American Monsters: Volume 5: The Serial Killer Case Files

by Robert Keller

12 More Terrifying Tales of America’s Most Horrific Serial Killers, including;

Coral Watts - a vicious killer who enjoyed slashing, strangling and drowning the helpless young women he targeted for death.
Harvey Robinson - once this juvenile serial killer locked on a female target he seldom quit, as one terrified victim discovered.
Albert De Salvo - was De Salvo really the Boston Strangler? Many experts now believe the real killer got away with murder.
Angel Resendiz - a deadly illegal alien who rode the rails from Mexico to Canada, dispensing death wherever he stopped.
Dean Corl - along with two willing teenaged accomplices Corll orchestrated the biggest killing spree in American history.
Nannie Doss - a chubby granny with an engaging giggle who sent four husbands, a sibling, two children, two grandchildren and her mother to their graves.
Gary Ray Bowles - the houseguest from hell, those who offered this brutal killer hospitality, invariably ended up bludgeoned to death.
Edmund Kemper - a double murderer at 15, Kemper was set free, to unleash a reign of terror on the student population of Santa Cruz.
Charles Albright - some people collect stamps, some art, others coins. Charles Albright collected eyes.
Carl Panzram - the toughest man every to pass through the American penal system, Panzram conducted a decades long killing spree encompassing four continents.
Loren Herzog & Wesley Shermantine - a.k.a. the Speed Freak Killers. Best friends since childhood, these reprobates graduated from bullying to murder while still in their teens.
Randy Kraft - a prolific serial killer who tortured and murdered as many as 67 young men, keeping a detailed scorecard of his atrocities.

Genres: True Crime

116 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 26, 2013

Reviews

[Kevin Combs · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good Crime Book

The book was interesting and informative. I found several errors of wrong names example the Vanderheiden name was also spelled Vandermeiden. Poor proofreading. Other than that it's a good book full of sick, depraved idiots who killed innocent people.

[L J Field · Rating 4 out of 5]

Is it safe?

Reading this series (this is currently number 5 of 10 books) makes it clear that leaving one's house is a dangerous business. These psychopaths kill strangers without remorse and, for the most part, find their victims in a totally random fashion. Each of these volumes detail the circumstances of 12 serial killers. That gives us 120 vicious madmen, plus a few more when partnered up, and the series seems to have no end in sight.

This particular volume contains names you've never heard of along with the likes of Edmund Kemper, Albert DeSalvo, Dean Corll and the worst and most vicious of the bunch, Carl Panzram. Panzram alone is worthy of a full title dedicated to him alone. Then there are names with less notoriety - the plate is just too full.

This was an interesting read with just enough information and detail to make you shudder. Another fine effort by Keller.

[Malaya Hoffmann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well-researched and very interesting. Some minor typos.

[Karen Green · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great insight into some less known serial killers