Serial Killers: True Stories of the World's Worst Murderers

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Apparently the perfect father and husband, Mikhail Popkov was the Siberian policeman responsible for the deaths of around 30 women who reminded him of his chronically alcoholic mother who had abused him in childhood. He picked his victims up in his police car and drove them deep into the forest; they were never seen alive again. John Norman Collins was the Co-Ed Killer believed to have abducted, raped, beaten and murdered at least five young women within a 15-mile radius of Washtenaw County. Michigan. Rodney Alcala was described as a 'killing machine'. He 'toyed' with his victims, strangling them until they lost consciousness, then waiting until they revived, and sometimes repeating this process several times before finally killing them. Addicted to Murder is the story of all these men and others like them, some of the most dangerous individuals who have ever lived. It explains what motivated them to murder, how they operated, and how they were brought to justice. Be warned: not for the nervous!

Nigel Cawthorne is the author of over eighty books. His other historical titles include: The Bamboo Cage, The Empress of South America, Daughter of Heaven, World at War, The Battles of World War II, Vietnam - A War Lost and Won, History's Greatest Battles, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great and Sex Lives of the Great Dictators.