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u/TwentyEightyFour · 9 pointsr/tipofmytongue

Is This it?

It's probably not these, but perhaps you'll find them interesting:

Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters

Serial Killers and Mass Murderers: Profiles of the World's Most Barbaric Criminals

Edit: UnicornScarf beat me to the punch! s/he replied while I was still compiling my response!

u/JustinJSrisuk · 3 pointsr/serialkillers

My reading recommendations include, mainly, a lot of textbooks! Unlike a lot of the true crime novels, I've found that criminal psychology, criminology, victimology, forensics and other academic textbooks and research journals are generally far less sensationalistic than the true crime novels tend to be. Here are some of the ones that I highly recommend. As a side note: they may be textbooks, but they are all highly readable while being incredibly fascinating and enlightening.

Serial Murderers and Their Victims by Eric W Hinkley is a fantastic resource for the latest studies concerning serial murder, focusing on both the perpetrators and the fantasies and compulsions that contribute to their drive to murder, as well as on their victims. Now in its seventh iteration, this text has some of the most up to date statistics on serial killers in the US and worldwide. It's a must-read for anyone interested in serial killers.

Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters by Peter Vronsky is another similarly great book full of real life case studies of serial and spree killers and delves into the motives behind such aberrant behavior.

The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Michael Newton has entries on hundreds of convicted serial killers.

Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters by Peter Vronsky explores the rare phenomenon of female serial killers.

Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives by Ressler, Burgess and Douglas is an important and easily-read psychological textbook on the sexual impulses that lead to violence.

Sexual Murder: Catathymic and Compulsive Homicides by Louis B Schlesinger is a similar book by a prominent forensic psychologist.

Sex-Related Homicide and Death Investigation: Practical and Clinical Perspectives, Second Edition: Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations by Vernon J Geberth is a manual for law enforcement professionals investigating sexually-motivated homicides by a renowned former-detective. The images and case studies are directly from the author's archive of case files. I will warn readers that some of the content in this book is highly disturbing, even for I, a person with an interest in the psychology of serial killers. All in all, a fascinating book for those who can stomach it.

u/thatsoundsboring · 3 pointsr/funny

Ted is still pretty scary but yah there are others that are scarier. I really liked this BOOK if you wanna hear about some others. I find the scariest ones are the ones whom you could be a victim to and I think that’s why bundy scares people...who wouldn’t help a normal looking guy in a public place carry something when he has a broken arm. My favourite quote from this book ‘better to be thought of as rude than to have the police sampling seminal fluid from your cold dead rectum’ 😳

u/EternalRocksBeneath · 2 pointsr/booksuggestions

Ooh, I LOVE The Stranger Beside Me. :D Give this one a go; it's absolutely wonderful (in a horrific kind of way.) It's very informative, and the writer has a really dry and kind of terrible sense of humour that manifests itself once in a while.

u/Awkwaaaard · 2 pointsr/books

You will read a book in a day/two days I'm telling you. It's too interesting and fucked up and true to put down.

Absolutely -

The Last Victim by Jason Moss This dude corresponds with Gacy (this is all true) it is definitely something to read, quite disturbing.

Gift of Fear by Gaven de Becker This due has worked with John Douglas. We read his book GoF along side Douglas'

Serial Killers and Mass Murderers by Nigel Cawthorne

Charles Manson's Autobiography Now I read this in 8th grade --- way too old for a 12 year old [young for my grade] um - I'm not positive this is what I read. Only because when I read it I had found it in the library in a dark corner and it was a solid red hardcover that just said "Charles Manson Autobiography" but I couldn't find anything else so I'm assuming this is it. It should be written from his perspective if it's the right one. (A lot of sex too)

Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters

yes, I have read all of these. And in searching for links for you I found that John Douglas released a book I had not read yet about internet crimes. Interesting, especially because the serial killer roaming around on Long Island, well the first four girls identified were Craigs List prostitutes. Anyway there's a couple more books I want to recommend but I have to check my bookcase (all the names start to blur after a while..)

u/myleftsockisadragon · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

There are many serial killers that are incredibly interesting, but my two favorite definetly have t be H.H. Holmes (credit to /u/Dr_Helicopter for posting the name first) and Elizabeth Báthory.

H.H. Holmes opened a hotel during the Chicago World Fair with the sole purpose of murdering it's inhabitants. It had a labyrinth of twisting halls and doors that went nowhere, its guests often ended up starving or being gassed to death. He would then sell their bodies to medical schools, which was a relatively common and unquestioned practice at the time.

Elizabeth Báthory of Transylvania was a female serial killer from the 1500's. Although not the very first, she was one of the first recorded serial murderers, and killed hundreds of young women before she died at the age of 54. Legend says that she bathed in the blood of her victims, as she thought it would bring a youthful appearance to her skin. However, this might have just been witness accounts saying that after she had finished torturing her victims she was so covered in gore that it appeared as though she had bathed in their blood. She has a pretty cool story, I can go into more detail if anyone is interested.

An extra just for fun: Ed Gein's story is more sad than brutal...he was considered a generally really nice guy, but had the unfortunate hobby of collecting body parts. Usually he would dig up dead bodies for this habit, but when the ground became too cold to dig, he turned to killing. He only has a death count of two people (Mary Hogan and Bernice Worden), but when he was apprehended he had:

  • Whole human bones and fragments
  • A wastebasket made of human skin
  • Human skin covering several chair seats
  • Skulls on his bedposts
  • Female skulls, some with the tops sawn off
  • Bowls made from human skulls
  • A corset made from a female torso skinned from shoulders to waist
  • Leggings made from human leg skin
  • Masks made from the skin from female heads
  • Mary Hogan's face mask in a paper bag
  • Mary Hogan's skull in a box
  • Bernice Worden's entire head in a burlap sack
  • Bernice Worden's heart in a saucepan on the stove
  • Nine vulvae in a shoe box
  • A young girl's dress and "the vulvas of two females judged to have been about fifteen years old"
  • A belt made from female human nipples
  • Four noses
  • A pair of lips on a window shade drawstring
  • A lampshade made from the skin of a human face
  • Fingernails from female fingers

    Pretty cool, huh?

    Edit: If you're interested in serial killers, I would suggest picking up a copy of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters and Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters both by Peter Vronsky. He's a good writer, and they're both fabulously interesting. :)
u/yoboyjohnny · 1 pointr/self

So I'm a little late for this, OP. I will say none of this is your fault. Your son is, far as I can tell, a textbook psychopath. You didn't make him that way.

Now, I'm not going to suggest your son is anywhere near on the level of the people I'm about to mention, but he shares certain characteristics that are telling. Namely the inability to separate fantasy from lived experience, a complete disregard for consequences, and a sexual obsession with dominance and control.

I recently read this. That, on top of my general interest in...how do I put this? "Abnormal people", has given me more knowledge about the darker habits of certain individuals then I ever wanted or needed. A recurring theme in the lives of serial killers is a fetishistic obsession with violence and control. The rape fantasies, the weird incest shit, the obsession with young girls, all that comes from the same place. Somewhere along the line your son started to associate sex with domination rather than something loving. He probably enjoys things like stealing underwear or taking pictures of underage girls and shit more because he knows it's wrong then because he doesn't. It's possible he gets off on flouting societal standards and spitting in the face of good taste.

Usually this sort of behavior (keep in mind however I'm not a shrink, so don't take my word for it) has its roots in a deep, profound, insecurity on the part of the individual. For example serial killer Andrei Chikatilo blamed his murders on his inability to get an erection with women. Ed Kemper thought the living would never love him, so he figured the only way he could get laid was to kill somebody.

There's a lot of factors that go into making a psychopath. Some of it genetics, some of it is environment. In your case your son stumbled into an environment on the internet where hatred, violence, and abuse were conflated with something positive.

I don't know what could help in your situation. I'm tempted to say you should cut this guy off entirely, but if he's living with somebody he met on one of these forums that's a recipe for him getting involved in some seriously sick shit. Your son, again, seems to be some manner of psychopath. Lack of empathy or remorse, manipulative behavior, extreme internal fantasy life, disregard for social norms, etc etc. Those are all markers of that shit. He needs help. And not a therapist, not even a psychiatrist. Somebody who's experienced in dealing with people who are like this. I'm not saying this because you should be in his life (indeed, keep him the fuck away from your family), I'm saying this because this is obviously a disturbed individual and for the rest of the world's sake he needs a check on his worst impulses.

u/ElfinPrincessMarlene · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

I love learning about serial killers and murders. My sister got me this book. I really enjoyed reading it. I went to UC Santa Cruz where the Santa Cruz Coed Killer, Edmund Kemper, murdered some girls from UCSC. I even asked a professor who was teaching during that time in Santa Cruz and he told me he wasn't worried about being murder that he was more likely to die on highway 17. I even visited the bar where he would hang out at and talk to the police. It was right next to this place that sold good pupusas. I even found his house. I never went to the place where he used to live, but it was all interesting. I always watch documentaries and read books on serial killers. You should read my friend Dahmer. I haven't read it, but I want to. They recently turned it into a movie.