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Serial killers of the '70s : behind a notorious decade of death / Jane Fritsch.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Profiles in crime seriesPublisher: New York : Sterling, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: xii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1454939389
  • 9781454939382
Other title:
  • Serial killers of the 1970s
  • Serial killers of the nineteen seventies
  • Serial killers of the '70s : stories behind a notorious decade of death
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Contents:
Introduction -- Juan Corona -- Dean Allen Corll, Elmer Wayne Henley, and David Owen Brooks -- Rodney Alcala -- Edmund Kemper -- David Berkowitz -- Ted Bundy -- Vaughn Greenwood -- Herbert Mullin -- The Zebra killers -- Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono -- Patrick Wayne Kearney -- Coral Eugene Watts -- William Bonin -- John Wayne Gacy -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Excerpt from People v. Superior Court (Corona), 30 Cal.3d 193, November 16, 1981 -- Appendix 2. Excerpt from Rodney Alcala's appeal before the United States Court of Appeals, argued February 6, 2003 -- Appendix 3. Excerpt from John Wayne Gacy's appeal in the United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, argued March 4, 1993.
Summary: The Co-Ed Killer, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, and Dating Game Killer--in many ways, terrifying serial killers helped define the 1970s. These fascinating profiles present notorious as well as lesser-known murderers of that decade. Beyond Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz, it includes such perpetrators as Coral Eugene Watts, "The Sunday Morning Slasher," who killed 80 women; Edmund Kemper, the "Co-Ed Killer"; and Rodney Alcala, believed to have killed as many as 130 people.Summary: To many, the legacy of the 1970s is disco, Watergate and the oil crisis. But in many ways, terrifying serial killers helped define the 1970s. Fritsch provides profiles of notorious as well as lesser-known murderers of that decade. -- adapted from back cover
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 364.1523 F919 Checked out 06/06/2024 33111010404925
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From Ted Bundy to John Wayne Gacy and David Berkowitz, the 1970s were a time of notorious and brutal serial killers. Find out more about them, along with some you may never have heard of.



The Co-Ed Killer, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, and Dating Game Killer--in many ways, terrifying serial killers were as synonymous with the 1970s as Watergate, disco, and the oil crisis. This fascinating collection of profiles presents the most notorious as well as lesser-known serial murderers of that decade. Beyond Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz, it includes more obscure killers like Coral Eugene Watts, known as "The Sunday Morning Slasher," who killed 80 women; Edmund Kemper, the "Co-Ed Killer"; and Rodney Alcala, who is believed to have killed between 50 and 130 people between 1971-1979.



Profiles will include :

Rodney Alcala: The Dating Game Killer

David Berkowitz: The Son of Sam

Kenneth A. Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr: The Hillside Strangler

Ted Bundy

John Wayne Gacy: The Killer Clown

Coral Eugene Watts: The Sunday Morning Slasher

Vaughn Greenwood: The Skid Row Slasher

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-256) and index.

Introduction -- Juan Corona -- Dean Allen Corll, Elmer Wayne Henley, and David Owen Brooks -- Rodney Alcala -- Edmund Kemper -- David Berkowitz -- Ted Bundy -- Vaughn Greenwood -- Herbert Mullin -- The Zebra killers -- Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono -- Patrick Wayne Kearney -- Coral Eugene Watts -- William Bonin -- John Wayne Gacy -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Excerpt from People v. Superior Court (Corona), 30 Cal.3d 193, November 16, 1981 -- Appendix 2. Excerpt from Rodney Alcala's appeal before the United States Court of Appeals, argued February 6, 2003 -- Appendix 3. Excerpt from John Wayne Gacy's appeal in the United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, argued March 4, 1993.

The Co-Ed Killer, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, and Dating Game Killer--in many ways, terrifying serial killers helped define the 1970s. These fascinating profiles present notorious as well as lesser-known murderers of that decade. Beyond Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz, it includes such perpetrators as Coral Eugene Watts, "The Sunday Morning Slasher," who killed 80 women; Edmund Kemper, the "Co-Ed Killer"; and Rodney Alcala, believed to have killed as many as 130 people.

To many, the legacy of the 1970s is disco, Watergate and the oil crisis. But in many ways, terrifying serial killers helped define the 1970s. Fritsch provides profiles of notorious as well as lesser-known murderers of that decade. -- adapted from back cover

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