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My Life Among the Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers
My Life Among the Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers | Harold Goldberg, Helen Morrison
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Over the course of twenty-five years, Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than eighty serial killers around the world. What she learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious criminals known to man.Judging by appearances, Dr. Helen Morrison has an ordinary life in the suburbs of a major city. She has a physician husband, two children, and a thriving psychiatric clinic. But her life is much more than that. She is one of the country's leading experts on serial killers, and has spent as many as four hundred hours alone in a room with depraved murderers, digging deep into killers' psyches in ways no profiler before ever has.In My Life Among the Serial Killers, Dr. Morrison relates how she profiled the Mad Biter, Richard Otto Macek, who chewed on his victims' body parts, stalked Dr. Morrison, then believed she was his wife. She did the last interview with Ed Gein, who was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. John Wayne Gacy, the clown-obsessed killer of young men, sent her crazed Christmas cards and gave her his paintings as presents. Then there was Atlanta child killer Wayne Williams; rapist turned murderer Bobby Joe Long; England's Fred and Rosemary West, who killed girls and women in their "House of Horrors"; and Brazil's deadliest killer of children, Marcelo Costa de Andrade.Dr. Morrison has received hundreds of letters from killers, read their diaries and journals, evaluated crime scenes, testified at their trials, and studied photos of the gruesome carnage. She has interviewed the families of the victims -- and the spouses and parents of the killers -- to gain a deeper understanding of the killer's environment and the public persona he adopts. She has also studied serial killers throughout history and shows how this is not a recent phenomenon with psychological autopsies of the fifteenth-century French war hero Gilles de Rais, the sixteenth-century Hungarian Countess Bathory, H. H. Holmes of the late ninteenth century, and Albert Fish of the Roaring Twenties.Through it all, Dr. Morrison has been on a mission to discover the reasons why serial killers are compelled to murder, how they choose their victims, and what we can do to prevent their crimes in the future. Her provocative conclusions will stun you.
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Pigpen_Reads
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Eggs 🧡🕯🖤 2y
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Clwojick
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Getting starting on my 12th book of #20in4, and still going! Hoping to make it to 14 complete books by the end of the Readathon! @Andrew65

Andrew65 12th book! Stunning! 👏👏👏🙌🥰 3y
TJAhearne How is this book? Worth it? 3y
Clwojick @TJAhearne it‘s been okay so far. A little dry, but since I‘m listening to the audiobook, I don‘t mind. 3y
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Sarz
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Panpan

1.5 ⭐
Don't bother.
I've seen a lot of criticism based on her psychiatry, but I'm not a psychiatrist so I won't comment on her science. But I am a lawyer, so I feel qualified to say that everything she says about lawyers & the legal system is just plain wrong. She comes across as arrogant and rude - she says horrible things about victims, prisoners, guards, & other psychologists. I did the audiobook read by her too, so am not reading tone into it.

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Hestapleton
Bailedbailed

Yeah I‘m not buying this. It‘s outdated for one and some of the things she describes (like an inmate in a hypnotic trance getting blisters on his hand while reliving a fire) I just don‘t believe. Plus the audio narration isn‘t great. On to something else!

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DanStank1
Pickpick

Interesting read. Good insight.

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RavenMaestas
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Mehso-so

You definitely have to have a specific set of interests to enjoy this book, but I happen to have those interests so I liked it quite a bit. Phycology mixed with serial killers, what could go wrong? It's really well written and is told in a truthful tone that I really appreciated! #killerbook