SERIAL THRILL KILLERS

Paperback. Seven women, widows and spinsters ranging in age from 60 to 89, died in a vicious rape-murder spree blamed on a single killer: the Stocking Strangler. A North Philadelphia apartment was turned into a macabre rubbish-filled charnel-house that was littered with rotting corpses. A 42yr. old serial sex slayer was found guilty of murder, necrophilia and cannibalism and sentenced to 3 life terms in prison. The victims are almost always strangers: the weak, the downtrodden, the misfits of society. The murderers, serial killers, are the sportsmen of the criminal world: some kill for pleasure, some for vengeance. The dark motives and the strange satisfaction these psychopaths experience are explored here in 10 true cases that yield a shocking and disturbing portrait of the mass murderer. Includes amongst others : Suzan and James C. Carson, Carroll Edward Cole, Rudy Bladel, Carlton Gary, William Henry Hance, Margie Velma Barfield, Elmer Wayner Henley Jr., David Brooks, Dean Coril, Wayne Clifford Boden etc. Illus. 288pp. mass market p/back. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned pp., sl. shelfwear o/w Vg. with no creasing to covers.