SPREE KILLERS

Paperback. No one knows what triggers it. Maybe it's a look. Maybe a word. But whatever it is, the result is the same: Charles Whitman climbed a tower on the campus of the University of Texas and fired randomly. Forty-six people were wounded, 16 died. Richard Speck went on a killing spree in Chicago, slaughtering 8 women, all of them nurses. In Camden, New Jersey, Howard Unruh cold-bloodedly shot down 13 people in 12 minutes. They are mass murderers, spree killers. If they escape the scene of the crime, they may never kill again. The man known as the Mad Butcher of Cleveland was never caught. After chopping a dozen victims to death, he disappeared. As far as anyone knows, he returned to a normal life as someone's next door neighbour. Unlike serial murderers like Ted Bundy, these killers claim lives indiscriminately, usually in one mad burst of violence. There's no way to hide from their insane acts, no place safe when the killing urge is triggered. Featuring 20 accounts. Illus. + Appendix. 472pp. p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. V. lightly browned pp. o/w Nr. F. with no creasing to covers.