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Intensity is a 1995 horror novel by American author Dean Koontz.. The plot follows college student Chynna Shepherd who is forced to fight for her life when targeted by serial killer Edgler Vess, with chapters alternating between each character's perspective.
The recurring characteristic serial killers share, Morrison contends, is the emotional age of an infant. Serial killers lack a coherent personality and are missing large parts of their humanity. They are generally charismatic and able to fit in by learning to behave as normal people do, while lacking the empathy most normal people possess.
The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer (1999) is a non-fiction work by author Jason Moss, co-authored with counseling professor Jeffrey Kottler, in which he details his fascination and subsequent correspondence with several notorious American serial killers.
Novels about serial killers, persons who murder two or more people, with the killings taking place over a significant period of time. The serial killers' psychological gratification is the motivation for the killings, and many serial murders involve sexual contact with the victims at different points during the murder process.
He expanded his ideas into a book, The Mystery of Jack the Ripper, in 1929. The book was marketed as a serious study, but it contains obvious factual errors and the documents it supposedly uses as references have never been found. [10] It inspired other works such as the theatre play Murder Most Foul and the film Jack the Ripper. [11]
Mastermind: Think Like a Killer promises to show Burgess studies both the psyche of the attacker and the impact on their victims, “putting two halves of the same story together to catch a killer
The United States has the most documented serial killers in the world, with a total of 3,690 surpassing the combined count of the next 10 highest countries, according to a study by World ...
The Good Nurse chronicles the murders of American serial killer Charles Cullen during his sixteen-year nursing career working in the New Jersey and Pennsylvania medical systems before being arrested in 2003. Nearly ten years in the making, the book outlines murder, friendship, and betrayal based on police records, interviews, wiretaps, and ...