Mass Murderers (True Crime Series) by Laura Foreman

Mass Murderers (True Crime Series) Reviews

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  Denise

  This collection was very interesting and talks in great detail about the most famous serial killers of modern time. Fascinating accounts from victims that survived the attacks and what police found when they struck.
  
  I found it interesting that these killers were so successful even when someone came to police and identified them as the attacker, they would be able to continue killing innocent people without being caught.
  
  Richard Speck was extremely interesting case to look at when he murdered 8 nursing students on the South side of Chicago. He showed no remorse and bragged about how much fun it had been to kill each woman. These accounts are chilling.
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  Andy

  Anyone with as much interest in the macabre as I have as probably read about these cases and many more in the past. Sometimes on a late night I've read about serial killers to the point that I feel a bit nervous about taking out the trash, or I cover a window that's usually not -- they're far more frightening than fiction. But this book is about spree killers, not serial killers. What this book offers that kept me interested was the more intimate portrait of what happened -- it really puts you there with details that I'd never known before.
  
  Throughout the book, between the main chapters it also has some short articles about lesser-known spree killers which I'd never heard of before, or forgotten existed. In this day and age, they've become so common-place, this book published in 1993 seems almost quaint somehow.
  
  The pictures in the book are sometimes gory, but not overly so. There were a lot of pictures connected with these crimes which I'd never seen before.
  
  This book is available to borrow for free on archive.org.
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  Aurora Dimitre

  Pretty interesting--the only ones of these that I'd heard of were Whitman and Speck, so it was interesting to read about some of these other guys, too. A little skimmable sometimes, because it did have some really small print, but the pictures were interesting and I did like the little section in the middle with a bunch of one-page featurettes, almost, of the guys that they didn't have as much on. An interesting one for sure.
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  Adrienne

  Filled with information and brimming with crime scene photos. I learned a lot about not only the crimes themselves, but the unfortunate victims felled in addition to the potential causes that led up to the murders horrifying debuts. Definitely a book that will keep you up at night reading (and checking to make sure the doors are locked before, during, and after!)
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  Jenny

  This came in a collection of books that I ordered thru a television offer. The book is great and filled with a lot of information that I didn't already know.
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  Katherine

  Very gory and interesting. Lots of pictures. I really enjoyed this whole Time Life series since I am fascinated by true crime.