In February of 1897, a family of six -- four generations, including twin infant sons and their aged great-grandmother -- was brutally murdered in rural North Dakota. The weapons used were a shotgun, an axe, a pitchfork, a spade, and a club. Several Dakota Indians from the nearby…
On November 8, 1985, 18-year-old Tom Odle brutally murdered his parents and three siblings in the small southern Illinois town of Mount Vernon, sending shockwaves throughout the nation. The murder of the Odle family remains one of the most horrific family mass murders in U.S. hi…
The Montreal Massacre: A Story of Membership Categorization Analysis adopts an ethnomethodological viewpoint to analyze how the murder of women by a lone gunman at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal was presented to the public via media publication over a two-week period in 198…
Lee Mellor has gathered Canada's 45 most lethal mass and spree killers into a single work. Rampage details their grisly crimes, delves into their twisted psyches, and dissects their motivations to answer the question every true crime lover yearns to know: why?
Lee Mellor has gathered Canada's 45 most lethal mass and spree killers into a single work. Rampage details their grisly crimes, delves into their twisted psyches, and dissects their motivations to answer the question every true crime lover yearns to know : why?
Profiles more than twenty-five of Canada's most lethal mass and spree killers.
Lee Mellor has gathered Canada's 45 most lethal mass and spree killers into a single work. Rampage details their grisly crimes, delves into their twisted psyches, and dissects their motivations to answer the question every true crime lover yearns to know: why?
A Canadian psychiatric nurse recounts his dealings with the imprisoned Charles Manson's confidants on the outside, his telephone conversations with the convicted murderer, and their meeting, and offers Manson's own writings and art.
A Canadian psychiatric nurse recounts his dealings with the imprisoned Charles Manson's confidants on the outside, his telephone conversations with the convicted murderer, and their meeting, and offers Manson's own writings and art.
"The twentieth century was among the bloodiest in the history of humanity. Untold millions were slaughtered. How people are enrolled in the service of evil is a question that continues to bedevil. In this trenchant book, Abram de Swaan offers a taxonomy of mass violence that foc…
