Title : Serial Killers - Investigation into Serial Killers - Stéphane Bourgoin - Book

Summary :

A reference work, translated worldwide, this revised and expanded edition for the second time is the result of twenty years of research on these criminals who kill in series without any obvious motive, but most often under the influence of sexual urges; and who commit their crimes with complete impunity for months, even years. Stéphane Bourgoin was able to talk with more than forty of these serial killers in high-security prisons around the world. Cannibals, like Ottis Toole or the South African pedophile Stewart Wilken; psychotics, like Gary Heidnik, whose case inspired the character of Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs; or Richard Chase and James Riva, authentic modern vampires; female criminals, like Martha Beck or Christine Falling; child killers like John Joubert and Albert Fish; necrophiliacs and headhunters, like Gerard Schaefer and Ed Kemper, who serves as a model for Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter; stranglers of prostitutes in the style of Arthur Shawcross, all express the same bloody fantasies - and a total lack of remorse. Thanks to numerous stays abroad (United States, South Africa, Eastern Europe, etc.), the author was able to meet the FBI special agents responsible for studying these extraordinary assassins, as well as profilers from around the world who use a psychological approach and computer databases to solve investigations. Their conclusions are compared with the opinions of the greatest psychiatrists in the field. The work is completed by a bibliographic dictionary of serial killers which is the first of its kind.

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