American Serial Killers

This edition profiles and documents some of America's most infamous serial killers and unsolved murders. More pointedly, in most of the chapters, you are transported to the actual killing site where the homicides occurred.

The updated editions are also important to keep the victims' legacies fresh and significant to a society often numbed by the frequency of violence and sensationalist murders. The private trauma remains fresh to the immediate victim's families, friends and diverse relationships. The ghosts of recollection are prevalent, searing and painful. They never recede. For the innocent victims of homicides, their stilled voices are silenced, but their identities and legacies should never be forgotten.

The cases profiled include:

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA:
Zodiac Killer, Dorothea Puente, The Zebra Killers, Juan Corona, The Trailside Killer, Jim Jones and the People's Temple, Richard Trenton and Santa Rosa Hitchhiking Murderers

CENTRAL CALIFORNIA:
Edmund Kemper III, Speed Freak Killers, Herbert Mullin and Jose Manuel Martinez

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:
Charles Manson, Efren Saldivar, Heaven's Gate Mass Suicide, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris, Rodney Alcala, Hillside Strangler Duo, Richard Ramirez, Golden State Killer and Jon David Guerrero

PORTLAND, OREGON:
The Dark Strangler, Michele Dee Gates, Randall Woodfield, Smiley Face Killer, Scott William Cox and Homer Lee Jackson

SALEM, OREGON:
Richard Marquette, Women's Shoe Fetish Killer and William Scott Smith

NEWPORT, OREGON:
Bobby Jack Fowler

EUGENE OREGON:
John Charles Bolsinger

MILWAUKEE, OREGON:
Dayton Leroy Rogers

SEATTLE METRO, WASHINGTON:
Green River Killer, Morris Frampton and Ted Bundy

BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON:
George Russell, Jr.

TACOMA, WASHINGTON:
Jake Bird and Lee Malvo

OLALLA, WASHINGTON:
Linda Burfield Hazzard

LONGVIEW, WASHINGTON:
Joe Kondro

VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON:
Warren Forrest

BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON:
Kenneth Bianchi

SPOKANE, WASHINGTON:
Donna Perry and Robert Lee Yates

WASHINGTON D. C.
Shotgun Stalker and Beltway Sniper

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA:
Southside Strangler

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA:
Charles Severance

FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA:
James Lewis

FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA:
Melvin David Rees

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA:
Elderly Prey Serial Killer

CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA:
Shawn Lester

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA:
Sidney Brinkley

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA:
Henry Louis Wallace

CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA:
Donald Pee Wee Gaskins

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN:
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer and North Side Strangler

CARMEL, INDIANA:
Herb Baumeister

COLUMBUS, OHIO:
Dr. Michael Swango and Random 1960s Serial Killer

CINCINNATI, OHIO:
Cumminsville Serial Killer and Cincinnati Strangler

MONTANA:
Shoebox Annie French and DeCasto Earl Mayer, Ted Unabomber Kaczynski and the Missoula Mauler