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Loading... The Cases That Haunt Usby John E. Douglas
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Great read! Douglas delves into some of the most notorious cases in history. He gives honest accounts of the crimes, adding to it his opinions from what really happened to who-dunit. I found the book informative and quite interesting. I only took issue with the Jon Benet Ramsey case. I found Douglas's opinions to be skewed in favor of the Ramsey's due to his employment by them. What does it say about me that I am fascinated by true crime, disasters, and psychological deviants? Not sure I want to go there! But it is true, and John Douglas' dissection (pun intended) of these famous crimes kept me turning pages. Gives a sense of closer to some cases that will be remembered for all time. 0.021 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com (ISBN 0671017063, Mass Market Paperback)Confident in his opinions and systematic in his examination of high-profile whodunits, FBI veteran John Douglas proves his worth once again as one of the world's best psychological detectives. You may think you've read all there is about Jack the Ripper, Lizzie Borden, and the Lindbergh kidnapping, but Douglas has a few surprise conclusions in his modern analysis of these gripping crimes. By applying criminal personality profiling techniques he developed while stalking more current killers, Douglas provides a fresh, sage outlook on some disturbing history. He also sheds new light on San Francisco's Zodiac Killer, the Black Dahlia murder, Bambi Bembenek, the Boston Strangler, and the continuing mystery of who killed 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey. Douglas sometimes reveals his chief suspect; other times he simply narrows down who the killer is not. In the JonBenét mystery (in which Douglas was hired by the Ramseys to find the killer), he presents a convincing case for why he believes the girl's parents are not guilty of murder. Douglas is founder of the FBI's Serial Killer Profiling Unit. His method of solving a crime by entering the mind of the killer inspired Thomas Harris's book The Silence of the Lambs. In this dissection of our most sensational crimes, Douglas proves that reality can be more horrifying than fiction. --Jodi Mailander Farrell(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:09 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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