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Throughout history there have been a number of female serials killers, but what drives these women to kill? Clark and Palattella dive deeper into this question by examining the case of Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, and provide a history of how the criminal justice system has handled complex and controversial issues surrounding mental illness.
List of contents
Introduction
1 Cycle of Death: Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong's Pattern of Violence
2 In Rare Company: Female Serial Killers in History
3 Killing Like a Man: Angels of Death, Black Widows, and Damsels of Doom
4 A Cluttered Mind: Marjorie Diehl's Hoarding and Other Obsessions
5 Dictionary of Disorder: Defining Mental Illness
6 Death of a Boyfriend: A Fatal Shooting, a Suicide, and a Question of Stability
7 "A Madman or a Natural Fool": Determining Mental Competency
8 "Scared to Death": Marjorie Diehl's First Homicide Trial
9 Flight of Ideas: The Burdens of Bipolar Disorder
10 "Freezer Queen": Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong Kills Again
11 The Fractured Intellectuals: The Pizza Bomber Plot Unravels
12 Psyche on Trial: Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong's Final Verdict
Afterword
About the author
Jerry Clark, PhD, retired as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2011 after twenty-seven years in law enforcement, including careers as a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. He is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he is also co-owner of Clark & Wick Investigations LLC.
Ed Palattella joined the Erie Times-News, in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1990. He has won a number of awards, including for his investigative work and his coverage of crime.
Both are the authors of Pizza Bomber: The Untold Story of America's Most Shocking Bank Robbery and A History of Heists: Bank Robbery in America, which was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2015.
Summary
Throughout history there have been a number of female serials killers, but what drives these women to kill? Clark and Palattella dive deeper into this question by examining the case of Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, and provide a history of how the criminal justice system has handled complex and controversial issues surrounding mental illness.
