Issei Sagawa, Armin Meiwes, Robin Gecht


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Close-up accounts of three of the weirdest and most disturbing cases of cannibalism in the twentieth century. The Murder Files is a series of individual titles, giving condensed accounts of some of the most appalling and notorious killers of all time.




Cannibals and Evil Cult Killers


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The darkest, innermost secrets of cannibals and evil cult killers are revealed.




Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender


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Addresses issues of sex and gender at the personal and the social level; examines issues of identity, status, class, ethnicity, race, and nation; of sexuality and the body; of social institutions and the structures of representation. Topics include changing conceptions of "the feminine," the family and masculinity, religion, morality, cultural images, medical practice, public health, economy and society and many more.




Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo


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Karla Homolka attracted worldwide outrage in the early nineties. The Canadian Barbie-lookalike had, with her boyfriend Paul Bernardo, participated in the 1991 and 1992 rape and murder of two teenage girls, Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French, and the rape and killing of her sister Tammy. Following a plea-bargain, she received a reduced sentence for manslaughter, even though videos showed her playing an active role in the pair's crimes. The Murder Files is a series of individual titles, giving condensed accounts of some of the most appalling and notorious killers of all time.




Arthur Shawcross


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Curiously for a serial killer and self-proclaimed cannibal, Arthur Shawcross's confessional accounts of his crimes were only partially believed. His stories changed frequently as he spoke with different people and almost everyone who interviewed him thought that he was exaggerating some of the time. So, although teeth marks were found on some of his victims, was the "Genesee River Killer" telling the truth when he confessed to eating parts of his victims? The Murder Files is a series of individual titles, giving condensed accounts of some of the most appalling and notorious killers of all time.




Ed Gein


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The story of the killer Ed Gein is one of the weirdest, most disturbing ever, one that has inspired horror stories as diverse as Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. His crimes, which were committed in and around Plainfield, Wisconsin, included exhuming corpses from local graveyards and making trophies and keepsakes from their skin and bones. The Murder Files is a series of individual titles, giving condensed accounts of some of the most appalling and notorious killers of all time.




Bonnie and Clyde


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The lives and premature deaths of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker have been turned into films, songs and novels over the years. But the true story behind these fictions remains a touching and fascinating one. The Murder Files is a series of individual titles, giving condensed accounts of some of the most appalling and notorious killers of all time.




Cannibal Serial Killers


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Dive inside the twisted minds of some of the most heinous serial killers in history with this true-crime trove of stories about cannibalistic murderers. Delving deep into the twisted actions of Hannibal Lecter–type murderers, Cannibal Serial Killers profiles the depraved individuals who prolong their horrific crimes beyond the thrill of the chase to a perverse ritualized finale. More than just stomach-churning stories, this terrifying book provides precise accounts and fascinating insights into the crimes of fourteen cannibalistic killers from all over the world, including: ALBERT FISH, who spent nine days feasting on the remains of an innocent little girl JEFFREY DAHMER, whose refrigerator was packed with the body parts of his seventeen victims ANDREI CHIKATILO, who brutally slayed and dismembered fifty-three people in southeastern Russia FRITZ HAARMANN, who drank his victims’ blood and sold their flesh on the black market STANLEY BAKER, who cut out a young man’s heart and devoured it while it was still beating JOACHIM KROLL, who cooked a stew of carrots, potatoes and a small child’s hand




Cannibal Killers


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Cannibalism is perhaps the most repugnant of all crimes against human beings. It has long been a taboo subject, with even the tabloid press shying away from publishing precise details of cannibal crimes. When Albert Fish kidnapped, killed, and consumed ten-year-old Grace Budd in New York in 1928, he went to great pains to assure her parents, in a letter he wrote six years later that brought about his arrest, that he had not sexually assaulted her. But at the time, the court portrayed Fish as a sexually motivated criminal rather than as a cannibal. Yet, sexual depravity and cannibalism are far from being mutually exclusive. Andrei Chikatilo, the Butcher of Rostov, is proof of that, having eaten parts of the sexual organs of some of his fifty-six victims. Tsutomu Miyazaki, the Japanese Dracula, murdered little girls, molested their corpses, and drank their blood. These and many other cases, including those of Jeffrey Dahmer, Edmund Kemper, Joachim Kroll (the Duisburg Man Eater), and Daniel Rakowitz—who murdered his roommate and made soup from her brains—are studied in chilling detail.




Cannibal Killers


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Anthropophagy - humans eating their fellow-humans - creates a curious blend of revulsion and fascination in the 'civilised' Western world. When the perpetrator is a murderer - most commonly a sadistic serial killer - the crime not only shocks but it causes bewilderment. With this 2015 update of her comprehensive 1993 study of cannibalistic killers, Moira Martingale expands her original research about the making of such monsters. Cannibal Killers tracked the phenomenon from five hundred years ago with the notorious Sawney Bean to those whose names became a byword for horror as the twentieth century waned, such as Jeffrey Dahmer.In this updated version, we see that in the twenty-first century cannibals who thirst for human flesh and blood are still around, and alarmingly, they have moved online.