Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (66 page)

Acknowledgments

I owe a lifetime of thanks to my mom, Svetlana. Thanks to my dad, Boris, who was a big reader of almost every kind of book and shared them all with me, but smoked too much to make it through life long enough to read this one.

Thanks to filmmaker Guiseppe Asaro and Kathy Foy, in whose home in Los Angeles I began working on this book; and a big thanks to my in-laws, Lidy and Aronne Zinato and his sister Jone—
the zia
—in whose home in Carpenedo-Venice, Italy, I finished it. Their support of and belief in me through hard lean times I will always remember.

Thanks to Sergio Pastrello of Professional Video in Martellago-Venice, my crazy comrade in travels through the Italian television business, and to my friends in Toronto—Flavio Belli, Tom Dungey, Paul Eichgrun, Shannon Griffiths, Doug James, Peter Lynch, Dave Walker, and Tony Wannamaker—all of whom kept me sane, advised, amused, or employed in their various means and ways these last few years. My cousins Lucy, Boris, and John Zawadzki—and Leo—were always behind me.

A special thanks to Sarah Christie, who over a period of several years diligently restored and copied for me photographs from the archives of the Toronto Police Service, some of which appear in this book. Thanks to Eddie at Dencan Books in the Junction in Toronto, who kept me supplied with true-crime classics. I thank Jack Webster, former Toronto police homicide squad chief and recently retired force historian, for his relentless help and advice in guiding me through the historical records of the Toronto Police Service and for his own observations on the nature of the criminal mind and homicide. And thanks to some great schoolteachers: Dina Fayerman, Rochelle Carr, and the late Murray Hirsch, who taught me how to read and ask.

And a real big thanks to my agent, Deidre Knight, who made this happen, and my editor, Ginjer Buchanan at Penguin Group USA, who went for it.

Above all, Quantel and Alisa—Q & A—who have made life worth living and a whole lot of fun too. It’s been a trip!

Endnotes

1
. Rod Leith,
The Prostitute Murders: The People vs. Richard Cottingham,
Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1983, pp. 17–18.

2
. Peter Conradi,
The Red Ripper,
London: Virgin, 1992.

3
. Robert F. Kennedy, “Eradicating Free Enterprise in Organized Crime,” in
The Pursuit of Justice,
New York: Harper and Row, 1964.

4
. Robert D. Keppel with William J. Birnes,
The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer,
New York: Pocket Books, 1995, pp. 424, 443.

5
. Eric W. Hickey,
Serial Murderers and Their Victims,
3rd ed., Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2002, p. 132.

6
. Ibid., p. 133; see also Philip Jenkins, “African-Americans and Serial Homicide,”
American Journal of Criminal Justice,
17(2), 1993, pp. 47–60.

7
. Hickey,
Serial Murderers,
p. 35.

8
. Ibid., p. 213.

9
. Ibid., p. 247.

10
. Gene Johnson, “Green River Killer May Contribute Little to Serial Killer Studies,” Associated Press, November 9, 2003.

11
. Mike Archbold,
King Country Journal,
8 November 2003
http://www.kingcountyjournal.com/sited/story/html/14840
.

12
. Robert K. Ressler, Ann W. Burgess, and John E. Douglas,
Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives,
Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1988, p. 2.

13
. U.S. Department of Justice,
Crime in the United States,
press release, Washington, D.C.: FBI National Press Office, October 13, 1996.

14
. Mark Riedel, “Counting Stranger Homicides,”
Homicide Studies,
2(2), May 1998, pp. 206–219.

15
. Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Uniform Crime Report 2001,
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002.

16
.
Uniform Crime Report 2001.

17
. Peter Wyden,
The Hired Killers,
New York: Bantam Books, 1963, p. 4.

18
. Michael Newton,
Serial Slaughter: What’s behind America’s Murder Epidemic?,
Port Townsend, Wash.: Loompanics, 1992, p. 6.

19
. Stephen J. Giannangelo,
The Psychopathology of Serial Murder,
London: Praeger, 1996, p. 5.

20
. Newton,
Serial Slaughter,
p. 5.

21
. Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Preliminary Uniform Crime Report 2002,
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, June 16, 2003.

22
. Newton,
Serial Slaughter,
p. 5.

23
. Hickey,
Serial Murderers,
p. 132.

24
. Newton,
Serial Slaughter,
p. 4.

25
. “Texas woman might be serial killer victim,” San Antonio Express-Newshttp://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=1131955, February 21, 2004.

26
. Allan Dowd, “New Remains Found at Accused Canada Killer’s Farm,”
Reuters
January 27, 2004; “B.C. missing women investigation cost $70M,”
Canadian Press,
February 21, 2004; and “Canadian Police Confirm Finding Remains of Nine More Vancouver Women at Pig Farm,”
Associated Press,
January 27, 2004.

27
. Ressler et al.,
Sexual Homicide,
pp. x–xi.

28
. Philip Jenkins,
Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide,
New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994, pp. 58–59.

29
. John Gill, “Missing Children: How Politics Helped Start the Scandal,” FatherMag. com, 2000
http://www.fathermag.com/006/missing-children/abduction_2.shtml
.

30
. Michael Fumento, Hudson Institute,
American Outlook,
Spring 2002
http://www.fumento.com/exploit.html
.

31
. John Gill,
op cit.,
http://www.fathermag.com/006/missing-children/abduction_3.shtml
.

32
. John Gill,
op cit.,
http://www.fathermag.com/006/missing-children/abduction_3.shtml
.

33
. Ronald M. Holmes and James De Burger,
Serial Murder,
Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage, 1988, pp. 19–20.

34
. Michael Newton,
The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers,
New York: Facts on File, 2000.

35
. Hickey,
Serial Murderers,
p. 242.

36
. J. Best, “Missing Children: Misleading Statistics,”
Public Interest,
92, 1988, p. 92.

37
. Kenneth Chew, Richard McCleary, Maricres Lew, and Johnson Wang, “The Epidemiology of Child Homicide in California, 1981 through 1990,”
Homicide Studies,
3(2), May 1999, pp. 151–169.

38
. David Finkelhor, Gerald Hotaling, and Andrea Sedlak, “The Abduction of Children by Strangers and Non-Family Members: Estimating the Incidence Using Multiple Methods,”
Journal of Interpersonal Violence,
7(2), June 1992, pp. 226–243.

39
. Jenkins,
Using Murder,
pp. 26–27.

40
. Ibid., p. 28.

41
. Newton,
Serial Slaughter,
p. 2.

42
. Ibid., pp. 2–3.

43
. Internet Crime Archives, “Serial Killer Hit List—Part 1,”
http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/serial.html
.

44
. Internet Crime Archives, “Killers on the Run,”.

45
. “SA Police Nab Two Alleged Serial Killers,”
The Namibian,
http://www.namibian.com.na/Netstories/2000/July/Africa/008E23B9B0.html
, July 6, 2000.

46
. Steven A. Egger,
The Killers among Us: An Examination of Serial Murder and Its Investigation,
Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1998, pp. 74–75.

47
. Ibid., p. 74.

48
. Ibid., p. 75.

49
. Mark Seltzer,
Serial Killers: Death and Life in America’s Wound Culture,
New York: Routledge, 1998, p. 1.

50
. Angus McLaren,
A Prescription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

51
. Paul Plass,
The Game of Death in Ancient Rome: Arena Sport and Political Suicide,
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.

52
. Seneca,
De Clementia,
1.25.1.

53
. Roland Auguet,
Cruelty and Civilization: The Roman Games,
London: Routledge, 1972, p. 67.

54
. Seneca,
De Clementia,
2.4.

55
. Brian Meehan, “Son of Cain or Son of Sam: The Monster as Serial Killer in
Beowulf,” Connecticut Review,
Connecticut State University, Fall 1994.

56
. George Bataille,
The Trial of Gilles de Rais,
Los Angeles: AMOK, 1991, p. 14.

57
. National Archives of France,
Inquest by Commissioners of the Duke of Brittany, September 18–October 8, 1440.
Call Number: 1 AP 585, originally from the Archive de la Trémoille.

58
. National Archives of France, Statement of Guillaume Hilairet and his wife Jeanne Hilairet, September 28–30, 1440.

59
. National Archives of France, Statement of Andre Barbe, September 28–30, 1440.