The majority of serial murder studies support the consensus that serial murder is essentially an American crime--a flawed assumption, as the United States has existed for less than 250 years. What is far more likely is that the perverse urge to repeatedly and intentionally kill …
"For his first fifty-eight years, James Fallon was by all appearances a normal guy. A successful neuroscientist and professor, he'd been raised in a loving family, married his high school sweetheart, and had three kids and lots of friends. Then he learned a shocking truth that w…
A compelling career memoir by an award-winning neuroscientist describes how while studying his own family's brain scans for research he made the disturbing discovery that his own reflected a pattern he recognized from those in the brains of serial killers, a finding that offered…
A compelling career memoir by an award-winning neuroscientist describes how while studying his own family's brain scans for research he made the disturbing discovery that his own reflected a pattern he recognized from those in the brains of serial killers, a finding that offered…
'The last scan in the pile was strikingly odd. In fact it looked exactly like the most abnormal of the scans I had just been writing about, suggesting that the poor individual it belonged to was a psychopath'or at least shared an uncomfortable amount of traits with one ... When …
Overview: For his first fifty-eight years, James Fallon was by all appearances a normal guy. A successful neuroscientist and professor, he'd been raised in a loving family, married his high school sweetheart, and had three kids and lots of friends. Then he learned a shocking tru…
Despite standing as chief prosecution witness in the Moors Murders trial, David Smith was vilified by the public due to the accusations thrown at him by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady about his involvement in their crimes.
Offers a chilling account of the murderous career of Jane Toppan, a proper New England matron and seemingly devoted nurse who poisoned more than one hundred people during her tenure at a Massachusetts hospital in the 1890s.
When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was imprisoned at last. But the complex questions sparked by his ghastly crime spree -- the hows and whys of vicious juvenile…
When detectives respond to a crime scene in Orlando, Florida, during the "summer of hurricanes" in 2004, they find Charlie Brandt hanging from the rafters in the garage of Michelle Jones' home, his niece. Inside the house, they find a scene of horror that reminds them of other m…
When detectives respond to a crime scene in Orlando, Florida, during the ""summer of hurricanes"" in 2004, they find Charlie Brandt hanging from the rafters in the garage of Michelle Jones' home, his niece. Inside the house, they find a scene of horror that reminds them of other…
"This is the first book devoted to Aaron Kozminski, who was one of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department's top suspects for Jack the Ripper. The CID didn't have enough evidence to convict him, but Robert Anderson, head of the department, called his identity a "defini…
This is the first book devoted to Aaron Kozminski, who was one of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department's top suspects for Jack the Ripper. The CID didn't have enough evidence to convict him, but Robert Anderson, head of the department, called his identity a "definit…
An investigation into the man Scotland Yard thought (but couldn't prove) was Jack the Ripper. Dozens of theories have attempted to resolve the mystery of the identity of Jack the Ripper, the world's most famous serial killer. Ripperologist Robert House contends that we may have …
Overview: An investigation into the man Scotland Yard thought (but couldn't prove) was Jack the Ripper. Dozens of theories have attempted to resolve the mystery of the identity of Jack the Ripper, the world's most famous serial killer. Ripperologist Robert House contends that we…
