Serial Killers of the 70s - Stories Behind a Notorious Decade of Death

"The Co-Ed Killer, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, and Dating Game Killer--in many ways, terrifying serial killers helped define the 1970s. These ... profiles present notorious as well as lesser-known murderers of that decade. Beyond Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz, [the book] includes such perpetrators as Coral Eugene Watts, 'The Sunday Morning Slasher,' who killed 80 women; Edmund Kemper, the 'Co-Ed Killer'; and Rodney Alcala, believed to have killed as many as 130 people"--Publisher marketin

About the author

Jane Fritsch is a journalist who was a reporter and editor at The New York Times, where she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a reporter for The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and The Chicago Tribune, where she covered the trial of the serial killer John Wayne Gacy. She was an assistant professor at The Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University.

Summary

Find out more about the notorious serial killers of the 1970s in this book. Subjects include Ted Bundy, The Zodiac Killer and the Dating Game Killer.

Product details

• Authors: J. Fritsch, Jane Fritsch
• Publisher: Union Square
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781454939382
• ISBN: 978-1-4549-3938-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Profiles in Crime
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Historical, True Crime / Espionage, TRUE CRIME / Murder / Serial Killers