Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal: Inside the World of Torturers, Psychopaths and Mass Murderers

By Christopher Berry-Dee and Christopher Barry-Dee

Book Overview

COMBINES HORRIFIC ACCOUNTS OF THE MOST VICIOUS MURDERS EVER COMMITTED WITH THE SHOCKING WORDS OF THE KILLERS THEMSELVES

"The bloodstains . . . that happened when I stored one of the guys upsidedown . . . it usually ran out of his nose or mouth or something . . ."
--John Wayne Gacy

"She kinda wanted it, ya know. Sex, an' stuff like that. Then I get started, an' she starts cryin' and wants her mom, so I suffocated her."
--Arthur John Shawcross, The Genesee River Killer

"Killing a woman's like killing a chicken. They both squawk."
--Kenneth Allen McDuff, Broomstick Murderer

"I ain't so bad. I've been with hundreds of men. I just ain't killed them all. Then you get a few dirty old men who go radical on me. What am I supposed to do? It was all their fault, and that's the God's honest truth."
--Aileen Carol Wuornos, "Monster"

"I took her into the bedroom and killed her. She screamed for her mom and the last thing she saw was the face of her dead friend lying under the sheets next to her."
--Kenneth Bianchi, The Hillside Strangler

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569756198
• ISBN13: 9781569756195
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Ulysses Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A scary look inside the lives of psychopaths

Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal is an amazing book. I didn't pick this book up expecting anything, so wasn't let down (as the other reviewers obviously were). This book tells about the lives of 11 serial killers. It's not very well written in parts, but the story is completely compelling, and it's hard to put down. It is extremely gory and terrifying in its descriptions, and it's about real life monsters. Some of the serial killers I had heard of before, including Aileen Carol Wournos, and John Wayne Gacy. One of the chapters describes the Amityville Horror. I hadn't realized that the movie was based on real events. But the real story is even more bizarre (and has nothing to do with spirits, but might have had a lot to do with the mob). The book gets into the back story of the crimes. It does have a lot of interviews, some with the criminals and many with people who were in their lives before and after the crimes. I don't think it's an issue that there aren't long paragraphs where the criminal talks about what happened, because often times the author states that what he was told was lies or changed completely several times in the telling. In short, this is a fascinating book.