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Criminoloogist Robin Odell has compiled this gruesome gallery of cases from all over the world, revealing the growth in serial slayings, contract killings and middle-class murders and investigating what motivates people to commit the ultimate crime. As well as gangsters and ordinary felons, the book includes doctors, millionaries, housewives, children, lawyers, accountants, officers and gentlemen who have succumbed to the killing instinct. Behind the sensational names concocted by the tabloid press - 'Boston Strangler', 'Dracula Killer', 'Night Stalker', 'Granny Killer' - lurk real murderers

Introduction -- Cultural development of monsters, demons, and evil -- Psychopathology and biogenics of serial murderers -- Social construction of serial murder -- Sexual predators, criminal paraphilia, and murder -- Healthcare killers -- The male serial murderer -- Team killers -- The female serial murderer -- Victims of serial murder -- Serial murder: a global perspective -- Responding to serial murderers