 258, 266, 270, 275, 276
Power assertive motivation, 29
Power reassurance motivation, 28
Pratt, George, 187–88
Previtali, Maria, 172
Prieur, Claude, 86, 111–12
Printing press, 93, 95
Profiling, 16, 76, 77n, 345
geoforensic, 246–48, 250, 346, 350
LBIMP (Land Border Illegal Migration Profiling systems), 248
Profit killers, 27, 180, 280
Prostitutes, 4–6, 8, 23, 27, 77, 80–83, 116, 118, 119, 129, 152, 153, 160, 170, 175, 176, 197, 203, 212, 226–35, 241, 243–45, 248–51, 263, 264, 280, 293, 337, 358, 360, 363
Protestant Church, 95–97
Pryor, Mary Ann, 361
Psycho (movie), 12, 135, 262
Psycho murder, 11
Psychopathia Sexualis: Eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie (Sexual Psychopathy: A Clinical-Forensic Study) (Krafft-Ebing), 32, 51–52, 137, 161–62, 164, 276, 284, 288, 332
Psychopathy, 26, 33–35, 64–65, 108, 134, 160, 196–97, 266–75
Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PLC-R), 34
PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), 312
Public killings, 77–78
Puente, Dorothea, the “Death House Landlady,” 20, 33
Pygmalianism, 53
Pythagoras, 90
Quinet, Kenna, 293
Quintanilla, Raúl, 280
Racial hate, 22
Rader, Dennis, the “BTK Killer,” 23, 58, 61, 68, 242, 302, 307, 331, 336, 351, 359
Rader, William Elvin, 331
Radford University/FGCU (Florida Gulf Coast University) Serial Killer Database, 17, 85, 181, 280, 283, 292–93, 342.296
Rais, Gilles de, “Bluebeard,” 74–75, 99, 116–17, 276
Ramirez, Richard, the “Nightstalker,” 21, 33, 87, 287, 290, 301, 309
Ramsland, Katherine, 23, 331, 336
Rand, Andre, 307
Rape, 28–30, 40, 43, 44, 48, 79, 90, 94, 99, 119, 124–28, 150, 177, 178, 192, 193, 201–3, 251, 256, 259, 263, 266, 283, 287, 319–24, 333–38, 349, 350, 361
Raptophilia, 53
Ratcliff Highway Murders, 211–12
Reagan, Ronald, 134
Recreational killers, 11, 74
Rees, Melvin “Sex Beast,” 288, 335
Regular necrophiles, 135
Reid, Sasha, 345
Reign of the Demonologists: The Diabolist Logic of the Torture Trials (Dashu), 120, 125–26
Reisinger, Barbara, 155–59, 162
Religious ecstasy, 34
Renaissance, 87, 93–94, 111, 113, 121, 124, 127, 131
Reptilian brain (R-complex), 35–37, 48, 60, 324, 349
Reséndiz, Angel, 309
Ressler, Robert K., 14–16, 97, 238, 294, 297, 298
Revenge-displaced anger serial killers, 29
Reverse intermetamorphosis, 93
Rhoades, Robert Ben, 307
Ridgway, Gary, the “Green River Killer,” 10, 33, 61, 67, 68, 73, 82, 118, 196, 224, 240, 242, 245, 249, 302, 308, 341, 359
Rifkin, Joel, 82, 290, 309
Ripperature, 225
Ripperology, cult of, 184, 224, 225, 232, 237, 250
Ritual serial killers, 31, 66
River, Paul de, 16
Robbers, 73, 149
Robert, Julie, 170
Roberts, David James, 307
Roberts, Mary Louise, 321–22
Robinson, John Ed., 307
Robinson, Sarah Jane, the “Poison Fiend,” 180
Rode, James, 309
Rodgers, Joseph Seymour, 184–85
Rolling, Danny, 33, 290, 309
Roman law, 106
Romantic necrophiles, 135
Romasanta, Manuel Blanco, the “Werewolf of Allariz,” 167–69
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 325
Rossmo, Kim, 247, 248
Roth, Philip, 347
Rough sex, 63–64
Roulet (Rollet), Jacques, 113–14
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 131
Rule,
Ann, 10, 13, 291
Rumbelow, Donald, 225
Sacamantecas (“fat extractor”), 168, 179
Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von, 252
Sade, Marquis de, 52, 251, 252
Sadism, 29, 52, 54, 78, 89, 90, 137, 252, 275, 276
Sadist raffiné (genteel sadist), 277, 285
Saint-Victor, Paul de, 154
Saintly love/sinful lust, 61–62, 119
Sangomas muti, 31
Scalping, 188
Scavarda, Catherine, 165
Schaefer, Gary Lee, 308
Schaefer, Gerard, 290, 308
Schechter, Harold, 13, 183, 339
Schizophrenic psychosis disorders, 93
Schurman-Kauflin, Deborah, 25
Scopophilia, 55
Scorsese, Martin, 181
Scot, Reginald, 114
Scott, Winfield Townley, 327
Scully, Anthony, 307
Seidel, Katherina, 155–59, 162
Seinfeld (television show), 82
Seltzer, Mark, 81, 121, 180, 310
Selzer, Adam, 183–84
Senate Judiciary Committee, Juvenile Justice Subcommittee of, 294
Seneca the Younger, 73, 76, 77–78
Sequential homicide, 11
Serial adventures, 14
Serial erotophonophilia, 26, 29–30
Serial Homicide Expertise and Information Sharing Collaborative (SHEISC), 292
Serial killers
ancient aristocrats, 75–78
antihero status of, 286–87, 347–48
average age of, 59, 69, 165, 220, 306
categorizing, 15–16
celebrity, 276, 290, 291
childhood histories of, 33–34, 44, 49, 55–58, 60–67, 78, 79, 119, 244, 261–63, 318–19, 330–33
chronology of, 306–9
coining the term, 11–14
control and revenge and, 65–67, 69, 119, 150, 163
cooling-off period and, 25–27
cult, 20, 168
current theories on, 33–35
decline in, 339–50
definitions of, 19–20, 24–28, 25, 185, 204, 342
evolutionary view of, 35–49
from fantasy to reality, 63–68
female, 20, 24, 27, 28, 30, 55, 128, 129, 180, 192, 206, 280, 282, 287, 288
first, 13, 181, 185, 204
gay, 278
geoforensic profiling and, 246–48, 250, 346, 350
golden age of, 285–303, 310, 330–32, 334, 348, 354
Great Witch Hunt and, 94, 99, 120–28, 297, 310, 317, 353
groupies and, 203, 287
industrialization and, 80, 129, 132, 139, 152
interviewing, 266–70, 346
leisure and, 74–75, 78
less-than-dead syndrome and, 80–84, 116, 118, 129, 153, 175, 176, 226, 290–91, 305, 338, 351
missionary, 22, 26, 27
“mommy dearest” school of, 262
movies about, 12–13, 16, 135, 240, 262, 284, 287, 352
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