The Serial Killer Next Door

The Double Lives of Notorious Murderers

Richard Estep (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2023
Visible Ink Press (Verlag)
978-1-57859-768-0 (ISBN)

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How
well do you know your neighbors? Maybe you should get to know them
better! Growing up, we are taught that monsters are easy to identify,
but the truth is very different. Too often, the serial murderer does
not stand out. Otherwise, he, or she, would get caught.

The
contrast between the ordinary-seeming lives that provided cover for
their cruel secrets is exposed in The
Serial Killer Next Door: The Double Lives of Notorious Murderers.
To their coworkers, neighbors, and others who knew them, they led
unremarkable lives. They had careers as military pilots, police
officers, landscapers, small business owners, farmers, realtors,
reporters, authors, veterinary technicians, nurses, doctors,
handymen, painters, and chefs, while they simultaneously stalked city
suburbs, college campuses, trailer parks, and red-light districts.
This chilling book looks at the horrifying stories of nearly 30
malevolent killers (and hundreds of innocent victims) who were
mistakenly trusted, including ...

Genene
Jones,
a nurse responsible for the murder of 60 infants and children in her
care. She's said to be the inspiration for Stephen King's iconic
character of Annie Wilkes, in Misery
- and her nephew broke into King's home, threatening to blow up
the writer and his family because of it!

Robert
Lee Yates,
a helicopter pilot in the Army National Guard who, when caught,
buried one body outside his bedroom window as his wife slept.

Gary
Ridgway,
also known as the Green River Killer, went undetected for 20 years,
working for 30 years as a painter for a truck company and married
for 17 years.

Kathleen
Folbigg,
whose three children were at first thought to have died from natural
causes. She only got caught when her husband found her personal
diary.

Joseph
James DeAngelo,
who worked various jobs, including as a police officer and a truck
mechanic. He went on a decades-long crime spree and was finally
caught with the help of DNA evidence. His case was instrumental in
the establishment of California's DNA database.

And
dozens of other serial killers!

It's
chilling to realize that many serial killers have created second
lives that are completely divorced from the brutality and evils they
commit. It's incomprehensible to think that they are
able to flip a switch, transforming them from apparently loving,
ordinary men and women into torturous, homicidal slaughterers. With
more than 120 photos and graphics, The
Serial Killer Next Door
is richly illustrated. Its helpful bibliography and extensive index
add to its usefulness. We trust our neighbors, coworkers, and
acquaintances. Of course, we do. It's ominous to think that we can't!

Richard Estep is the author of more than twenty books, including Visible Ink Press' Serial Killers: The Minds, Methods, and Mayhem of History's Most Notorious Murderers and The Handy Armed Forces Answer Book. Additionally, he's written numerous paranormal nonfiction titles, including The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm: Unraveling the History & Hauntings of a Serial Killer's Home. He is a regular columnist for Haunted Magazine and has also written for the Journal of Emergency Medical Services and appears regularly on TV shows such as Haunted Hospitals. He has had a lifelong fascination for true crime, the military, and ghosts. British by birth, Richard now makes his home in Colorado a few miles north of Denver, where he serves as a paramedic and lives with his wife and a menagerie of adopted animals.

About
the Author

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

1.
Ronald Dominique

2.
Jack Unterweger

3.
Mikhail Popkov

4.
Gerard Schaefer

5.
Levi Bellfield

6.
Joseph James DeAngelo

7.
Russell Williams

8.
Robert Lee Yates

9.
Vickie Dawn Jackson

10.
Michael Swango

11.
Genene Jones

12.
Elizabeth Wettlaufer

13.
Bruce McArthur

14.
Robert Pickton

15.
Israel Keyes

16.
Gary Ridgway

17.
Paul Bernardo and Karen Homolka

18.
Todd Kohlhepp

19.
Stephen Port

20.
Robert Berdella

21.
John Norman Collins

22.
Joanna Dennehy

23.
Kathleen Folbigg

24.
Pedro Lopez

25.
Robert Maudsley

26.
The Snowtown Killers

Further
Reading

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.01.2023
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Canton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
ISBN-10	1-57859-768-4 / 1578597684
ISBN-13	978-1-57859-768-0 / 9781578597680
Zustand	Neuware