TALKING WITH SERIAL KILLERS: Stalkers

Having exhaustively studied the case histories of more than 60 modern-day sexually motivated serial murderers, some still alive, others subsequently executed, the author zeros in on the Internet porn industry as one of the main motivating drivers in cultivating fantasy stalking which can lead to rape, multiple rapes, and homicide graduating to serial murder. Even more chillingly, anyone who is active on social media is a potential stalker's victim. This expert with over 25 years' experience has interviewed more than 30 of the most dangerous male and female serial killers of contemporary times for this latest in his bestselling series. The FBI has confirmed that the majority of sexual psychopaths gain most of their perverse thrills from the stalking of their unsuspecting victims, often in many different ways. For them, the actual kill is frequently something less after which the dead body is treated like rubbish and abandoned or thrown away, yet as these cases show, a victim has often been unwittingly followed, watched or even visited before they are attacked. 'Ted Bundy's signature is said to have been the bites he inflicted on his victims... some would tie ligatures with an unusual knot; a serial killer in India left beer cans next to victims, while in Greece, a killer stabbed each of four elderly prostitutes exactly four times in the neck; a serial murderer in Germany usually inflicted left-slated parallel stab wounds, which helped to link his victims. Between 1990 and 1991, three prostitutes were murdered in Texas. At autopsy, it became clear that their eyes had been skilfully removed.' This was done by the Dallas Ripper with a background in taxidermy and a long history of deception and fraud. Not well written but curiously fascinating. 301 page paperback.