Cannibal Serial Killers: Profiles of Depraved Flesh-Eating Murderers

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Simon and Schuster, May 10, 2011 - True Crime - 336 pages
Dive inside the twisted minds of some of the most heinous serial killers in history with this true-crime trove of stories about cannibalistic murderers.

Delving deep into the twisted actions of Hannibal Lecter–type murderers, Cannibal Serial Killers profiles the depraved individuals who prolong their horrific crimes beyond the thrill of the chase to a perverse ritualized finale. More than just stomach-churning stories, this terrifying book provides precise accounts and fascinating insights into the crimes of fourteen cannibalistic killers from all over the world, including:

ALBERT FISH, who spent nine days feasting on the remains of an innocent little girl

JEFFREY DAHMER, whose refrigerator was packed with the body parts of his seventeen victims

ANDREI CHIKATILO, who brutally slayed and dismembered fifty-three people in southeastern Russia

FRITZ HAARMANN, who drank his victims’ blood and sold their flesh on the black market

STANLEY BAKER, who cut out a young man’s heart and devoured it while it was still beating

JOACHIM KROLL, who cooked a stew of carrots, potatoes and a small child’s hand
 

Contents

Acknowledgments
9
Preface
11
Introduction
14
Chapter 1 A Brief History of Cannibalism Fact and Fiction
27
Chapter 2 Stanley Dean Baker Uncle Fingers
53
Chapter 3 Edward Ed Theodore Gein The Plainfield Butcher
69
Chapter 4 Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer Murder and Mutilation
112
Chapter 5 Hamilton Howard Albert Fish The Brooklyn Vampire
155
Chapter 7 Karl Denke No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
204
Chapter 8 Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Grossman The Butcher of Berlin
207
Chapter 9 Friedrich Fritz Heinrich Karl Haarmann The Vampire of Hanover
209
Chapter 10 Edmund EmilBig Ed Kemper III The Coed Killer
228
Chapter 11 David Harker The Darlington Cannibal
245
Chapter 12 Issei Sagawa Going Dutch
256
Chapter 13 Tracey Avril Wigginton and Lisa M Ptaschinski The Vampire Killers
265
Chapter 14 Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo The Rostov Ripper
283

Chapter 5 Peter Kürten The Vampire of Düsseldorf
175
Chapter 6J oachim Kroll Uncle Joachims Stew
194
About the Author
320
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Christopher Berry-Dee is the Editor of The New Criminologist and Director of the Criminology Research Centre. He has written numerous books on murderers and serial killers. He was also the research and interviewer for a 13-part TV series in the Uk entitled The Serial Killers.

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