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Notorious, numerous and varied, serial murderers from Australia have an eclectic record of crimes, methods and trademarks. Scrutinizing these murderers at length, this book aims to identify characteristics exclusive to Australian serial killers, connecting the crimes with the continent's geography, culture and social structure.
Featured are murderers like the "Granny Killer" John Wayne Glover, William "The Sydney Mutilator" McDonald and "Backpacker Killer" Ivan Milat. Also covered are well-known events like the Snowtown Murders and killer couples like David and Catherine Birnie. Unique in the true crime genre, this book studies fictional Australian murderer Mick Taylor to examine how pop culture portrayals develop the distinct psychology of killers from "down under."
List of contents
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction: The Age of Motiveless Murder
¿1.¿Bushrangers, Blaggards and Bastards
¿2.¿Deemania: Frederick Bailey Deeming and the Origins of the Killer-Celebrity in 19th-Century Australia
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¿3.¿The Itinerant Schoolgirl Strangler
¿4.¿The Brownout Strangler
¿5.¿The Mutilator: Dead Man Walking
¿6.¿The Night Caller
¿7.¿In the Court of the Tattoo King
¿8.¿The Lonely Hearts Killer
¿9.¿Truro: The Absent Protagonist
10.¿The Beauty Queen Killer
11.¿The Birnies and the Killer Couple Trope
12.¿No More Grannies
13.¿The Backpacker Murders
14.¿The Frankston Serial Killer
15.¿Snowtown and the South Australian Nightmare
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16.¿Mick Taylor and the Tyranny of Distance
Conclusion: The Golden Age of Serial Killing
About the Contributors
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Anthony Ferguson is an author and editor living in Perth, Australia. He has published over seventy short stories and non-fiction articles in Australia, Britain and the United States. He wrote the novel Protéeacute;gé, the non-fiction books, The Sex Doll: A History, and Murder Down Under, edited the short-story collection Devil Dolls and Duplicates in Australian Horror and coedited the award-nominated Midnight Echo #12. He is a committee member of the Australasian Horror Writers Association (AHWA), and a submissions editor for Andromeda Spaceways Magazine (ASM). A four-time nominee, He won the Australian Shadows Award for Short Fiction in 2020. His short story collection, Rest in Pieces will be published by IFWG in August 2023.
Summary
Notorious, numerous and varied, serial murderers from Australia have an eclectic record of crimes, methods and trademarks. Scrutinizing these murderers at length, this book aims to identify characteristics exclusive to Australian serial killers, connecting the crimes with the continent's geography, culture and social structure.
