Psycho USA
Harold Schechter
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Psycho USA
famous american killers you never heard of
Harold Schechter
Published
2012
by
Ballantine Books
in
New York
.
Written in English.
Table of Contents
| Fiends of the early Republic, 1782-1826 | ||
| William Beadle, family annihilator | ||
| Domestic slaughter then and now | ||
| Samuel Green, prodigy of crime | ||
| Jesse Strang and the Cherry Hill murder | ||
| Hawthorne and Strang | ||
| Antebellum maniacs, 1840-1860 | ||
| Robert McConaghy, "the inhuman butcher" | ||
| The Mohawk massacre | ||
| Peter Robinson, the "tell-tale heart" killer | ||
| Another tell-tale murder | ||
| Polly Bodine, "The witch of staten island" | ||
| "The worst woman on earth" | ||
| Dr. Valorous P. Coolidge, the Waterville poisoner | ||
| "The ballad of Edward Matthews" | ||
| Henrietta Robinson, "The veiled murderess" | ||
| The age of arsenic | ||
| Return J. M. Ward, "The triple murderer" | ||
| Burned alive | ||
| Francis Gouldy, pre-civil war mass murderer | ||
| The Saugerties bard, minstrel of mayhem | ||
| Albert Hicks, "The worst man who ever lived" | ||
| The resurrection of Albert Hicks | ||
| Post-civil war monsters, 1866-1880 | ||
| Martha Grinder, Lydia Sherman, and Sarah Jane Robinson: the | ||
| "American borgias | ||
| "Poison and pedophilia" | ||
| Anton Probst, "The monster in the shape of a man" | ||
| The eyes of Anton Probst | ||
| Edward H. Ruloff, "The man of two lives" | ||
| "His side of the story" | ||
| Louis Wagner, the smutty nose butcher | ||
| "A memorable murder" | ||
| Franklin Evans, the Northwood murderer | ||
| "Georgianna lovering, or the Northwood tragedy" | ||
| "Was it a ghost?" | ||
| Joseph Lapage, "The french monster" | ||
| The Langmaid memorial | ||
| The mystery of serial murder | ||
| Charles Freeman and the "pocasset horror" | ||
| The woman who killed her child for god | ||
| Emeline meaker, "the Virago of Vermont" | ||
| Mad Dorothy Talbot | ||
| Hangings public and private | ||
| Turn-of-the-century psychos, 1892-1896 | ||
| Carlyle Harris, the libertine | ||
| Dr. Robert Buchanan, copycat | ||
| Harry Hayward, "the Minneapolis Svengali" | ||
| "The fatal ride" | ||
| A hypnotic villain | ||
| Scott Jackson, who slaughtered poor Pearl Bryan | ||
| Cal Crim, "sleuth-hound of the law" | ||
| Murdered-girl ballads | ||
| A year of horror, 1927 | ||
| Andrew P. Kehoe, "the world's worst demon" | ||
| The Wall Street bombing | ||
| Ada Leboeuf, "the siren of the swamps" | ||
| "Rules for murderesses" | ||
| William Edward Hickman, "the Fox" | ||
| Cashing in | ||
| Demons of the Depression | ||
| Pearl O'Loughlin, wicked stepmother | ||
| Can Ground Glass kill? | ||
| Harry powers, "the bluebeard of quiet dell" | ||
| "The crime at quiet dell" (version one) | ||
| "The crime at quiet dell" (version two) | ||
| "The night of the hunter" | ||
| Bluebeard : fact and fantasy | ||
| Robert Edwards, the "American tragedy killer" | ||
| Erased | ||
| Robert Irwin, "the mad sculptor" | ||
| Soldier, sailor, serial killer, 1941-1961 | ||
| Eddie Leonski, "the brown-out strangler" | ||
| No rest for the wicked | ||
| Julian Harvey and the Bluebelle's last voyage | ||
| Antone Costa, the "Cape Cod vampire" | ||
| Final words | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Index. |
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Classifications
Dewey Decimal Class |
364.152/3092273 |
Library of Congress |
HV6785 .S345 2012 |
The Physical Object
Pagination |
p. cm. |
ID Numbers
Open Library |
OL25206613M |
ISBN 13 |
9780345524478, 9780345524485 |
LC Control Number |
2012004990 |
History Created February 15, 2012 · 1 revision
| February 15, 2012 | Created by LC Bot | import new book |