Serial Killer 5 Book Bundle: Top 15 Most Evil Serial Killers / Top 10 Serial Killer Families / 15 Celebrities Who Have Killed / Top 10 Doctor Serial Killers ... / Celebrity Chef Serial Killer

by Richard Berrington

Amazing & Comprehensive Serial Killer 5 Book Bundle That Will Leave You Terrified Serial Killer 5 Book Top 15 Most Evil Serial Killers / Top 10 Serial Killer Families / 15 Celebrities Who Have Killed / Top 10 Doctor Serial Killers / Celebrity Chef Serial Killer This Book Is Very Creepy, Don't Turn Your Lights OFF Thanks in no small part to the billion dollar movie industries in different parts of the world that release tonnes of serial-killer-themed movies on a yearly basis and writers and authors who publish thousands of novels and story books that portray the lives of fictional serial killers; we have become accustomed to the phrase “serial killers”. A common idiom says that “familiarity breeds contempt”; this idiom is largely true and it is fact reflected in the way we associate criminals with the phrase “serial killers”. It is not uncommon to see a toddler or perhaps, even a teenager who has spent hours watching a movie series centered around the life of a serial killer begin to associate just about every criminal activity he hears on the news with serial killing. Consequently, statements like “Dad, I heard the FBI finally apprehended the man who fatally shot aunt Serena at the park… the man must be a serial killer.” The reasons for this apparent common misinterpretation of serial killing or perhaps more appropriately, serial killer is not exactly farfetched.   Just as there seems to be a form of chaos regarding the use of the phrase “serial killer”, there also seem to be a form of “disorderliness” regarding the origin of serial killer; even though it must be said that there appears to be a consensus in the case of the latter, especially of recent. It is widely believed that the phrase was first used in an English Language book titled The Complete Detective; the book written by Richard Hughes was published in 1950. However, recent research credits the first use of the phrase albeit in German to Ernst August Ferdinand Gennat, the Director of the Berlin Criminal Police, around 20 years before The Complete Detective was published (1931 to be precise). In the new age however, FBI Special Agent, Robert Ressler, who was one of the founding members of the Bureau’s elite Behavioral Science Unit receives a larger chunk of the recognition for inventing the phrase “serial killer”. According to Robert Ressler, he fell in love with the phrase when the FBI where attempting to solve the case of the notorious serial killer “Son of Sam” (who coincidentally we are going to look at) in the 1970s. Before we begin to explore the lives of Son of Sam and other infamous serial killers this country has ever had I think it’s only fair that we fully comprehend what makes an indivual a serial killer. Just like other knock-on themes surrounding serial killer(s), the definition of what constitutes of a serial killer still generates debate even up until today. The main area of the definition of serial killer which springs up debate is the number of murder victims a serial killer should have. While the FBI puts it as a series of two or more murders committed by an individual other experts like psychologists and related professionals are of the opinion that the murder victims of serial killer should be a minimum of three. Despite this difference in the number of murder victims of a serial killer, the consensus is that uncharacteristic psychological satisfaction, financial rewards, physical and sexual delight, and aberrant search for ecstasy are often times the deciding factor in the heinous behavior of serial killers.

227 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 5, 2016

Reviews

[Marie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a new author to me and I was iffy on what to expect within these pages. I can tell you that I was pleasantly surprised. This is also a five book bundle, but the chapters are short and the author was able to squeeze everything into 208 pages.

All five books deal with all different kinds of killers that even date back to 1700 which I found interesting. I am not going to elaborate on all the details within these pages as with the stories being short there really isn't alot to tell you without giving away spoilers.

The most interesting book was the celebrities, but on a few of them I wouldn't even consider those people to even fall under the category of actual "killers". There were a couple of stories (which I won't name the celebrities) that I wouldn't even classify as those people being murderers! A couple of them were car accidents and people got killed. But to say that the celebrity had set out that day to have a car accident and kill someone is stretching it a bit. Accidents happen - people die in car accidents and like that saying goes: shit happens. No one can change what happens in the heat of a moment when you are in a car and things go awry.

There was another celebrity the author put in the book that really shouldn't even have graced these pages. That celebrity fought in WWII and did missions over Germany. War is war and fighting for your country is not considered murder. The celebrity was also in the Vietnam War as a pilot. I was very surprised that the author put that in there and the celebrity he named was a well known actor back in the 30's, 40's, 50's, and 60's.

That was my only complaint about the book as there are lines that need to be drawn of what is considered murderers and killers, but the celebrity book threw it all off. The rest of the books though were really good and some of the killers I hadn't heard of before. One of the books does have the well known killers as well like Bundy and Ridgeway are in these pages. So all in all with the different stories I would rate this book between 3.5 to 4 stars.