An updated edition of the ultimate serial killer book. Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in Ancient Rome to such notorious contemporary cases as cannibal-necrophile Ed Kemper, Henry Lee Lucas, and Ted Bundy. Exhaustively researched with transcripts of interviews with killers, this new edition features up-to-date information on serial killers in the modern era - including the apprehension of BTK and the Golden State Killer.