Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects
by Harold Schechter
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"From veteran true crime master Harold Schechter comes Murderabilia, a history of crime told through the dark objects left behind. The false teeth of a female serial killer from 1908, the cut-and-paste confession of the Black Dahlia killer, the newly cracked cipher of the Zodiac killer, the shotgun used in the Clutter family murders, which were made famous by Truman Capote's true crime classic In Cold Blood-these are more than simple artifacts that once belonged to notorious murderers. They show more are objets of fascination to the legion of true crime obsessives around the world. And not merely for fleeting dark thrills, but because they represent a way to better understand those who we typically label monsters in lieu of learning how they actually became one. In Murderabilia, veteran true crime writer Harold Schechter presents 100 murder-related artifacts spanning two centuries (1808-2014), with accompanying stories of various lengths. A visual and literary journey, it presents a history unlike any previously told in the true crime genre, one that speaks to the dark fascination of true crime fans while also presenting a larger historical timeline of how and why we continue to be captivated by the most sensational crimes and killers among us"-- show lessTags
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Harold Schechter is a professor of American literature and culture at Queens College, the City University of New York.
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- People/Characters
- Naomi Wise; Jonathan Lewis; William Burke; William Hare; Helen Jewett; Richard P. Robinson (show all 143); Mary Rogers; John Colt; Samuel Adams; George Parkman; John White Webster; Antoine Probst; Christopher Deering; Jesse Harding Pomeroy; John Bender Jr.; Louis Wagner; Charley Ross; Alfred Packer; Charles Freeman; Susan Hancock; Servant Girl Annhilator; Jane Toppan; H.H. Holmes; Alice Pitezel; Nellie Pietzel; Lizzie Borden; Theodore Durrant; Blanche Lamont; Johann Hoch; Adolph Luetgert; Roland Molineux; Stanford White; Evelyn Nesbit; Chester Gillette; Grace Brown; Belle Gunness; Harley Hawley Crippen; Carl Panzram; George Joseph Smith; Peter Kürten; Frederick Mors; Charles Norris; Henri Landru; Carl Wanderer; William Desmond Taylor; Mary Miles Minter; Nathan Leopold; Richard Loeb; Clarence Darrow; Edward Wheeler Hall; Eleanor Mills; William Edward Hickman; Marion Parker; Ruth Snyder; Tom Howard; Andrew Kehoe; Albert Fish; Grace Budd; Al Capone; Bonnie Parker; Clyde Barrow; Herman Drenth; Harry Powers; Winnie Ruth Judd; Thalia Massie; Grace Fortescue; Bruno Richard Hauptmann; Charles Lindbergh; Anna Marie Hahn; John Dillinger; Cleveland Torso Murderer; Eliot Ness; Robert George Irwin; Albert Dyer; Leonarda Cianciulli; George Metesky; James A. Brussel; Marcel Petoit; John George Haigh; William Heirens; Nannie Doss; Elizabeth Short; Howard Unruh; John Reginald Christie; Sam Sheppard; Ed Gein; Harvey Glatman; Charles Starkweather; Caril Ann Fugate; Lana Turner; Cheryl Crane; Johnny Stompanato; Salvador Agron; Richard Eugene Hickock; Perry Smith; Herbert Clutter; Albert DeSalvo; Marcus Harvey; Ian Brady; Myra Hindley; Kitty Genovese; Winston Moseley; Charles Schmid; Gertrude Baniszewski; Sylvia Likens; Richard Speck; Charles Whitman; Mary Bell; Zodiac Killer; Charles Manson; Jeffrey MacDonald; John List; John Wayne Gacy; Ted Bundy; Harold Shipman; David Berkowitz; Ted Kaczynski; Gary Heidnik; Jeffrey Dahmer; Laurie Dann; Tsutomu Miyazaki; Ivan Milat; Danny Rolling; Robert Pickton; Susan Smith; Andrew Cunanan; Gianni Versace; James Byrd Jr.; Matthew Shepard; Eric Harris; Dylan Klebold; Armin Meiwes; Scott Peterson; Laci Peterson; John Allen Muhammad; Lee Boyd Malvo; Lonnie Franklin Jr.; Tamerlan Tsarnaev; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; Slender Man; Morgan Geyser; Anissa Weier; Payton Leutner
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, History, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 364.152 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Crime Criminal offenses Offenses against the person Homicide
- LCC
- HV6515 .S346 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and offenses
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- English
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