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Psycho USA Summary Æ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free • 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 Ruloff “The Man of Two Lives” A genuine Jekyll and Hyde his brilliant scho I received this book through Goodreads First ReadsPsycho USA is a nonfiction book that documents forgotten or not well known murderers or killers in American History There s a nice is that a word that can be used when discussing serial killers sprinkling of weapons and poisons making the overall theme of murder a varied read My favorite part again that sounds creepy were the songs and poems that were written about some of these killers to keep the story alive It sounds dark but how many people know the Lizzie Borden rhyme It was a cool glimpse into our history our being America Not murderers Overall I found this book an interesting and morbidly entertaining read I was admittedly a bit bored in the beginning and I wasn t sure if it was going to be my kind of story I m not sure if it was my mood or the book that changed but it picked up and I m very glad it did I have a dark interest in murders and prisons and this book was right up my alley It was informative well written and reflective People always say Man the world is going to hell in a hand basket We never acted like this Well the murderers of the 1800s who wielded pickaxes and hammers instead of guns beg to differ As Sartre said L enfer c est les autresI recommend this book to anyone who enjoys crime novels nonfiction or even horror

Psycho USA Summary Æ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Larship disguised his bloodthirsty brutality and his oversized brain gave new meaning to “mastermind”   Spurred by profit passion paranoia or perverse pleasure these killers the Witch of Staten Island the Smutty Nose Butcher the Bluebeard of uiet Dell and many others span three centuries and a host of harrowing murder methods Dramatized in the pages of penny dreadfuls sensationalized in tabloid headlines and immortalized in “murder ballads” and classic fiction by Edgar Allan Poe and Theodore Dreiser the demonic denizens of Psycho USA may be long gone to the gallows but this insidiously irresistible slice of gothic Americana will ensure that they’ll no longer be forgott Due to the grisly subject matter I can t say I really enjoyed this book I did however find it darkly fascinating It s very strange and in an odd way reassuring to know that our country has always had its Bundys and Dahmers and it s not that just late 20th century society is singularly disturbed Every society and every era has its monsters From a cultural perspective it s also interesting to consider why some killers live forever in infamy like Lizzie Borden for instance when other even terrifying and dastardly people are uickly forgotten I for one was shocked that I had never before heard of the Kehoe murders especially considering he was a right wing terrorist a precursor to Timothy McVeigh This collection was well written with just enough narrative and detail to make me feel like I was reading a horror novel and not a historical overview The scholarly validity of this book is up for debate I suppose I think it should have included footnotes for instance but it s a good popular history of some of the darkest characters in our cultural history

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Psycho USA Summary Æ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free AMERICA’S MOST COLD BLOODED   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 US history The law gave them their just desserts but now the hugely acclaimed author of The Serial Killer Files and The Whole Death Catalog gives them their dark due in this absolutely riveting true crime treasury Among America’s most cold blooded you’ll meet This book was about the most twisted true crime book I have read in a long timeI didn t realize there were so many psychos back in the 19th century but after reading this book there were than I ever expected to be living in those days The author Harold Schechter delved long and deep into the past to find these crazy murderersAll these murderers were people I have never heard of before and it didn t matter if it was a man or a woman as both were the most cold hearted individuals to walk this earth In my opinion the men in this book that committed the crimes back in the 1800 s were worse than the famous killers that we know of today We thought that Bundy Dahmer and Gacy were twisted but after reading this book there were worse killers than them back in the old days The women were just as bad and it seems that the women loved to use arsenic and any kind of poison they could get their hands on to commit their crimes The men loved to use axes and hatchets to chop up their victims This book is not for the faint of heart as the author goes into descriptive detail about the murders and it was one of the most detailed versions of murders that I have read in a very long timeI found myself through some of the stories getting ueasy as the information of the murders were so detailed that I could imagine the pain and agony of the victims That is saying a lot for me as I consider myself a hardened horror fan and normally I don t get ueasy reading about twisted psychos But with this book it was a different This is no walk in the park book It is a ride into hell Four stars for this one