Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters

Blurb

Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters is a non-fiction true crime history by Peter Vronsky, a criminal justice historian. It surveys the history of serial homicide, its culture, psychopathology and its investigation from the Roman Empire to the early 2000s. The book describes the rise of serial murder from its first early recorded instances in ancient Rome to medieval and Renaissance Europe, Victorian Britain and its rise and escalation in the United States and the world in the postmodern era. Peter Vronsky surveys a range of theoretical approaches to serial killers interspersed with dozens of detailed case studies of both notorious and lesser know serial murderers illustrating the theory in practice. Considered by some a definitive history of serial homicide, it was the book that serial killer Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer, was reading when he was arrested in 2005.