A gripping true-crime compendium for readers drawn to the darkest extremes of human psychology.

This chilling book explores some of the most horrific crimes in human history. In this volume, author Al Cimino explores the darkest corners of humanity, from the killers who delighted in the pain they caused to others who hid in plain sight and deceived those all around them while secretly engaging in an orgy of violence and destruction.

This book features such terrifying criminals as:
• Ted Bundy, whose charming personality hid horrifying secrets
• Ed Kemper, the vicious killer who killed his own mother
• Katherine Knight, who chopped up her husband for an evening meal
• Charles Manson, whose infamous cult terrified Hollywood in the 1960s
• Jeffrey Dahmer, who lured victims to his apartment and kept souvenirs of their body parts.