Murder Cases of the Twentieth Century - Biographies and Bibliographies of 280 Convicted or Accused Killers

From Jack Henry Abbott, who stabbed a waiter through the heart for not allowing him to use the toilet, to the "Zodiac," an unknown California serial killer who may have murdered as many as 37 people, this reference work details 280 of the most famous murder cases of the twentieth century. Each entry contains, when applicable, birth and death dates, aliases, occupation, location of the murders, weapons used, number of victims, and the time period when the killings occurred. Films, plays, television shows, videos and audio programs based on or inspired by the case are then cited, followed by a brief overview of the murder case and a bibliography of English-language works related to it.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     

Foreword     

Preface      xvii

The Cases

Abbott, Jack Henry     

Adams, John Bodkin (acquitted)     

Allaway, Thomas Henry     

Allen, Peter Anthony     

Anderson, Craig Alan     

Andre, Carl (acquitted)     

Andrews, William A.     

Armstrong, Herbert Rowse     

Atkins, Susan Denise     

Baniszewski, Gertrude     

Barfield, Margie Velma     

Barney, Elvira Dolores (acquitted)     

Beck, Martha Jule (Seabrook)     

Bembenek, Lawrencia     

Bennett, Herbert John     

Benson, Steven Wayne     

Bentley, Derek William     

Berdella, Robert Andrew, Jr.     

Berkowitz, David     

Bianchi, Kenneth Alessio     

"Bible John"     

Blaikie, James Francis, Jr.     

Bonney, Thomas Lee     

Brady, Ian Duncan     

Branion, John Marshall, Jr.     

Broderick, Elisabeth Anne "Betty"     

Brooks, David Owen     

Browne, Frederick Guy     

Brudos, Jerome Henry     

Buckfield, Reginald Sidney     

Buenoano, Judias     

Bulloch, Dennis Neal     

Bundy, Carol Mary     

Bundy, Theodore Robert     

Buono, Angelo, Jr.     

Busacca, Thomas F.     

Camb, James     

Carignan, Harvey Louis     

Carpenter, David Joseph     

Carraher, Patrick     

Casteel, Dee Dyne     

Cavaness, John Dale     

Chambers, Robert E., Jr.     

Chapman, George     

Chapman, Mark David     

Chase, Richard Trenton     

Chikatilo, Andrei Romanovich     

Christie, John Reginald Halliday     

Clark, Douglas Daniel     

Clark, Henry Lovell William     

Coleman, Dennis, Jr.     

Collins, John Norman     

Coppolino, Carl A.     

Corll, Dean Arnold     

Corona, Juan Vallejo     

Cottingham, Richard Francis     

Crafts, Richard Bunel     

Craig, Christopher     

Crimmins, Craig Stephen     

Crippen, Hawley Harvey     

Crumm, James, Jr.     

Dahmer, Jeffrey Lionel     

Dallas, Claude Lafayette, Jr.     

Daniel, Victoria Loretha (acquitted)     

Dann, Laurie Ann     

Davies, Michael John     

Davis, David Richard     

DeFeo, Ronald Joseph, Jr.     

De Kaplany, Geza     

Demeter, Peter     

DeSalvo, Albert Henry     

Dickman, John Alexander     

Dobkin, Harry     

Donald, Jeannie     

Douglas, William HenryJames, Jr.     

Downs, Elizabeth Diane Fredrickson     

Dresbach, Ralph Wayne     

Einhorn, Ira Samuel     

Ellis, Ruth     

Engleman, Glennon E.     

Erler, Robert John, Jr.     

Essex, Mark James Robert     

Evans, Gwynne Owen     

Evans, Timothy John     

Eyler, Larry W.     

Fernandez, Raymond Martinez     

Fish, "Albert" Hamilton Howard     

Fitzsimmons, George Kearon Joseph     

Fox, Sidney Harry     

Franklin, George Thomas, Sr. (conviction overturned)     

Friedgood, Charles Edward     

Fry, John Carl     

Fugate, Caril Ann     

Fullam, Augusta Fairfield     

Fuller, Thomas Charles, II     

Gacy, John Wayne     

Gallego, Gerald Armand     

Gardiner, William George Last (acquitted)     

Garrow, Robert F.     

Gates, Wyley (acquitted)     

Gein, Edward Theodore     

Gillette, Chester Ellsworth     

Gillies, Jesse James     

Gilmore, Mark Gary     

Graham, Gwendolyn Gail     

Graham, Lewis Texada, Jr.     

Gray, David Malcolm     

Gray, Henry Judd     

"Green River Killer"     

Greenwood, Harold (acquitted)     

Gregg, Troy Leon     

Griffiths, Peter     

Griggs, Ronald Geeves (acquitted)     

Gunness, Belle     

Haigh, John George     

Hall, Archibald Thomson     

Hansen, Robert C.     

Harris, Jean Struven     

Hatcher, Charles Ray     

Hauptmann, Bruno Richard     

Heath, Neville George Clevely     

Heidnik, Gary Michael     

Heirens, William George     

Henley, Elmer Wayne     

Herrin, Richard James     

Hickock, Richard Eugene     

Hilley, Audrey Marie     

Hindley, Myra     

Hirasawa, Sadamichi     

Hobson, Sueanne Sallee     

Hoffman, Barbara     

Hoolhouse, Robert William     

Hosein, Arthur     

Hosein, Nizamodeen     

Hulme, Juliet     

Hulten, Karl Gustav     

Hume, Brian Donald     

Hunt, Joe     

"Jack the Stripper"     

Jahnke, Richard John, Jr.     

Jenkins, Steven Todd     

Jones, Elizabeth Maude     

Jones, Genene Ann     

Jones, James Warren     

Joubert, John J.     

Judd, Winnie Ruth     

Judy, Steven Timothy     

Kallinger, Joseph Michael     

Kemper, Edmund Emil, III     

Kennedy, William Henry     

Kitto, Michael Anthony     

Klenner, Frederick Robert, Jr.     

Knighten, Greg Spencer     

Knowles, Benjamin (acquitted)     

Knowles, Paul John     

Kraft, Randy Steven     

Krenwinkel, Patricia Dianne     

Kürten, Peter     

Landru, Henri Désiré     

Larzelere, Virginia Gail     

Legere, Allan Joseph     

LeGeros, Bernard John     

Leonski, Edward Joseph     

Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal, Jr.     

Light, Ronald Vivian (acquitted)     

List, John Emil     

Loeb, Richard R.     

Logan, Michael David     

Lonergan, Wayne Thomas     

Lucan, Lord     

Lucas, Henry Lee     

Lundgren, Jeffrey Don     

McCollum, Ruby     

MacDonald, Jeffrey Robert     

Mackay, Patrick David     

"Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run"     

Mahon, Patrick Herbert     

Manson, Charles Milles     

Manuel, Peter Thomas Anthony     

Merrett, John Donald     

Miller, James William     

Milo, Frederick P.     

Montgomery, Candace Lynn (acquitted)     

Morris, Raymond Leslie     

Mossler, Candace Grace (acquitted)     

Mothershed, William James     

Mullin, Herbert William     

Nance, Wayne Nathan     

Narciso, Filipina Bobadilla     

Neelley, Alvin Howard, Jr.     

Neelley, Judith Ann     

Neilson, Donald     

Nelson, Erle Leonard     

Newell, Hugh William Alexander     

Nichols, Donald Boone     

Nilsen, Dennis Andrew     

Nodder, Frederick     

Olson, Clifford Robert     

Pan, Rui-Wen     

Pancoast, Marvin     

Panzram, Carl     

Parker, Pauline Yvonne     

Perez, Leonora M. (charges dropped)     

Petiot, Marcel André Henri Félix     

Petrovich, Oliver     

Pierce, Darci Kayleen     

Pierre, Dale Selby     

Pikul, Joseph John     

Poddar, Prosenjit     

Podmore, William Henry     

Podola, Guenther Fritz Erwin     

Powell, Bernadette     

Powers, Harry F.     

Puente, Dorothea Helen     

Putnam, Mark Steven     

Ramirez, Richard Leyva     

Rattenbury, Alma Victoria (acquitted)     

Rogers, Dayton Leroy     

Rossney, Damian     

Rouse, Alfred Arthur     

Rowland, Walter Graham     

Ruppert, James Urban     

Ruxton, Buck     

Sangret, August     

Schmid, Charles Howard, Jr.     

Schreuder, Frances Bernice     

Scott, Leonard Ewing     

Seddon, Frederick Henry     

Sellers, Sean Richard     

Shawcross, Arthur John     

Sheppard, Samuel H. (acquitted)     

Simmons, Ronald Gene     

Sims, Paula Marie     

Slater, Oscar Joseph (reprieved)     

Smart, Pamela Ann     

Smith, George Joseph     

Smith, Perry Edward     

Snider, Paul Leslie     

Snyder, Ruth May     

Sobhraj, Charles     

Sodeman, Arnold Karl     

Sorrentino, Paul     

Speck, Richard Franklin     

Starkweather, Charles Raymond     

Steinberg, Joel Barnet     

Stoner, George Percy     

Straffen, John Thomas     

Stuart, Charles M., Jr.     

Stuart, Rupert Max     

Stutzman, Eli E., Jr.     

Sutcliffe, Peter William     

Swartz, Lawrence J.     

Tait, Robert Peter     

Taylor, Kenneth Z.     

Thatcher, Wilbert Colin     

Thomas, Arthur Allan (pardoned)     

Thompson, Tilmer Eugene     

Thorne, John Norman Holmes     

Tinning, Marybeth Roe     

Toole, Ottis Elwood     

True, Ronald     

Tucker, Karla Faye     

Umstadter, Travis     

Van Houten, Leslie Sue     

Vaquier, Jean Pierre     

Walker, Buck Duane     

Wallace, William Herbert (reprieved)     

Watson, Charles Denton     

Weger, Chester Otto     

Wigginton, Tracey     

Wilder, Christopher Bernard     

Williams, Wayne Bertram     

Wood, Catherine May     

Wood, Robert William Thomas George Cavers (acquitted)     

Woodfield, Randall Brent     

Wuornos, Aileen Carol     

Young, Graham Frederick     

Yukl, Charles William, Jr.     

Zeigler, William Thomas, Jr.     

"Zodiac"     

Appendix: A Classification of the Cases     

Author and Title Index to the Bibliographic Entries     

General Index to Page Numbers     

About the author

David K. Frasier is a reference librarian at the Lilly Library at Indiana University-Bloomington. He is the author of several books.

Product details

• Authors: David K. Frasier
• Publisher: McFarland
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.02.2007
• EAN: 9780786430314
• ISBN: 978-0-7864-3031-4
• No. of pages: 572
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 917 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology