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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