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by Peter Vronsky


  newspapers and, 79, 80, 82, 129–30, 207, 210, 226, 232–33, 250, 272, 286, 291, 301–2

  1900–1950, 277–85

  1950–2000, 285–305

  organized/disorganized/mixed classifications of, 15–16, 28, 32, 136, 243

  physiognomy of, 51, 138, 173

  pornography and, 251–52

  race and, 23–24, 85

  redefining, 24–28

  rise of modern American, 180–204

  rise of modern in Europe (1800–1887), 131–79

  routine life of trauma and, 78–79

  second-kill addiction and, 68–69

  self-destructive escalation of, 177–78

  signature of, 67, 76, 162, 188, 240–41, 277, 288, 361

  stalkers, raptors, marauders, or commuters, 247–48

  surge in 1970s–1980s, 12, 17–18, 32, 83, 87, 273, 291

  survival model and, 62

  trauma control model and, 62, 64, 65

  triggers and, 67, 68

  underreporting and, 293–94

  unidentified (unsub), 12, 70, 243–44, 272, 276, 282, 342–43

  urbanization and mobility and, 83–84, 86, 140, 306, 338

  visionary, 27–28, 98

  youngest on record, 185, 192

  Serial Killers: Death and Life in America’s Wound Culture (Seltzer), 180

  Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (Vronsky), 22, 23, 30, 63, 278, 351, 356

  Serotonin levels, 112

  “Servant-Girl Annihilator,” 204

  Servant girl fetish, 152–55, 161–63, 309, 337

  “Seven Bridges Road Killer,” 342

  Sexual Criminal, The: A Psychoanalytical Study (De River), 284

  Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives (Ressler, Douglas and Burgess), 16, 43, 90, 97

  Sexual Life of Human Beings, The (Freud), 50

  Shaftoe, Derrick, 328–29, 331–32

  Shakespeare, William, 63

  Shawcross, Arthur, the “Genesee River Killer,” 68, 224, 263, 267, 290, 307, 330–31

  Shawcross, Roy, 330–31

  Sherman, Lydia, the “American Borgia,” 180

  Shoe fetish, 52, 57–60, 63, 66, 347

  Siebert, Daniel, 309

  Silence of the Lambs, The (Harris), 16

  Silence of the Lambs, The (movie), 16, 240, 287, 352

  Silveria, Robert J., 309

  Simpson, O. J., 82, 301–2

  Sledge, E. B., 325–26

  Smith, G. Wentworth, 237

  Smith, George, 279

  Social media, 344–45

  Sociopathy, 26, 33, 65, 134

  Socrates, 78

  Solomon, Morris, Jr., 307

  “Son of Cain or Son of Sam?” (Meehan), 86–87

  Sorcery, 92, 95

  Souder, Wilmer (Detective X), 278

  Sowell, Anthony, the “Cleveland Strangler,” 23, 309

  Speck, Richard, 289

  Specter, Arlen, 294

  Spree killing, 11

  Spruill, Eugene, 308

  Standage, Tom, 139

  Stano, Gerald, 290, 308

  Starr, Douglas, 267

  Steam power, 139–40

  Steelman, William Luther, 308

  Stoker, Bram, 7

  Stone Age, 30, 36, 38–47, 357

  Strand, Ginger, 83–84, 305

  Stranger Beside Me, The (Rule), 10, 12, 291

  Stranger-on-stranger murder, 11

  Strappado, 123

  Stride, Elizabeth, 229–30, 240, 242

  Stubbe, Peter, the “Werewolf of Bedburg,” 99–101, 102, 118

  Substance abuse, 34, 84

  Suff, William Lester, 82, 301–2, 308

  Sullivan, Minnie, 202

  Sumerian clay tablets, 50

  Surveillance cameras, 344

  Sutcliffe, Peter, the “Yorkshire Ripper,” 196, 262

  Swain, Thomas, 215

  Swango, Michael, 309

  Sweats, 315, 317, 337, 350

  “Sweet Pea Girl,” 203, 287

  Tabram, Martha, 235, 237, 240, 249, 255

  Tactile necrophiles, 135

  Taken by Force: Rape and American GIs in Europe (Lilly), 321

  Tales of My Mother Goose (Perrault), 116

  Tasmanians, 42

  Tate, Sharon, 21

  Taxi Driver (movie), 134

  Taylor, Gary, 306

  Teasley, David, 117

  Techno-humanitarian balance hypothesis, 46, 340

  Telegraph, introduction of, 139–40

  10 Rillington Place (movie), 12

  Terror Train (movie), 12

  Terrorism, 26, 27, 94, 128, 305, 340, 348, 352, 354

  Tertullian (Qunitus Tertullianus), 91

  Testosterone levels, 112

  Teten, Howard, 16

  Theatrical drama, 78

  Thirty Years’ War, 97, 127

  Thrill-hedonist serial killers, 27

  Thrill killing, 11

  Times of London, 236–37

  Times Square Torso Ripper: Sex and Murder on the Deuce (Vronsky), 7

  To Tell the Truth (television show), 21

  Todd, Sweeney, the “Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” 205

  Tonso, Francesca, 165–66

  Toole, Ottis, 167, 290, 295, 308

  Toppan, Jane, “Jolly Jane,” 180

  Torture, 29, 30, 79, 94, 119, 122–28, 157–58, 186–88, 268, 333–34, 362, 364

  Toxin analysis, 257

  TraKRS (Task Force Review Aimed at Catching Killers, Rapists and Sexual Offenders), 301

  Trauma, routine life of, 78–79

  Trichophilia, 53

  Triune brain, 35, 37, 89, 329

  True-detective magazines, 313–14, 317–18, 334–38, 349

  Trump, Donald, 347

  Tucker, Richard, Jr., 307

  Tumblety, Francis J., 246

  Turner Broadcasting, 18

  Tynan, Mary, 197–98, 201, 202

  Unidentified (unsub) serial killers, 12, 70, 204, 243–44, 272, 276, 282, 342–43

  United Nations, 40, 46

  “US Sailor with the Japanese Skull, The” (Scott), 327

  University of Texas sniper killing, 289

  Urbanization, 83–84, 86, 140, 152, 306, 338

  Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide (Jenkins), 280–81

  Vacher, Eugène/Eugénie, 261

  Vacher, Joseph, the “Southeast Ripper/Killer of Little Shepherds,” 254–56, 258, 260–68, 270–77

  Vacher, Marie-Rose (Rosalie) Ravit, 261–63

  Vacher, Pierre, 261

  Vagabonds, 253–61, 263, 265, 266, 270, 271

  Valenti, Richard, 307

  Vampires, 32, 50, 79, 90–91, 115, 133–36, 206, 292

  Vampirism, 33, 43, 132, 133, 172, 173

  Van Deen, J. Izaak, 148

  Vandalized lovemap theory of paraphilias, 60–62

  Vendettas, 99

  Verdung, Michel, the “Werewolf of Poligny,” 101–2

  Versace, Gianni, 22, 26

  Verzeni, Vincenzo, the “Vampire of Bergamo,” 131, 171–73, 276

  ViCAP (Violent Criminal Apprehension Program), 87, 260, 298–301, 346

  ViCLAS (Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System), 301

  Vietnam War, 312, 315, 323, 329, 331, 338

  Vigilante justice, 99, 139

  Visionary serial killers, 27–28, 98

  Vogel, Nancy Schiava, 360, 361

  Voltaire, 131

  Voyeurism, 55, 66, 251

  Walker, William Henry, 216

  Wallace, Veronica Compton, 288

  Walsh, Adam, 294–95

  Walsh, John, 294–95, 297

  Walter, Richard, 16

  War crimes, 27, 40, 128
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  War trophies, 135, 305, 324–30

  Warner, Minnie, 213, 214

  Washington Beltway snipers, 27

  Waterboarding, 123

  Waters, Joseph, 216

  Watts, Carl Eugene, 309, 331

  Weapons, ancient, 39, 41, 45, 46

  Weaver, Ward, Jr., 307

  Websleuths, 345

  Weiss, Jennifer, 8–9, 357–60, 362–66

  “Werewolf of Chalon,” 102–3

  Werewolves, 32, 50, 79, 87–118, 120, 126–28, 206, 212, 292, 341

  Westerns, 180, 310

  Westies gang, 4

  Weston, Joe, 321–22

  Westphalia, Treaty of (1648), 127, 128

  What’s My Line? (television show), 21

  When the Soldiers Came (Gebhardt), 322

  White, Charles, 215

  Whitechapel murders, 14n, 163–64, 181, 223–46, 248–50, 256

  Wilder, Christopher, 26, 307, 331

  Williams, John, 212

  Williams, Minnie Flora, 203

  Williams, Nannie, 182

  Williams, Renwick (Rhynwick), the “London Monster,” 206–10, 219

  Williams, Russell, 22, 58

  Williams, Wayne, 13, 18, 25, 84, 290, 294, 309

  Wilson, Colin, 250

  Winslow, L. Forbes, 236–37

  Witches, 79, 91, 92, 94–98, 111–13, 119, 120–28, 306, 341

  Witches’ chair, 123

  Witches’ sabbaths, 121

  With the Old Breed (Sledge), 325–26

  Wolf Man, 32

  Wolf man syndrome, 92

  Wood, David Leonard, 309

  Woodcock, Peter (David Michael Krueger), 68, 262

  Woodfield, Randy, 308

  World War I, 311

  World War II, 135, 310–13, 319–34, 338, 354, 365

  Wound culture, 81

  X-rays, 274, 276

  Yaksic, Enzo, 292, 343, 345

  Yates, Robert, 249, 309

  Young, Mabel, 198–201

  Zani, Robert Joseph, 307

  Zeus (god), 88

  Zoanthropy, 93

  Zodiac Killer, 12, 70, 224

  Zombies, 32–33, 35, 292

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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Peter Vronsky, PhD, is an investigative historian and a former film and television documentary producer. He is the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters and Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters and a contributor to R. J. Parker’s annual Serial Killers: True Crime Anthology series, currently in its fifth year of publication. He is an authority on Canada’s first modern battle, which he has written about in his definitive book, Ridgeway: The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada.

  Peter Vronsky holds a PhD from the University of Toronto in the fields of criminal justice history and the history of espionage in international relations. He teaches history at Ryerson University in Toronto. He divides his time between Toronto, Canada, and Venice, Italy.

  Visit his website at www.petervronsky.org.

  * Even earlier, possibly, the words “Whitechapel serial killer” apparently are used in a newspaper article in the November 9, 1888, edition of the London Daily Post’s coverage of Jack the Ripper. The words appear in a stock house montage of Victorian-era newspaper clippings, the authenticity of which I was not able to confirm before this book went to press. See the end of the first paragraph in the second column of the newspaper in the image: http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-the-londonpost-november-9th-1888-clippings-of-the-fifthand-final-52938673.html. Thanks to Bettye McKee for pointing this item out to me.

  * The argument that necrophobia is a rational impulse necessary to protect humans from contracting diseases from corpses is undermined by the presence of a powerful olfactory response in humans to the smell of decaying flesh.

  * Some animals manifest the rudimentary use of twigs, branches and rocks as “found” building material and primitive tools, an ability they might have developed recently, over the last two million years, but they do not fashion and shape tools.

  * In modern medicine the term “paraesthesia” refers to a tingling type of numbness, not a perversion.

  * Two thousand years later, one of the profiling systems for serial killers and rapists uses the term “anger excitation” to describe the most vicious category of perpetrators, those motivated by unbridled sadistic fantasies and impulses.

  * The last woman known to have been put to death as a witch in Europe was Anna Goeldi, a servant in Switzerland in 1782 accused of communing with the Devil in poisoning the daughter of her employer. In 2008, a Swiss Protestant Church council reviewed her case and absolved her of witchcraft (226 years too late).

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