The Golden Age of Serial Killers. 56 Maniacs from Ed Gein to Jeffrey Dahmer

Ed Kemper, Ted Bundy, Harvey Glatman, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer… These and many other maniacs, famous worldwide, terrorized America from the 1950s to the 1990s. Why did this period become the era of flourishing serial killers? How did World War II influence the spike in serial murders, and why are many maniacs children of war veterans? How are the maniacs of the “golden age” different from killers of previous and subsequent eras, and whose crimes are the most horrific? How did the “golden age” of serial killings give rise to profiling and why has it remained in the past? Criminal historian, Doctor of Science Peter Vronsky, comprehensively researching the phenomenon of “star” maniacs, answers all these questions. Extensive and engaging, his book shows why the horrifying crimes of infamous serial killers have become a pop culture phenomenon and continue to thrill our consciousness.