The Serial Killers: A Study In The Psychology Of Violence - Plot & Excerpts
This recognition came about, it seems, through analysis of the steep rise in sex crime and ‘motiveless murder’. Ever since the 1960s, ‘multiple murder’ had been on the increase. The ‘Manson Family’ had killed at least nine people. Vaughn Greenwood, the ‘Skidrow Slasher’ of Los Angeles, killed nine homeless vagrants. Necrophile Ed Kemper killed ten, including his grandparents and mother. Paranoid schizophrenic Herb Mullin killed thirteen. Dean Corll, the homosexual murderer of Houston, Texas, killed twenty-seven boys. John Wayne Gacy of Chicago admitted to killing thirty-two boys. Patrick Kearney, the ‘Trash Bag Murderer’ of Los Angeles, killed twenty-eight men. William Bonin, the ‘Freeway Killer’, killed a minimum of twenty-two young men. The ‘Hillside Stranglers’, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, raped and killed a dozen girls. Ted Bundy killed twenty-three. Randall Woodfield, the ‘I.5 Killer’, murdered forty-four. The South American sex killer Pedro Lopez, ‘the Monster of the Andes’, admitted to killing three hundred and sixty pre-pubescent girls.
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