TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vronsky,Peter
TI  - American serial killers: the deadliest years 1950-2000 
SN  - 9780593198957
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Berkley
KW  - Serial murders
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Serial murderers
KW  - True crime stories
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical reference (pages [387]-398) and index; Preface: An arrest in Milwaukee -- Introduction: The "golden age" of serial murders -- Sons of Cain: a brief history of serial murder from the stone age to 1930 -- American monstrum: the rise of sexual signature killers 1930-1945 -- American noir: raising Cain through the trauma years 1930-1950 -- Pulp true horror: the rise of the new serial killers 1950-1969 -- The big surge: the baby boom serial killers come of age 1970-1979 -- Mindhunters: the serial killer epidemic 1980-1990 -- The last serial killers: twilight of the epidemic era 1990-2000 -- Epilogue: The post-epidemic era 2000-2020
N2  - "Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the so-called "surge" or epidemic years of serial murder. 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 worst decades of American serial murder, when the number and body count of serial killers exploded, Vronsky tells the stories of the most notable and unusual 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 many fascinating lesser-known killers such as Melvin Rees, Harvey Glatman and Danny Rolling"--
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