
Brenda R. (
nurse) wrote on 11/18/2007...
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
A good book that gives much information about profiling serial killers. It also gives insight to many serial killers that are well known such as Ted Bundy,Jeffery Dahmer,Charles Manson,Edmund Kemper,John Wayne Gacy,John Joubert and Gerald Schaefer. Robert Ressler worked tracking serial killers for the FBI.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
There are points early in the book where I felt he was almost bragging too much - but all the other famous profilers mention him as the one they learned from - and the original writing was a few years ago. A DEFINITE recommendation for those interested in the development of modern day profiling and origins of what is just "accepted truth" now - things that were theories and ideas back then! VERY GOOD choice for those interested in true crime!
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The FBI agent who claims to have coined the term serial killer recounts his interviews with some of the most notorious of them including Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy.

Jena B. (
gna2772) wrote on 9/28/2005...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is the 1st book I read about such a subject. This book honestly turned me on to reading on the subjects of serial killers & death. I would recomend this as good reading for anyone who is fascinated about the darker side of the world we live in.