Harold Schechter

Psycho USA Harold Schechter

In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts. But for every celebrity psychopath who's gotten ink for spilling blood, there's a bevy of all-but-forgotten homicidal fiends studding the bloody margins of U. S. history. In this book you'll meet Robert Irwin, The Mad Sculptor: He longed to use his carving skills on the woman he loved but had to settle for making short work of her mother and sister instead. Peter Robinson, The Tell-Tale Heart Killer: It took two days and four tries for him to finish off his victim but no time at all for keen-eyed cops to spot the fatal flaw in his floor plan. Anton Probst, The Monster in the Shape of a Man: The ax-murdering immigrant's systematic slaughter of all eight members of a Pennsylvania farm family matched the savagery of the Manson murders a century later. Edward H. Rulloff, The Man of Two Lives: A genuine Jekyll and Hyde, his brilliant scholarship disguised his bloodthirsty brutality.