Just as deadly the psychology of female serial killers

"You've heard of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. But have you heard of Amy Archer-Gilligan? Or Belle Gunness? Or Nannie Doss? Women have committed some of the most disturbing serial killings ever seen in the United States. Yet scientific inquiry, criminal profiling, and public interest have focused m...

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Main Author: Harrison, Marissa A. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
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Table of Contents:
  • Case study: Amy Archer-Gilligan
  • What is a serial killer?
  • Case study: Kristen Gilbert
  • Case study: Martha Patty Cannon
  • Case study: Sharon Kinne
  • Why are we interested in serial killers?
  • Case study: Dana Sue Gray
  • Case study: Belle Gunness
  • The lives of female serial killers
  • Case study: Dorothea Puente
  • Case study: Jane Toppan
  • Case study: Aileen Wuornos
  • Mental health and substance use among FSKs
  • Case study: Martha Woods
  • Case study: Marybeth Tinning
  • Case study: Margie Barfield
  • FSK crimes and outcomes
  • Case study: Tammy Corbett
  • Case study: Genene Jones
  • Case study: Nannie Doss
  • Case study: Kimberly Clark Saenz
  • FSK motives and profile
  • Case study revisited: Kristen Gilbert
  • Case study: Judias Buenoano
  • Case study: Rhonda Belle Martin
  • Case study: Lydia Sherman
  • Comparing FSKs and MSKs: backgrounds and mental illness
  • Case study: Ed Gein
  • Case study: John Wayne Gacy
  • Comparing FSKs and MSKs: crimes and victims
  • Case study: Robert Yates
  • Case study: Jerome Brudos
  • The Behavioral neuroscience of serial murder
  • Case study: Joseph DeAngelo
  • Psychosocial factors that make a serial murderer
  • Case study revisited: Aileen Wuornos
  • Case study: Ronald Dominique
  • Case study: Dennis Rader
  • Evolutionary and converging perspectives of serial murder
  • Our understanding of serial killers evolves
  • Case study: Reta Mays.