The Man with Candy

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439128707
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis The Man with Candy by : Jack Olsen

Download or read book The Man with Candy written by Jack Olsen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mass murder of almost thirty young boys in Houston may well have been the most heinous crime of the century. How could such a series of murders go undetected for almost three years before being exposed? The Man with the Candy is a brilliant investigative journalist’s story of the crime and the answer to that question. The night David Hilligiest didn't come home was both like and unlike other nights when other Houston boys disappeared between the years 1971 and 1973. At three in the morning the police were called, but they just said that boys were running away from the best of homes nowadays and that they'd list David as a runaway. No, there would be no official search for the youngster. Aghast, the Hilligiests, in the months that followed, hired their own detective, put up posters, even sought the aid of clairvoyants. But David never did come home again because, along with at least twenty-six other Houston boys, he had been murdered and buried by the homosexual owner of a candy factory, the mass murderer of the century, Dean Corll, according to his two teenage confessed accomplices, Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr., and David Brooks. Many of the young boys had not even been reported as missing, and the fact that they were dead would probably never have come to light had not one of the murderers confessed. For in Houston, where in a typical year the total number of murders is twice that of London despite the fact that London is six times as large and far more densely populated, missing persons and violence are likely to be considered commonplace. In the months before the trial of Henley and Brooks, Jack Olsen interviewed and probed for answers about the criminals, the victims and the city itself, which remained for the most part silent, angry and defensive. The result is a classic of true crime reportage.

Dean Corll

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781517485009
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (85 download)

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Book Synopsis Dean Corll by : Jack Rosewood

Download or read book Dean Corll written by Jack Rosewood and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an area of Houston known as the Heights, boys had been going missing for years, but it was the peace-and-love 1970s, so police just called them runaways, even if they'd left with little more than a swimsuit and some change. When the truth was uncovered, and police - and the rest of Houston - realized the boys had become victims of notorious American serial killer Dean Corll, Houston recoiled in horrified shock. Residents realized that they had not only become the site of the most grisly mass murder in Texas history, but the worst mass murder in all of U.S. history. The word serial killer had not yet been coined, and as body after decomposing body was uncovered from the dirt floor of the boat shed where Corll and his two young accomplishes had buried most of the victims, there were hardly words for what this sadistic lust killer had done. The depraved evil that Corll and his accomplices - two teen boys themselves who were promised money but eventually developed a thrill for the kill - was revealed as one of the cohorts, Wayne Henley, calmly, affably, told the stories of how after Corll sexually assaulting them and tortured them in unimaginable fashion, they would kill them and take the boys' bodies away to bury them beneath the dirt. This serial killer's biography will haunt you, especially as you learn more about the sadistic torture methods lust killer Corll used on his young victims, all lured to his various apartments by people they believed were their friends. While Corll is dead, killed by Henley during the lust killer's last night of depravity, the case remains entwined in Houston history, and unforgettable for the families of those who lived it.

The Candy Man

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Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (689 download)

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Book Synopsis The Candy Man by : Jessi Dilman

Download or read book The Candy Man written by Jessi Dilman and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who knew Houston's 'Candy Man' Dean Corll all described him the same way - well-mannered, considerate, quiet, neatly groomed, and cheerful. He could usually be found in one of the more affluent communities within Houston, entertaining young boys at a small candy factory owned by his mother - the boys would pop in to watch as the pieces of candy came off the assembly line, and they all got along well with Dean.But some boys saw a completely different side of the Candy Man.From December 13, 1970 to July 25, 1973, 28 boys between the ages of 13 and 20 vanished from a neighbourhood just west of downtown Houston. The young men had all been tortured, then killed, by Dean Corll - who was, at that time, America's most prolific serial killer.

The Candy Cards

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ISBN 13 : 9781708149710
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (497 download)

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Book Synopsis The Candy Cards by : Robert Brown

Download or read book The Candy Cards written by Robert Brown and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How that man was able to go out to that storage shed, time after time, and bury one more dead boy is something I'll never understand. You get close to evil like that, no matter how long ago it was, and it never leaves you." Detective David Mullican, recollecting the Houston Mass Murders, April 2011 During the early 1970s, more than three dozen teenage boys went missing from the working-class neighborhood of Houston Heights, in the south of Texas. The parents of a number of these boys received strange postcards from their sons, telling them that they were fine and that they had found jobs somewhere else in the state, anywhere from Dallas to Austin. Then, in August 1973, the Houston Police Department made a shocking discovery; something that would later become known as the Houston Mass Murders. After further spine-chilling investigations, the police found that prior to the murders, in the late 1960s, a young man by the name of Dean Corll had been handing out free candy to teenagers in Houston Heights. This man - who was vice-president of his mother's candy company - was described by fellow residents as gentle, friendly and well-mannered. They couldn't have been more wrong... The Candy Cards is the shocking true story of Dean Corll, a.k.a. The Candy Man, one of the deadliest serial killers in American history. Robert Browns thrilling account of this chilling story will have readers draw into to this story as much as any page turning crime thriller. Disclaimer: The material in this publication has a strong adult theme and is intended for an adult audience. Reader discretion is advised.

The Candy Man of Houston

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781508632054
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis The Candy Man of Houston by : Brian Lee Tucker

Download or read book The Candy Man of Houston written by Brian Lee Tucker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dean Corll was an electrician for Houston Power and Light, but most of Henley's friends knew him as the Candy Man, so named because he had labored for years in the candy manufacturing plant that he and his mother had once owned. Corll was famous for giving away candy to the kids. Little did they know that 'the Candy man of Houston' was in fact a sadistic, cruel, remorseless rapist and murderer. Between September 25, 1970–August 3, 1973, Corll killed at least 28 young men and boys, and the actual number of victims may have been more than thirty. They were all systematically lured into his trap and then beaten, tortured, raped and strangled to death, and most victims found bore evidence of sexual torture: pubic hairs had been plucked out, genitals had been chewed, objects had been inserted into their rectums, and glass rods had been shoved into their penis and smashed. In the aftermath, two young men, Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks, Corll's two main accomplices in the heinous crimes, confessed that they had been forced to participate against their will, and Corll himself – by now having been shot dead by Henley – was the lone culprit in the torturous murders. But was he? Author Brian Lee Tucker – having culled information from documented interviews, taped confessions, newspaper coverage, magazine articles, court transcripts, provides an in depth, behind the scenes look into who the real culprits were the crimes, which at the time of their discovery, the Houston Mass Murders were considered the worst example of serial murder in American history.

The Last Book on the Left

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 1328566315
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (285 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Book on the Left by : Ben Kissel

Download or read book The Last Book on the Left written by Ben Kissel and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2020 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An equal parts haunting and hilarious deep-dive review of history's most notorious and cold-blooded serial killers, from the creators of the award-winning Last Podcast on the Left

Jerk

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061926787
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Book Synopsis Jerk by : Dennis Cooper

Download or read book Jerk written by Dennis Cooper and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] brilliant, triumphantly lurid writer as well as a supremely talented, elegant stylist whose prose is smart and nervy. He might also be the last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction.” —Bret Easton Ellis Internationally acclaimed writer Dennis Cooper continues to study the material he's always explored honestly, but does so now—in stories—with a sense of awareness and a satirical touch that exploits and winks at his mastery of this world. As it has done for decades, Cooper’s taut, controlled prose lays bare the compulsions and troubling emptiness of the human soul.

The Gates of Janus

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Publisher : Feral House
ISBN 13 : 1627310142
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (273 download)

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Book Synopsis The Gates of Janus by : Ian Brady

Download or read book The Gates of Janus written by Ian Brady and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's spree of torture, sexual abuse, and murder of children in the 1960s was one of the most appalling series of crimes ever committed in England, and remains almost daily fixated upon by the tabloid press. In The Gates of Janus, Ian Brady himself allows us a glimpse into the mind of a murderer as he analyzes a dozen other serial crimes and killers. Criminal profiling by a criminal was not invented by the dramatists of Dexter. Novelist and true-crime writer Colin Wilson, author of the famous and influential book The Outsider, remarks in his introduction to Brady's book that one must first explore the depraved reaches of human consciousness to truly understand human character. When first released in 2001, The Gates of Janus sparked controversy attended by a huge media splash. The new edition, the first in paperback, provides the reader with a decade and a half of updates, including Brady's letters to the publisher, both providing information regarding his own demented history along with demands that Feral House remove its unflattering afterword written by author Peter Sotos.

The Intrusions

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Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609456386
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis The Intrusions by : Stav Sherez

Download or read book The Intrusions written by Stav Sherez and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two London detectives track a faceless, elusive threat in “a Silence of the Lambs for the Internet age” (Ian Rankin, New York Times–bestselling author of A Song for the Dark Times). Winner, Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award A distressed young woman arrives at the police station claiming her friend has been abducted, and that the man threatened to return and “claim her next.” Detectives Carrigan and Miller of London’s Metropolitan Police are soon drawn into a terrifying new world of cyberstalking—where the threat of online intimidation, hacking, and control is ever-present. Under scrutiny themselves, and with old foes resurfacing, the pressure is on Carrigan and Miller to find the truth behind what these two women have been subjected to, in this “deeply unsettling page-turner” (Kirkus Reviews) by the Dagger Award finalist and author of A Dark Redemption and Eleven Days. “[A] convincingly flawed hero.” —Publishers Weekly “Sherez isn’t your standard police procedural series author. He writes literary crime thrillers with a joyfully dark heart, which just happen to involve police investigators . . . The Intrusions hurtles along on a twisting journey, but it’s a richly layered story that has plenty to say too.” —Mystery Scene Magazine “Sherez brings a trenchant, galvanic force to the crime novel.” —Financial Times “Carrigan is a complex character, someone well worth meeting again.” —The New York Times

Killer on the Road

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Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 029274210X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis Killer on the Road by : Ginger Strand

Download or read book Killer on the Road written by Ginger Strand and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True crime meets cultural history in this story of how America’s interstate highway system opened a world of mobility and opportunity . . . for serial killers. Starting in the 1950s, Americans eagerly built the planet’s largest public work: the 42,795-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Before the concrete was dry on the new roads, however, a specter began haunting them: the highway killer. He went by many names: the “Hitcher,” the “Freeway Killer,” the “Killer on the Road,” the “I-5 Strangler,” and the “Beltway Sniper.” Some of these criminals were imagined, but many were real. The nation’s murder rate shot up as its expressways were built. America became more violent and more mobile at the same time. Killer on the Road tells the entwined stories of America’s highways and its highway killers. There’s the hot-rodding juvenile delinquent who led the National Guard on a multistate manhunt; the wannabe highway patrolman who murdered hitchhiking coeds; the record promoter who preyed on “ghetto kids” in a city reshaped by freeways; the nondescript married man who stalked the interstates seeking women with car trouble; and the trucker who delivered death with his cargo. Thudding away behind these grisly crime sprees is the story of the interstates—how they were sold, how they were built, how they reshaped the nation—and how we came to equate them with violence. Through the stories of highway killers, we see how the “killer on the road,” like the train robber, the gangster, and the mobster, entered the cast of American outlaws, and how the freeway—conceived as a road to utopia—came to be feared as a highway to hell. “Strand . . . Explores the connection between America’s sprawling highway system and the pathology of the murderers who have made them a killing ground. . . . The grim stories of murder on the highway may do for road trips what Jaws did for surfing. An interesting detour into a true-crime niche.” ―Kirkus Reviews “Strand’s cross-threaded tales of drifters, stranded motorists, and madmen got its hooks into me. Reading Ms. Strand’s thoughtful book is like driving a Nash Rambler after midnight on a highway to hell.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times “A titillating, clever volume that mixes the sweeping sociological assertions of an urban-studies textbook with the chilling gore of true-crime stories.” —Bookforum “Ginger Strand is in possession of a sharp eye, a biting wit, a beguiling sense of fun—and a magnificent obsession.” —Bloomberg

The Midnight Assassin

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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 0805097686
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Midnight Assassin written by Skip Hollandsworth and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller, The Midnight Assassin is a sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885. In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. For almost exactly one year, the Midnight Assassin crisscrossed the entire city, striking on moonlit nights, using axes, knives, and long steel rods to rip apart women from every race and class. At the time the concept of a serial killer was unthinkable, but the murders continued, the killer became more brazen, and the citizens' panic reached a fever pitch. Before it was all over, at least a dozen men would be arrested in connection with the murders, and the crimes would expose what a newspaper described as "the most extensive and profound scandal ever known in Austin." And yes, when Jack the Ripper began his attacks in 1888, London police investigators did wonder if the killer from Austin had crossed the ocean to terrorize their own city. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth brings this terrifying saga to life.

Serial Killers of the '70s

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Publisher : Union Square & Co.
ISBN 13 : 1454939427
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (549 download)

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Book Synopsis Serial Killers of the '70s by : Jane Fritsch

Download or read book Serial Killers of the '70s written by Jane Fritsch and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ted Bundy to John Wayne Gacy and David Berkowitz, the 1970s were a time of notorious and brutal serial killers. Find out more about them, along with some you may never have heard of. The Co-Ed Killer, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, and Dating Game Killer—in many ways, terrifying serial killers were as synonymous with the 1970s as Watergate, disco, and the oil crisis. This fascinating collection of profiles presents the most notorious as well as lesser-known serial murderers of that decade. Beyond Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz, it includes more obscure killers like Coral Eugene Watts, known as “The Sunday Morning Slasher,” who killed 80 women; Edmund Kemper, the "Co-Ed Killer"; and Rodney Alcala, who is believed to have killed between 50 and 130 people between 1971-1979. Profiles will include: Rodney Alcala: The Dating Game Killer David Berkowitz: The Son of Sam Kenneth A. Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr: The Hillside Strangler Ted Bundy John Wayne Gacy: The Killer Clown Coral Eugene Watts: The Sunday Morning Slasher Vaughn Greenwood: The Skid Row Slasher

Houston Blue

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Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574414720
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Book Synopsis Houston Blue by : Mitchel P. Roth

Download or read book Houston Blue written by Mitchel P. Roth and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Back in 2005, the board of the directors of the Houston Police Officers' Union commissioned Mitchel Roth, Ph.D., and Tom Kennedy to research and write a book that chronicled the history of the Houston Police Department and the Houston Police Officers' Union."--Foreword.

Confession of a Serial Killer

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Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1611689732
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Book Synopsis Confession of a Serial Killer by : Katherine Ramsland, PhD

Download or read book Confession of a Serial Killer written by Katherine Ramsland, PhD and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, until he had ten victims. He named himself "B.T.K." (bind, torture, kill) and wrote notes that terrorized the city. He remained on the loose for thirty years. No one who knew him guessed his dark secret. He nearly got away with his crimes, but in 2004, he began to play risky games with the police. He made a mistake. When he was arrested, Rader's family, friends, and coworkers were shocked to discover that B.T.K. had been among them, going to work, raising his children, and acting normal. This case stands out both for the brutal treatment of victims and for the ordinary public face that Rader, a church council president, had shown to the outside world. Through jailhouse visits, telephone calls, and written correspondence, Katherine Ramsland worked with Rader himself to analyze the layers of his psyche. Using his drawings, letters, interviews, and Rader's unique codes, she presents in meticulous detail the childhood roots and development of one man's motivation to stalk, torture, and kill. She reveals aspects of the dark motivations of this most famous of living serial killers that have never before been revealed. In this book Katherine Ramsland presents an intelligent, original, and rare glimpse into the making of a serial killer and the potential darkness that lives next door.

The Happy Face Killer

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Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1844545474
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (445 download)

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Book Synopsis The Happy Face Killer by : Jack Olsen

Download or read book The Happy Face Killer written by Jack Olsen and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on access to interviews, diaries, court records and the criminal himself, this is the story of serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, who wrote confession signed with a happy face.

Elmer Wayne Henley, Mass Murderer

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Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Elmer Wayne Henley, Mass Murderer by : Ruth Kanton

Download or read book Elmer Wayne Henley, Mass Murderer written by Ruth Kanton and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elmer Wayne Henley looked like the steretypical teen of the 1970s. He worked a part-time job and got stoned on the weekend with friends. But he would soon become a participant in the Houston Mass Murders...A minimum of twenty-eight teen boys were lured by Henley and his friend to be raped and killed by Dean Corll. Why did Henley perform these atrocious acts and what drove him to ultimately kill Corll?

Christopher Wilder

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533070302
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis Christopher Wilder by : Jack Rosewood

Download or read book Christopher Wilder written by Jack Rosewood and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the many psychopaths and sociopaths that have hunted for human victims throughout history, few have been more disturbing or mysterious than Christopher Bernard Wilder - the beauty queen killer. From the middle of the 1960s until 1984, Wilder sexually assaulted countless women and murdered at least nine in Australia and the United States. The beauty queen killer was not only a true psychopath, but also a hunter as he carefully chose attractive girls and young women to victimize. But Wilder was no creepy looking killer; he was an attractive, articulate man who used a camera and offers of a modelling career to get his unsuspecting, naive victims to remote locations where he would then rape, torture, and ultimately kill them. Among serial killer biographies, Wilder's is a cautionary tale. First as a juvenile and later as a young man, Wilder was arrested on numerous occasions for sexual assaults in both Australia and United States; but he never served any time behind bars due to technicalities, witnesses refusing to testify, or the judges showing sympathy towards the beauty queen killer. When one considers some of the better known American crime stories from history, many red-flags are apparent that point towards the future criminal potential of an individual: for Wilder, the flags were bright, crimson, quite large, and difficult to avoid, yet were ignored by his friends, family, and the authorities. Christopher Wilder's saga is therefore not just a true crime murder story, but also an unfortunate example of how the system can fail to protect the public from a known sexual sadist. Open the pages of this intriguing book and read the story of an American serial killer who had it all: looks, money, and beautiful women. But as this captivating true crime story will reveal, nothing was ever enough for the beauty queen killer as he killed his way across the United States in order to satisfy his sadistic lust. Aspects of the Christopher Bernard Wilder story will disturb you, but at the same time you will find it difficult to put this serial killer biography down because you will be drawn in by the FBI's hunt to capture the elusive criminal."