American Serial Killers: The Deadliest Years 1950-2000 [Paperback] Vronsky, P...

Description: Product Description Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the American "Golden Age" (1950-2000). With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers and Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky has established himself as the foremost expert on the history of serial killers. In this first definitive history of the "Golden Age" of American serial murder, when the number and body count of serial killers exploded, Vronsky tells the stories of the most unusual and prominent serial killings from the 1950s to the early twenty-first century. From Ted Bundy to the Golden State Killer, our fascination with these classic serial killers seems to grow by the day. American Serial Killers gives true crime junkies what they crave, with both perennial favorites (Ed Kemper, Jeffrey Dahmer) and lesser-known cases (Melvin Rees, Harvey Glatman). Review Praise for American Serial Killers “[A] gripping survey of 20th century serial killers...Smooth prose helps keep the pages turning. True crime fans with strong stomachs will want to check this one out.”—Publishers Weekly “Renowned true crime author Vronksy has composed an exhaustive history of these epidemic years, recounting the atrocities of heavy-hitters like Ted Bundy and introducing readers to more obscure murderers like Melvin Rees. . .Thoroughly researched and highly detailed, Vronsky’s analysis of the “golden age” of serial killers is an essential true crime reference work.”—Booklist About the Author Peter Vronsky, PhD, is an investigative historian and a former film and television documentary producer. He is the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters; Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters; and Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present. He is an authority on Canada’s first modern battle, which he has written about in his definitive book, Ridgeway: The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada. Peter Vronsky holds a PhD from the University of Toronto in the fields of criminal justice history and the history of espionage in international relations. He teaches history at Ryerson University in Toronto. He divides his time between Toronto, Canada, and Venice, Italy. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1 Sons of Cain: A Brief History of Serial Murder from the Stone Age to 1930 I am sorry that I am unable to murder the whole damned human race. Carl Panzram, serial killer Serial killers have existed since the beginning of humankind, except we did not call them that. Before civilization, humans were an animalistic, murderous, cannibalistic species, driven by a set of instinctual behaviors necessary to survival for hundreds of thousands of years; perhaps for as long as over a million years, depending on how one defines a "human."1 There were at least two distinct species of humans cohabiting the European continent as late as forty thousand years ago: Homo sapiens and Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis). Then, in a short span of five thousand years, the Neanderthals suddenly vanished, most likely in a genocidal war of extermination and conquest waged by Homo sapiens in which we wantonly slaughtered the Neanderthal males and raped their women.2 One explanation for our success in the slaughter is that Homo sapiens developed inhibitions against aggression toward members of our own species while the Neanderthals did not.3 There is archaeolocigal evidence that Neanderthals killed one another and cannibalized one another at a higher rate than Homo sapiens did, and in the war between the two species, that gave us the advantage, despite the fact that Neanderthals were physically more powerful and as capable as we were in fashioning stone tools and weapons.4 One scholar, the biblical historian Robert Eisler, argued that humans were at one time a docile vegetarian species, but that the onset of the last Ice Age reduced t

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