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For fans of true crime, this fourth entry in the Profiles in Crime series presents history's most elite serial killersmaster murderers who stretched the psychic envelope and racked up the largest number of victims. Historical in scope and international in breadth, this collection of true-crime stories chronicles 15 of the most infamous extreme killers who ever livedthose with the largest number of confirmed kills, in many cases more than 50. The subjects range from 15th-century French child killer Gilles de Rais, purportedly the model for the folk legend of Bluebeard, to Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Toole, who inspired the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer; to Samuel Little, America's most prolific serial killer with 60 confirmed and 93 claimed murdered, to Mikhail Popkov, dubbed The Werewolf by Russian media for having slain more than 70 women between 1992 and 2010.

Extreme Killers

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      Publisher Union Square & Co.
      Published 6 October 2020
      ISBN-13 9781454939405
      978-1454939405
      ISBN-10 1454939400
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      True crime

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      Book Synopsis
      For fans of true crime, this fourth entry in the Profiles in Crime series presents history's most elite serial killersmaster murderers who stretched the psychic envelope and racked up the largest number of victims. Historical in scope and international in breadth, this collection of true-crime stories chronicles 15 of the most infamous extreme killers who ever livedthose with the largest number of confirmed kills, in many cases more than 50. The subjects range from 15th-century French child killer Gilles de Rais, purportedly the model for the folk legend of Bluebeard, to Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Toole, who inspired the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer; to Samuel Little, America's most prolific serial killer with 60 confirmed and 93 claimed murdered, to Mikhail Popkov, dubbed The Werewolf by Russian media for having slain more than 70 women between 1992 and 2010.

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