My Life Among the Serial Killers

Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers

Valutazione 3.7
5 ore 54 min
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Descrizione del libro

Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than eighty serial killers around the world. What she has learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious killers known to man.

Dr. Helen Morrison, a leading expert on serial killers, has spent as many as four hundred hours alone with depraved murderers. In My Life Among the Serial Killers, Dr. Morrison relates how she profiled Richard Otto Macek, who chewed on his victims' body parts, stalked Dr. Morrison, then believed she was his wife. She conducted the last interview with Ed Gein, the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. John Wayne Gacy, the clown-obsessed killer of young men, sent her crazed Christmas cards, and gave her his paintings as presents. Dr. Morrison has received letters from killers, read their diaries and journals, evaluated crime scenes, testified at their trials, and studied photos of the gruesome carnage. She has interviewed the families of the victims, and the spouses and parents of the killers.

Through it all, Dr. Morrison's goal has been to discover the reasons why serial killers are compelled to murder, how they choose their victims, and what we can do to prevent their crimes in the future. Her provocative conclusions will stun you.

Read by Helen Morrison

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Tempo Audiolibro:

5 ore 54 min

Lingue:

Inglese

Pubblicato:

4/5/2004

Editore Audiolibro:

HarperAudio

ISBN Audiolibro:

9780060764159

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Recensioni di My Life Among the Serial Killers

Insightful

Dean

I give the author the benefit of the doubt and suppose this audio version was shortened beyond reason. The audio book in its current version offers little psychological insight; the author claims to have worked scientifically with the suspects but provides only interview notes (yes, that's ONE scientific method) - other methods are only discussed in the 'what else you could research' section at the end. There is no logical progression in the book. As we are being confronted with interview material and facts we feel just as confused as the author must have - but since she doesn't provide any evidence for her main theory (don't want to spoil it for you) apart from 1 quote and doesn't discuss the pros and cons, this book felt like hours of way too detailed descriptions of the horrific acts of these people (I didn't pick it up for that) without actually helping me understanding more about the topic. Unfortunately, a waste of time. But I commend and thank the author for her important work!

Rainer

Jes

Hyvä

Mirva

Informatiivinen.

Annukka