Murderers, Madmen and Lunatics
Author: David Crowe
Publisher:
Published: 2015-06-16
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781941165751
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Crowe
Publisher:
Published: 2015-06-16
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781941165751
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stephen Moran
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2020-02-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781075223112
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A chapbook length collection of short stories by Stephen Moran. In these pages you will meet murderers, madmen, and lunatics. ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Author: Ronald M. Holmes
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780761920922
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This revised and updated edition of Murder in America presents a pragmatic examination of both common and unusual acts of homicide in the United States.
Author: Rodney Castleden
Publisher: Canary Press eBooks
Published: 2011-08-05
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 1907795863
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Infamous murderers, their deeds horrifying yet intriguing, have always inspired a strange fascination. Their crimes repulse us, yet the more heinous the act, the more we crave information, and ultimately we elevate the perpetrator to celebrity status. The names of the often random and completely innocent victims are not always so easily recalled. Murderers are remembered for many different reasons. Some have struck out and killed for revenge, some in an uncontrollable jealous rage. Others have planned the murder out of greed, or with money in mind. Some acted out of pure hatred and rage. One thing they all have in common - they just have the urge to kill. Contents: Ancient Murder Mysteries including King John, Edward II, Mary Queen of Scots Fatal Families including The Duc de Praslin, Lizzie Borden, Dr Crippen, Ruth Ellis Political Assassinations including Brutus and Cassius, John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald Murder for Profit including Dick Turpin, Francois Courvoisier, James Hanratty, Jermey Bamber also including Poisonous Women, Madmen, Child Victims, Lady Killers, Bodies in Boxes
Author: John Skipp
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
Published: 2012-09-25
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9781579129149
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of thirty-eight terrifying tales of serial killers at large, written by the great masters of the genre, plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder, gruesomely and methodically, over and over again. From Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs) to Patrick Bateman (American Psycho), stories of serial killers and psychos loom large and menacing in our collective psyche. Tales of their grisly conquests have kept us cowering under the covers, but still turning the pages. Psychos is the first book to collect in a single volume the scariest and most well-crafted fictional works about these deranged killers. Some of the stories are classics, the best that the genre has to offer, by renowned writers such as Neil Gaiman, Amelia Beamer, Robert Bloch, and Thomas Harris. Other selections are from the latest and most promising crop of new authors. John Skipp, who is also the editor of Zombies, Demons and Werewolves and Shapeshifters, provides fascinating insight, through two nonfiction essays, into our insatiable obsession with serial killers and how these madmen are portrayed in popular culture. Resources at the end of the book includes lists of the genre's best long-form fiction, movies, websites, and writers.
Author: NEil Gaiman
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780316463393
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christopher Berry-Dee
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Published: 2024-01-04
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 178946692X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The plea of insanity in criminal cases can be traced back at least to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, which dates from 1755-1759 BC. It is a complicated defence, and its origins in modern law lie with what are called the 'M'Naghten Rules' of 1843, formulated by British judges as a jury instruction in cases where a plea of insanity had been entered. Daniel M'Naghten shot and killed one Edward Drummond, believing him to be the British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, and was acquitted on the grounds of insanity, and the M'Naghten Rules still exert considerable influence over defences today. Clearly a plea of insanity in murder cases is of critical importance when the death penalty is still applied, and even today it may still be the difference between a life sentence in a high-security prison, or an indeterminate one in a secure psychiatric hospital. Meanwhile, 27 of the USA's 50 states have retained or readopted the death penalty, and at least 54 other countries, including China, Russia, India, Iran and Saudi Arabia, also retain it. Naturally, a criminal who was liable to swing for murder could, and sometimes did, make every attempt to appear insane, and this book examines some of these cases, as well as trials in which the accused was indeed judged to be insane. The failure rate is high; of seven American serial killers who deployed the defence in their trials, only two were successful, ending their days in secure psychiatric facilities; two were executed, and the other three either died or were killed while serving full-life sentences, or are still in gaol.
Author: Norman Spinrad
Publisher: Gateway
Published: 2011-09-29
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 0575117206
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Great Tyrant rules the solar system with absolute terror. Only one man dares to fight back. The time is the 24th century. Humankind populates the entire solar system from icy Pluto to boiling Mercury. Great domed cities, humming factories, hordes of workers, all feed the power of the dictatorship that controls all life. Only a small group among the cowed population dares rebel in a struggle that pits democracy against tyranny. But there is a third force at work as well. A mysterious band of assassins whose final solution to the problem of humanity's fate is as terrifying as it is irresistible - one of them is known as the AGENT OF CHAOS.
Author: Cesare Lombroso
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006-07-06
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780822337232
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new translation of Lombroso's L'Homme Delinquente, with a new scholarly introduction.