Manhunters: Criminal Profilers and Their Search for the World?s Most Wanted Serial Killers

by Colin Wilson

Overview

Author Colin Wilson opens this illuminating psychological discussion with the development of the 1977 Behavioral Science Unit, which was set up in order to answer the many questions surrounding serial killers: How does someone become a serial killer? How do they choose their victims, and why do they not feel remorse? How are they caught? Wilson interviews FBI Special Agent Robert Ressler, coiner of the term “serial killer” and one of the pioneers of criminal profiling, as well as Ted Bundy and Charles Manson in order to figure out the motives behind their grisly actions.

In Manhunters, by tracking the BSU’s development of psychological profiling and genetic fingerprinting, Wilson reveals the forensic investigations that caused the seizure and arrest of some of the most vile and villainous people in the world, including Jeffrey Dahmer, William Heirens, Peter Sutcliffe, John Duffy, Jerry Brudos, Wayne Williams, and many more. As he divulges the details of each case, the murderers’ fantasy worlds, sadistic motives, and monstrous psychological tendencies emerge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781629142937
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	376
Sales rank:	63,812
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Colin Wilson has written more than one hundred books as well as hundreds of articles around the topics of philosophy, crime, and the occult. The Outsider is his most well-known title, and he is also the author of A Criminal History of Mankind, Encyclopedia of Murder, The Mammoth Book of True Crime, A Plague of Murder, and The Serial Killers.

Table of Contents

Introductions A Plague of Murder 9

Chapter 1 The Science of Prowling 15

Chapter 2 Fighting Monsters 27

Chapter 3 The Founding Father 39

Chapter 4 Fantasy Finds a Victim 55

Chapter 5 The Behavorial Science Unit 73

Chapter 6 Developing an Instinct 73

Chapter 7 The Worst Mass Murderer Yet 107

Chapter 8 The Egoists 129

Chapter 9 The Hillside Stranglers 151

Chapter 10 The Turning Point 169

Chapter 11 The Case That Awakened America 191

Chapter 12 The Most Evil? 213

Chapter 13 Slave 235

Chapter 14 The 1990s 259

Chapter 15 Sex Crimes-The Beginning 181

Chapter 16 Profiling Comes to Britain 299

Chapter 17 Murder in lonely Places 323

Epilogue: An End in Sight? 349

Index 357