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The Killers Among Us: Examination of Serial Murder and Its Investigations (2nd Edition)
Steven A. Egger
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ASIN: 0130179159 |
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This book brings together all of what we know, what we think we know, and what we don't know about the horrific violence of serial murder.Part I introduces the subject of serial murder and presents the "six myths" of serial murder that interfere with understanding and successful investigation. Part II presents detailed case studies of four infamous serial killers, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Kenneth Bianchi and Henry Lee Lucas. Part III focuses on the investigation of serial murder, showing the problems law enforcement faces -- notably "linkage blindness," the inability of unwillingness of police agencies to share information on unsolved murders. This seciton includes an extensive discussion of fourteen different police responses to serial murder. Finally, the author -- a noted criminologist and former homicide investigator -- discusses the future of serial murder and its investigation.Students of criminology, psychology and sociology; true crime buffs; mystery writers and readers; journalists; skeptics; and criminal justice professionals.
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A rare and important work.......2002-04-30
As a researcher, writer and student of serial murder, I believe that Dr. Egger's work is important for three reasons. #1- He writes for the average person who wants to know more about serial murder. He attempts to dispel some of the myths about these people. He gives the average interested person a standard to judge media coverage and the facts in a more informed way. #2- He writes for the person in the criminal justice system whose job it is to deal with the Killers Among Us. His observations and suggestions are helpful and succinct. #3- Dr. Egger is one of the few "experts" in this field who is a voice for the victims and encourages and demands that we do not forget the many victims who have died at the hands of a serial killer.
Dr. Egger was the first person in the world to deal with the investigation of serial murder as a PhD student. His understanding of this phenomenon is enormous.
This book is used in universities throughout the world to introduce students to serial murder and to critically look at this field beyond the pop culture symbolism that it is usually looked upon. This second edition showcases three student contributors. Dr. Egger's motives are to inform, educate, and contribute to apprehending these killers as he said in his PhD dissertation, "so that lives can be saved."
I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants an accurate overview of the subject.
A rare achievement.......2001-01-17
This study of serial murder has been acclaimed as both scientifically sound and reliable. Dr. Egger puts down numerous myths that have confused and bedeviled the study of serial killers for decades. A noted authority, a strong academic voice on the subject of criminology. A fine work. Includes studies of John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, the Hillside Stranglers and Henry Lee Lucas. Dr. Egger spent more than 50 hours with Lucas who managed to fool everyone in authority by retracting his early confessions. The damning factor about Lucas is that teenage girls are no longer disappearing from the highways of South Texas like they did for the past 30 years.
Another example of opinion without knowledge........1999-06-22
When Mr. Egger tries to validate the investigation of Henry Lee Lucas and terms him one of the most brutal serial killers, he is a fool. He was given access to the Texas Rangers' investigation of Lucas, which has been refuted by solid media reporting, an attorney general's investigation and the governor of Texas (who commuted Lucas' death sentence). If Eggers was as good a reporter as promoter, this might be worth something. And he never even met Bundy.
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- Interesting enough insights, a bit tedious to read
- too simple
- shedding light on the darkness
- Intense, Real, and Riviting
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The Unknown Darkness: Profiling the Predators Among Us
Gregg O. McCrary
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Release Date: 2004-09-28 |
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In basement offices three stories below the ground at the FBI's Academy in Quantico, Virginia, former Supervisory Agent Gregg McCrary was among the first generation of the most elite force for criminal investigation in the world.
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The Unknown Darkness, McCrary takes the reader behind the crime scene to examine in raw first-person close-up the lethal competition between America's most dangerous predators and the dedicated souls who pledge to put them away. McCrary's 25 years in the Bureau have yielded over 1000 cases to draw upon. The 10 he describes in the book reveal the strengths and pitfalls of modern criminal investigation.
McCrary is not afraid to answer the questions most often skirted by the others: what happens at the crime scene, what kind of person does it take to grapple with the serial killers among us, and exactly how do we disarm the enemy?
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Interesting enough insights, a bit tedious to read.......2005-01-02
I've read just about everything by John Douglas and other books on profiling, and am a bit of a Court TV junkie. This book provides new information and insights into criminal profiling and certain cases than previously available, and for that reason, I'd recommend it for a true crime fan. It provides new information on the Paul Bernardo / Karla Homolka husband and wife serial rape "team", the Buddhist Temple Massacre near Phoenix, and the Waco tragedy. The fact that McCary presents fairly convincing evidence that Karla Homolka was hardly the "battered wife" she's usually presented to be in this highly documented case was the most startling to me.
The problem is the writing is tedious to read at several points, and the chapter on the Waco stand-off seems to go on forever. The book could have used some more work by the editor, as some paragraphs don't really fit together and some of the narrative goes along in a herky jerky fashion. For this reason, I would not recommend this book for someone with just a passing interest in the subject.
too simple.......2004-08-04
You can learn more in a one hour Discovery Channel special than you will in this book. The writing style is simplistic and tediously "Dragnet cute" which doesn't help. What the book needs is a real writer and someone to help organize the material better. Oh, yes, and an editor to cut out the many self-congratulatory asides that further weaken the project.
shedding light on the darkness.......2004-07-02
McCrary and Ramsland recount several high-profile cases where psychological profiling has succeeded in solving the crime. All make fascinating reading, but what is probably the most interesting aspect of the book is his harsh assessment of the handling of the Waco standoff with Koresh and his followers. Like a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, McCrary objectively analyzes the evidence and makes a conclusion. His analysis of the Sam Sheppard case has changed my opinion of who the real murderer was.
My only complaint, which at least one other reviewer has stated, is that this book (and all the others written by FBI profilers, for that matter) only focus on the successes, and don't deal with cases where profiling has failed miserably (such as the D.C. sniper case). (...)
Intense, Real, and Riviting.......2004-05-21
"The Unkown Darkness" was the best book I have read in a long time! Agent McCrary has written a book that is hard to put down. He is as informative as he is humble in this book on real serial killers and his role in their capture. I highly reccommend this book to anyone who has an interest in serial killers or criminal justice in America!
One of the Good Guys.......2004-05-05
Aside from the fact that this book is fascinating from the first page to the last, it is a comfort to know that men like Mr. McCrary are out there on the front lines in the fight against violent crime. I am thankful that the work done by these brave men helps to keep the rest of us safer - and helps to bring the guilty to justice. It is disturbing to see exactly what satanic depths humanity is capable of reaching, but it does not do any good to bury our heads under the covers and hope the monsters will go away. Bravo to Mr. McCrary and others like him, who give of their intelligence, their time, and their talents to make the world a safer place.
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- Excellent Story From an Amateurish Writer
- Memorable Story!
- Too long, some untruths
- A Great Case of Deja Vu
- Worth the money
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A Killer among Us (Onyx True Crime)
Charles Bosworth
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On March 16, 1992, Elizabeth DeCaro, a 28 year-old mother of four was found dead in her own home, murdered execution-style with two bullets to the head. Her husband Rick was immediately suspect, having previously struck her "accidentally" with the family van after taking out a $100,000 life insurance policy on her. A Killer Among Us presents the true shocking story of Elizabeth's family and their search for justice against the man who continued to play father to the children whose mother he had killed.
Charles Bosworth Jr. is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Previous Victims and Silent Witness Real-life case received extensive local and national coverage Fascinating legal elements--three trials, a death penalty conviction, and a dramatic reversal in federal court
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Excellent Story From an Amateurish Writer.......2006-12-18
If you are willing to wade through reference after reference to the perfection of the victim's family, you will actually find an interesting story about Richard DeCaro and how he hired someone to kill his wife, Elizabeth Van Isghem DeCaro. Most interesting is the fact that he beat a conviction on the charge of First Degree Murder in state Court but Federal Authorities were able to avoid the Double Jeopardy Clause and try him for Conspiracy and Murder for Hire in Federal Court; subsequently receiving a conviction.
The one aggravating factor of this book, however, is that repeatedly the reader is subjected to reminders of the perfection of the Van Isghems. A 458 page book could have easily been narrowed to just over 200 pages if this newspaper report turned true crime writer (Bosworth, Jr.) had simply stopped trying to paint a Norman Rockwell portrait of the Van Ishgems. In his attempt to convince us of their perfection, he fails to detail much of DeCaro's background or information his family. DeCaro's family, for the most part, is only given a fleeting glance; and that is when it paints them in a bad light.
I enjoyed the story, but Bosworth will never be considered one of my favorite writers until he learns to break away from the sensationalism of newspaper and write factual true crime.
Memorable Story!.......2006-07-26
Despite the fact that women are more likely to be killed by their husbands and lovers rather than strangers is a sad fact of reality. The victim was a good woman came from a loving family who would do anything for her. Sadly, greed and her husband's own problems led to planning and killing the mother of his children by getting somebody else to do it. It's still a tragedy in St. Charles, Missouri no matter how many times this happens whether in St. Charles, St. Louis, St. Joseph, or anywhere. It's still a sad fact of life that her children will grow up without a mother around and the father is in prison for the crime and leaving many friends and relatives behind grieving for a lovely Catholic housewife who wanted to have a good marriage and raise her children to be productive adults with all her love. I can only pray that the children are surrounded by her kind and loving relatives now.
Too long, some untruths.......2006-02-25
For the most part, the book is good. I found it entirely too long, though. One thing that amazed me was how the author instructed the reader how to pronounce a fairly simple name like Basile, but left it up to us to decipher Van Iseghem.
Had I not had so much time invested in reading this book, I would have thrown it in the trash once I read the the biased and untrue comments about talk show host Rush Limbaugh that the author wrote.
Although I'm sure Elizabeth DeCaro's family are good people, I would have liked to have less dwelling on them and a more balanced view of all of the people in her life, such as her in-laws.
I'm sure they are nice, but they seemed a little overbearing to me, kind of like they're not able to cut the old apron strings and not interfere with their adult children's lives. Except that they didn't all live together, they practically reminded me of the Ewings from "Dallas."
The book could have been boiled down by about 100 pages and still had the information down. I'm sure Rick was guilty of conspiracy to commit murder. He had it too well orchestrated. It was so obvious.
And, was it really necessary to change the names of the DeCaro children? It took me about two minutes to find out their real names: Ricky, Jodie, Courtney, and Tony.
A Great Case of Deja Vu.......2004-06-19
A Killer Among Us by Charles Bosworth, Jr., of the true-crime genre, was to me a riveting tale, not just because of its intrinsic literary worth, but because it took place in St. Ann, St. Charles, and the general St. Louis area, all of which I'm so familiar with, having lived for many years in St. Ann itself about a mile of the childhood home of the victim.
I know this story from having seen it on TV, so it had no surprises; indeed, the book isn't written as a suspense tale which weaves itself to a surprise ending, the denouement being apparent from the start. Only the ultimate fate of the trigger-man was pending at the time of the book's publication.
Despite the inclusion of virtual transcripts of three different trials, inclusions which often weary the reader and detract from the spontaneity of the tale, such distraction was not the case here, possibly because the subject was sensitively handled by the perspicacious author. A great read! I highly recommend it for all true-crime afficionados.
Worth the money.......2004-02-09
I read the other reviews on this book and felt compelled to give my own opinion. First, I believe the book was very well written and despite covering three trials (which many tend to find boring), the book moved along at a good pace and never lost my attention. Second, I think the author did an excellent job of creating emotional attachments for the reader to every character in the story, whether it be one of the seedy characters or one of the sympathetic. Third, I find it amazing that so many people find it hard to believe that a horrible thing can happen to a wonderful family. Although the author does recount over and over how close the victim's family was, there is nothing wrong with a family being that close. It was not perfect -- Elizabeth delivered a child at 16 and never graduated from high school. It was not easy -- Mary raised 7 kids in a 1400 square foot house, forming strong emotional bonds with 4 children she had to continuously fight to keep. The author does not paint this family as perfect, he merely tells the story of a family whose love and support for one another overcome any obstacle, no matter how large. This book made me cry many times, and it was fascinating to read about the investigation and the trial, especially the families' reactions to peculiarities in the legal system that seem so unfair. In all, this is an excellent, well written book. I have read nearly 200 true crime books, and I rate this one in the top 10 percent both for the writer's talent and the emotional strength of the story. I recommend this book to any true crime reader.
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Killer Among Us: Public Reactions to Serial Murder
Joseph C. Fisher
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In 1973, teenage girls began disappearing from Folly Beach, a small town on a barrier island in South Carolina. Initially thought by police to be a spate of runaways, the real story emerged when a police officer on patrol heard a cry for help and found three girls bound and gagged in an abandoned beach cottage. Further investigation turned up bodies buried in the dunes nearby. The police reacted quickly and closed off the only bridge to the mainland, thereby trapping the townspeople with the certain knowledge that one among them was a serial killer. Everyone became a suspect, as neighbor turned against neighbor in an atmosphere of rapidly growing hysteria. What effects does the presence of a serial killer have on the collective health of a community? What strategies do people adopt to manage the fear and anxiety that accompany news of a serial killer's predations? And why do citizens and the media respond as they do to serial killers, who usually account for only a small portion of the homicides in the communities in which they are active? Killer Among Us addresses these questions by examining serial murder from this fresh perspective: an exploration of the ways people react when a killer is at large in their community. Drawing on 19th-century tabloid accounts of the predations of Jack the Ripper and on 20th-century media coverage of such villains as The Son of Sam and Jeffrey Dahmer, the author constructs vivid and provocative retellings of many of the most infamous cases of serial murder.
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The Killers Among Us: Motives Behind Their Madness
Colin Wilson , and Damon Wilson
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This book is so-so.......2002-08-24
I agree with the previous reviewer. This book is mediocre. Dates are inconsistent (see page 305). The book is all over the place. So many times I had to go back pages to make sense of the authors cronolgical order. If you can stand the frustration, I recommend this book only because there are stories on the lesser known serial killers that did not make the famous grade.
Not a Bedside Book!.......2002-08-17
Colin Wilso is an author interested in extraordinary human beings. Having read some of his other books, I read this one, my first "true crimes" book ever.
It is a survey of some of the worst serial killers of the last forty years or so. An initial perusal of the book had me perplexed as to why there were so little devoted to Charles Manson. Having finished the book, I now know why. Manson is a girl-scout compared to some of these serial killers!
I wish that Wilson had speculated as to why we are fascinated with serial killers. Part of the reason may be that we, "normal people", are so regimented that we secretly admire (in some ways) those who go outside of societies norms. Certainly we read these accounts, for the same reason that some of the criminals commit them...we are bored.
Interestingly, Wilson posits that murder follows a sort of shadow-side hierarchy of needs, as proposed by Abraham Maslow.
Previously murder might have been committed to attain certain basic needs like food or sex, but nowadays it is carried out as an attempt to self-actualize. Wilson also points out that serial killing has risen with the age of equality. Society gives lip service to "equality" but this turns out to be a sham in light of the disparities of wealth and notoriety. About this, Wilson comments that most serial killers are from working-class bacgrounds, and the crimes are committed as a way to acheive the status that eludes them in society at large.
This book is a survey and does not go into great depth with any particular serial killer. Frankly, it goes into enough detail for me and I wouldn't care for a huger dose of gore.
Only "glitch" that I noticed...Wilso cites the case of a murder in Sweden carried out by a man who has been put into a hynotic trance by another man. Wilso, who has studied the paranormal for over 30 years, should know that you cannot cause a person to do under hypnosis anything that he would be against.
Other than that, it was a good introduction to this genre.
Thomas
Audacious.......2002-04-12
Ambition to kill is what these serial murderers live to
each day. Hatred, power, control, and vengeance is what
the motives of these powerful killers annihilate for.
Descriptive facts of how and why murderes killed gives
us a powerful insight to what they perceive.
Not in depth but informative.......2002-01-29
This book is for you if you are keen on some quick and easy overview information on some of our societies killers. It gives you enough information to take on board and further investigate if you so desire. It is an easy read and worth picking up.
good but not great.......2001-03-28
i have read a few books about serial killers in the past and this one was mediocre. there were some good facts and information here, but the details of certain crimes were given one line while others were given entire pages. there were a few details that i did not know about several offenders. but, if you want to read a book that, i feel, is a classic, read "serial killers", by joel norris.
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A Killer is Loose Among Us (A Bloodhound Mystery)
Robert Terrall
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The Black Coat; Gift of Death; a Killer Is Loose Among Us; the Case of William Smith
Edward; Terrall, Robert; Wentworth, Patricia Little Constance & Gwentyth; Ronns
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Four mysteries in one.
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A Killer Among Us
Ben Ames Williams
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- IF YOU LIKE UNSOLVED MYSTERIES..........
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Murderers among Us: Unsolved Homicides, Mysterious Deaths & Killers at Large (True Crime)
Stephen G. Michaud , and Hugh Aynsworth
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IF YOU LIKE UNSOLVED MYSTERIES.................2001-01-30
STEPHEN MICHAUD AND HUGH AYNESWORTH TAKE A LOOK AT 50 MURDERS WHERE THERE IS EITHER A FUGITIVE AT LARGE OR THE KILLER IS UNKNOWN.THE WRITING STYLE BY THESE TWO PROS IS ALWAYS ENTERTAINING,AND AVOIDS THE CLINICAL STYLE USED IN ''TRUE DETECTIVE'' TYPE MAGAZINES. ALSO,THE CASES HEREIN ARE ALL OBSCURE,SO IT WILL BE NEW TO MOST READERS[BUT,THE CRIMES COVERED HERE ARE JUST AS SHOCKING AS MORE WELL KNOWN CRIMES,INCLUDING THAT OF MICHAUD & AYNESWORTH'S PREVIOUS NON-FICTION SUBJECT,TED BUNDY].THE BEST CASES ARE THE FIRST,''SUSPECT'',ABOUT A DOUBLE HOMICIDE IN COLORADO, AND ''THE FROG GIGGER'',INTERESTING BECAUSE OF THE UNIQUE MURDER WEAPON USED.THIS BOOK WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1991,AMONGST A GLUT OF SIMILAR TITLES CASHING IN ON THE ''AMERICAS MOST WANTED/UNSOLVED MYSTERIES'' T.V. SHOW'S SUCCESS,BUT THIS ONE IS THE BEST I'VE READ.
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Killer among us (Red badge detective)
Robert Lee Martin
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