American Monsters Volume 10

12 More Horrifying Stories of America’s Most Deadly Serial Killers, including;

William Heirens: the infamous 'Lipstick Killer' of 1940's Chicago. But was Heirens really the brutal slayer of three, or was he the politically expedient fall guy for an ambitious States Attorney?

Richard Cottingham: mild office worker by day, torturer and serial killer by night. The Torso Killer left a trail of mutilated bodies across New York and New Jersey.

Gary Ridgeway: As far as body count goes, few murderers match the Green River Killer. Confessed to 48 victims, but investigators suspect there may have been many more.

Craig Price: America's youngest serial killer, Price murdered his first victim at 13, and had added three more before he'd even turned 16.

Richard Speck: cold-blooded killer who raped and murdered 8 young nursing students in a single night.

Robert Garrow: a career criminal with a taste for bestiality and necrophilia, Garrow slaughtered four young victims during a murderous spree.

Henry Lee Lucas: proficient serial killer or proficient liar? Lucas confessed to over 300 murders, definitely committed three and is suspected in as many as 50.

John Edward Robinson: lured his victims via Internet chat sites, then raped, tortured and murdered them, before storing their bodies in his own, unique coffins.

Dorothea Puente: murder-for-profit killer who fed drug overdoses to her elderly tenants then went on cashing their social security checks for years after their deaths.

John Eric Armstrong: traveled the world with the US Navy, racking up kills in every port, from Hawaii to Hong Kong.

Harrison Graham: Graham had a unique way of dealing with corpses, he simply allowed them to rot in his apartment. The stench of 8 decomposing bodies eventually led to his downfall.

Zodiac: America's most enigmatic killer. Zodiac killed at least 5 and taunted the San Francisco police, daring them to try and stop him.

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American Monsters Volume Ten

American Monsters Volume 9

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

The Chicago Rippers: four deadly Satanists who abducted, raped, tortured and cannibalized their female victims.

Jesse Pomeroy: known as "The Boy Fiend," Pomeroy was sentenced to death aged just 14.

Jeffrey Dahmer: one of America's most notorious serial killers, Dahmer murdered at least 15 young men, cannibalizing them and preserving their body parts.

Glen Rogers: Rogers murdered at least four women. But did his confession prove that O.J. Simpson was innocent?

Michael Swango: a deadly doctor who may have killed at least 60 in an intercontinental murder spree.

Gary Heidnik: held 6 women as sex slaves in his self-designed torture chamber.

Anna Marie Hahn: serial poisoner from the 1930's who went to the electric chair for her crimes.

Alton Coleman and Debra Brown: murderous pair who launched a killing spree across 5 states, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake.

Erno Soto: a deadly phantom who preyed on the children of Harlem and went by the ominous sobriquet "Charlie Chop-off."

Robert Ben Rhoades: murderous trucker who turned his rig into a mobile torture chamber.

Anthony Sowell: the Imperial Avenue Strangler murdered ten women, stashing their remains in his home.

Darren O'Neall:  brutal rapist and murderer who strangled and bludgeoned at least three women to death.

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American Monsters Volume Nine

American Monsters Volume 8

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

Aileen Wournos: female serial killer who gunned down seven men and was mythologized in the Academy Award-winning movie, "Monster."

Arthur Gary Bishop: A sickening pedophile who murdered five young boys, snatching them from the streets before bludgeoning and strangling them to death.

Ted Bundy: charming, articulate and deadly. Bundy cut a swathe of destruction across the country, raping, killing and committing necrophilia on his young victims.

Juan Corona: a California labor broker with a penchant for hacking his workers to death with a machete.

Richard Trenton Chase: the notorious 'Vampire of Sacramento,' Chase literally tore his victims apart, before consuming their flesh and blood.

The Briley Brothers: a trio of deadly siblings who carried out one of the most bloody killing sprees in Virginia history

William Suff: serial killer and keen chef. But did Suff feed the flesh of his victims to unwitting work colleagues?

Belle Gunness: a deadly female Bluebeard who sent as many as 42 suitors to their graves, before disappearing with a fortune.

George Russell: Russell had a problem with rejection, as three unfortunate women discovered to their cost.

Michael Ross: serial rapist and strangler of young women, Ross was the first man executed in Connecticut in almost half a century.

Randall Woodfield: known as the I-5 Killer, Woodfield was once a draftee to the Green Bay Packers before turning his attention to a far more deadly pursuit.

Charles Starkweather: James Dean wannabe who, together with his 13-year-old girlfriend, murdered 11 people during a bloody spree.

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American Monsters Volume Eight

American Monsters Volume 7

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

Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris: a pair of deadly psychopaths who kidnapped, raped and tortured teenaged girls, recording their dreadful deeds on tape.

Joe Ball: murdered and dismembered at least three women, but did he feed their remains to his pet alligators?

John Wayne Gacy: one of America's most notorious serial killers. Gacy killed at least 33 young men, burying the bodies in the crawlspace of his house.

Keith Jesperson: the Happy Face Killer used his job as a long-haul truck driver to dispense death from coast to coast.

Velma Barfield: born-again Christian, model parent, serial murderer of six people, including her own mother.

Gerald Stano: went to the chair for over 40 brutal murders, but was he a serial killer or just a serial confessor?

Micajah & Wiley Harpe: arguably America's first serial killers, the Harpes rampaged through Mississippi and Kentucky, killing, robbing, and raping as they went.

Lorenzo Gilyard: a rare serial killer who stopped killing of his own accord. And he might have gotten away with murder had DNA evidence not nailed him as the deadly Kansas City strangler.

Jerry Brudos: a cross-dressing foot fetishist and necrophile, Brudos kept some of his victims' body parts as bizarre keepsakes.

Lemuel Smith: already serving life for a series of brutal murders, Smith claimed one last victim, a female prison guard who he savagely choked and mutilated.

William W. Rogers: a surgical nurse who took his work home with him, leaving a trail of dismembered corpses throughout New York and New Jersey.

Joseph Kallinger: enlisted his 13-year-old son as his accomplice in a series of horrific home invasions.

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American Monsters Volume Seven

American Monsters Volume 6

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

William Bonin: one of the most vicious murderers in US history. The "Freeway Killer" worked with various accomplices to abduct, rape and torture over 20 teenaged boys.

Joseph Edward Duncan III: a sickening pedophile who wiped out an entire family to get to the object of his desire, an 8-year-old girl.

Albert Fish: this frail, grandfatherly old man carried a deadly secret. He was a cannibal and torturer of young children.

Arohn Kee: child rapist and murderer who turned the projects of East Harlem into his personal killing ground.

Gerard Schaefer: a killer cop who used his position to abduct young women and torture them to death.

Kendall Francois: known as "Stinky," and with good reason, too, he had the bodies of eight murdered prostitutes decomposing in his attic.

Robert Lee Yates: Spokane serial killer who, for a time, rivaled the Green River Killer in his body count.

Andrew Urdailes: a lethal Marine who left a trail of death across both California and Illinois.

Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins: dubbed the "Meanest Man in America," Gaskins may have claimed as many as 100 victims.

John Norman Collins: a Ted Bundy prototype, Collins kidnapped, tortured, raped and mutilated his young female victims.

David Spanbauer: career burglar and rapist who practiced serial murder as a deadly sideline.

Leonard Lake & Charles Ng: the tag team from hell. These depraved ex-marines kidnapped and imprisoned several women, using them as sex slaves before torturing and murdering them.

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American Monsters Volume Six

American Monsters Volume 5

The lives and horrifying deeds of 12 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 vicious 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 Corll: 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 house guest 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 or baseball cards or vintage comic books. 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.

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American Monsters Volume Five

American Monsters Volume 4

The lives and horrifying deeds of 12 of America’s most horrific serial killers, including:

Dayton Leroy Rogers: bondage, torture and a bizarre foot fetish were all part of this depraved serial killer’s deadly signature.

Douglas Clark and Carol Bundy: he was a sexual sadist and pedophile with a taste for necrophilia, she his willing accomplice in a series of murders known as the Sunset Strip Slayings.  

David Berkowitz: the notorious Son of Sam, who roamed the streets of New York dispensing death with his .44 caliber revolver.  

Harvey Carignan: a particularly vicious serial killer whose choice of weapon earned him the nickname, Harv the Hammer.

Carlton Gary: a truly heartless murderer who preyed on frail old ladies, strangling them to death in their beds.

Genene Jones: a monstrous, callous nurse whose desperate need for attention led her to murder as many as 47 babies and children in her care.  

Wayne Adam Ford: one of the few serial killers to surrender to police, but not before he tore four unfortunate women apart.

Daniel Conahan Jr.: got his kicks photographing gay men in the nude and then strangling them to death.

Carroll Cole: committed his first murder at age 8 and didn’t stop killing until he was eventually caught over 30 years later.

Arthur Shawcross: having escaped the death penalty for the murder of two children, this sadistic killer turned his attention on the prostitutes of Rochester, N.Y. But did he cannibalize his victims?

Paul Durousseau: the most deadly taxi driver since Travis Bickle. Women who took a ride in his cab never came back.

Ed Gein: a grave-robbing ghoul who took to furnishing his home with the heads, bones and skin of his victims.

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American Monsters Volume Four

American Monsters Volume 3

The lives and horrifying deeds of 12 of America’s most horrific serial killers, including:

Rodney Alcala: who would have thought that the handsome, charming winner of The Dating Game was, in fact, a homicidal maniac. 

Robert Hansen: a big game hunter who turned his attention to hunting humans, turning them loose in the wilderness and telling them to run for their lives.

Kenneth Bianchi & Angelo Buono: two murderous cousins, working together to unleash a reign of unprecedented terror on the women of Los Angeles.

Henry Louis Wallace: the Charlotte Strangler murdered 9 women in a two-year spree that had even FBI profilers baffled.

H. H. Holmes: deadly doctor who built a vast torture castle in Chicago in the late 1800’s, then lured countless young women to their deaths.

Danny Rolling: a brutal bank robber who turned to murder in his spare time, literally tearing his eight victims apart.

Charles Cullen: convicted of 40 murders and suspected of as many as 400. Is he America’s most prolific serial killer?

Derrick Todd Lee: murdered at least seven Baton Rouge women. Amazingly, another serial killer was working the same turf at the time, killing to keep up with Lee’s body count.

Herb Baumeister: family man and successful businessman by day, deadly strangler of gay men by night.

Tommy Lynn Sells: for 20 years he traveled the country, killing at will, until the courage of a ten-year-old girl brought him to justice.

Wayne Williams: The Atlanta Child Killer murdered 29 black children, teenagers and young men over a bloody 23 months. Williams took the fall but doubts still persist over his guilt.

Hadden Clark: a cross-dressing cannibal who was convicted of two murders, but had a trophy stash that suggested many more.

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American Monsters Volume Three

American Monsters Volume 2

The lives and murderous careers of 12 of America’s most horrific serial killers, including;

Patrick Kearney: a.k.a. The Trash Bag killer, despite standing just 5'5”, Kearney cut a swathe of destruction across southern California, leaving at least 35 dismembered corpses in his wake.
 
Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez: an obese, sex-starved nurse and a toupee wearing Latin lothario, who duped and then murdered lonely women in 1940's New York. 

Dennis Rader: the notorious and elusive BTK Killer, who held the citizens of Wichita, Kansas in a state of terror for over 30 years, before his eventual capture.

Earle Nelson: the inhuman “Gorilla Killer”, who rampaged through 1920's America and into Canada, killing and raping as he went.

Charles Schmid: known as the Pied Piper of Tucson, Schmid had an almost cult-like following of teenaged devotees who would do anything for him - even participate in murder.

Joel Rifkin: a born loser who failed at everything he tried - except murder. Rifkin killed and dismembered as many as 17 women.

Herb Mullin: a deadly psychotic, Mullin killed with guns, knives and bludgeons, all because he believed he could prevent an earthquake by committing murder.

John Joubert: snatched three young boys off the street in broad daylight, then tortured and stabbed them to death.

Paul John Knowles: rejection by his fiancée triggered a murder spree across 25 states during which 18 people were brutally slain for the amusement of the, so-called, Casanova Killer.

Larry Eyler: a lethal psychopath who trawled the freeways of the American Midwest for victims who he literally tore apart.

Ray and Faye Copeland: Ray was 76, Faye 69, but that didn't stop them murdering five men - for the most unusual of motives.

Cary Stayner: For 30 years Cary Stayner fantasized about murdering a woman, then he snapped, with deadly consequences for the four unfortunates who crossed his path.

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American Monsters Volume Two

American Monsters Volume 1

Depending on which source you believe, there are anything from thirty to literally hundreds of serial killers wandering the streets of America right now.  In this book, we explore the lives and murderous careers of twelve of these American monsters, including;

David Carpenter: the Trailside Killer, who turned the hiking trails and beauty spots around San Francisco into his personal killing fields.

Westley Allan Dodd: a sickening pervert who tortured, stabbed and strangled three young boys to death.

Richard Ramirez: a.k.a. The Night Stalker, a satanic burglar, rapist and murderer who had the whole of Los Angeles living in a state of terror.

Melvin Rees: dubbed the Sex Beast by the media, this depraved killer from the fifties wiped out an entire family to satisfy his appalling appetites.

Gerald and Charlene Gallego: a killer couple who targeted young girls, killing and raping their way across four states.

Donald Harvey: dubbed the “Angel of Death”, Harvey killed at least seventy hospital patients by suffocation, poisoning, drug overdoses, and other methods.

Robert Berdella: turned his house into a virtual torture castle, where he conducted vile experiments on young men - and noted their reactions in his murder journal.

Harvey Glatman: a sexually depraved photographer who criminal profilers and psychologists consider an archetypal serial killer.

Bobby Joe Long: a prolific rapist who turned to murder, with devastating results for the women of south Florida.

Cleophus Prince Jr.: African-American serial killer who terrorized San Diego in the 1980’s, stabbing young women to death in their apartments. 

Christopher Wilder: a millionaire building contractor with a taste for raping and torturing beautiful women.

Gordon Northcott: an axe murderer from the 1920’s who tortured, sexually abused, and murdered several young boys.

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American Monsters Volume One