Serial Killers of the '80s: Stories Behind a Decadent Decade of Death

by Jane Fritsch

Overview

The 1980s were a time of notorious serial killers—Jeffrey Dahmer, Aileen Wuornos, Samuel Little—but also of advances in forensics that helped lead to their capture.
The serial killer became part of our common cultural consciousness in the 1970s and, in the decade that followed, the FBI confronted even more incomprehensible crimes and their perpetrators. This engrossing collection of illustrated true-crime profiles details the unthinkable exploits of a rogue’s gallery that includes—in addition to Jeffrey Dahmer, Aileen Wuornos, and Gary Ridgway—Samuel Little and Joseph James DeAngelo, serial murderers whose criminal legacies are still making headlines today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781454941699
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	08/02/2022
Series:	Profiles in Crime , #5
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	21 MB
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About the Author

Jane Fritsch is a journalist who was a co-finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a reporter for TheNew York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune, where she covered the trial of the serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
 

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

1 Dorothea Puente 1

2 Gerald and Charlene Gallego 15

3 Robert Chritsian Hansen 29

4 Bobby Joe Long 45

5 Charles Ng and Leonard Lake 61

6 Richard Ramirez 75

7 Joseph James Deangelo 85

8 Aileen Wuornos 95

9 Arthur Shawcross 113

10 Dennis Rader 121

11 Jeffrey Dahmer 137

12 Earlf Leon Ridgway 153

13 Samuel Little 169

Epilogue: Female Serial Killers and Serial Killers on Death Row 177

Sources 193

Appendix 1 FBI Dossier on Jeffrey Dahmer 207

Appendix 2 Death Warrant for Bobby Joe Long 263

Appendix 3 Samuel Little's Drawings of his Unidentified Victims 275

Index 286

Image Credits 291

About the Author 292