Without Pity: Ann Rule's Most Dangerous Killers
by Ann Rule
Ann Rule's Crime Files (Collections and Selections — Compilation 1-8)
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Ann Rule deepens her unrelenting exploration of the evil that lies behind the perfect facades of heartless killers...Tags
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In addition to describing these crimes in detail, Rule provides an abundance of historical and geographic context. What struck me the most was the statistic from the 1980s regarding the average length prison time served by people jailed for murder--13 1/2 years. Boy do I hope that average is longer now.
I enjoyed this book, although I think I tired of it towards the end. (Maybe I read it to fast in the beginning as each story was a page turner).
Examination of several of Ann's cases. Culled from other books and other writings, these chapters introduce us to chilling murderers and baffling crime scenes. Most have been solved, but not all of them.
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Ann Rule was born on October 22, 1931 in Lowell, Michigan. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in creative writing, with minors in psychology, criminology and penology. She began writing for magazines including True Detective, Master Detective, Inside Detective, Front Page Detective, and Office Detective in 1969. show more During her lifetime, she wrote more than 30 books including The Stranger Beside Me; Green River, Running Red; Practice to Deceive; Ann Rule's Crime Files series, and Lying in Wait. She died on July 26, 2015 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Dedication
- To my friends, a thousand homicide detectives from at least a hundred different departments around America. For almost thirty years, I have watched them work under circumstances that most people could never imagine. When the ... (show all)rest of us are enjoying holidays, spending time with our families and sleeping, they are often out in the field, slogging through rain, mud, snow, and sometimes blood. They are coping with the devastation that violence can do to the human body. They come to know and care for the victims they never met in life, and they strive to find who took their lives away even if it means working twenty-four to thirty-six hours without sleep. They are skilled, dedicated, dogged, tough, perceptive, tender, inquisitive, compassionate, hard-nosed, meticulous, and sometimes even clairvoyant. We all hope we will never need their services, but if we should they will do their best to deliver justice. Yes, the homicide guys are sometimes full of black humor- but I have also seen most of them cry.
And a salute to Detective Sergeant Don Cameron, thirty years with the Seattle Police Department's Homicide Unit, on his retirement. A better homicide detective never served. And to Chuck Wright, who retired in 1999 after three decades with the Washington State Department of Corrections. Chuck has helped rehabilitate the thousands of people who have been assigned to his caseload, and he has also worked tirelessly for victims' rights.
And, finally, to the memory of Seattle Police Homicide investigators Detective Sergeant Ivan Beeson, Detective Dick Reed and Detective Don Strunk. - First words
- After writing more than a thousand articles about homicide cases, I suppose it's natural that some of them blur slightly in my memory.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)She is still afraid of the man who hunted humans rather than animals, and she dreads the day he is paroled.
- Disambiguation notice
- Per WorldCat, contains the following:
The tumbledown shack -- Dead and on tape -- Fatal obsession -- Campbell's revenge -- One trick pony -- The last letter -- I'll love you forever -- Murder and the proper housewife -... (show all)- The most dangerous game -- The killer who never forgot ... or forgave -- The lost lady -- The Stockholm syndrome.
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- General Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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- 364.15230973 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Crime Criminal offenses Offenses against the person Homicide Murder History, geographic treatment, biography North America United States
- LCC
- HV6529 .R848 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and offenses
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