Serial killers: shocking, gripping true crime stories of the most evil murders

Arthur Shawcross: Rochester rampager (USA, 1972-1990) --

John Wayne Gacy: killer clown (USA, 1960s-1974) --

Ted Bundy: betrayed by his bite (USA, 1974-1978) --

David Berkowitz: Son of Sam (USA, 1976-1977) --

Peter Sutcliffe: Yorkshire Ripper (UK, 1975-1981) --

Dean Corll & Wayne Henley: the candyman (USA, 1973) --

Donald Henry Gaskins (lethal Pee Wee (USA, 1975) --

Dennis Nilsen: killing for company (UK, 1978-1983) --

Fred & Rosemary West: house of horror (UK, 1967-1995) --

Ken Bianchi & Angelo Buono: the Hillside Stranglers (1977-1979) --

Richard Trenton Chase: vampire of Sacramento (USA, 1978) --

Donald Harvey: "always a good boy" (USA, 1974-1985) --

Wayne Williams: music-biz talent scout (USA, 1979-1981) --

John Francis Duffy: railway rapist (UK, 1985-1988) --

Clifford Raymond Olson: beast of British Columbia (Canada, 1980-1982) --

Gary Ridgway: Green River man (USA, 1982-1984) --

Genene Jones: deadly medicine (USA, 1980-1984) --

Andrei Chikatilo : Rostov ripper (Russia, 1979-1984) --

Leonard Lake & Charles Ng: snuff tapers (USA, 1985) --

Richard Ramirez: night stalker (USA, 1985) --

David & Catherine Birnie: folie à deux (Australia, 1986) --

Paul Bernardo: finally brought to book (Canada, 1990-1993) --

Harold Shipman: DR. Death (UK, 1970s-2004) --

Jeffrey Dahmer: Milwaukee cannibal (USA, 1991-1994) --

Colin Ireland: wannabe serial slayer (UK, 1993) --

Moses Sithole: ABC murderer (South Africa, 1995) --

Ivan Milat: backpack killer (Australia, 1989-1994) --

Robert Pickton: pig farmer (Canada, 1983-2002) --

Steve Wright: the Suffolk strangler (UK, 2006)

Introduction --

Jack the ripper: the classic enigma (UK, 1888) --

Herman Webster Mudgett: H.H. Holmes: death in the white city (USA, 1893-1896) --

Bela Kiss: barrels of bodies (Hungary 1912-1914) --

Henri Landru: the French Bluebeard (France, 1915-1919) --

Fritz Haarmann: butcher of Hannover (Germany, 1919-1924) --

Carl Panzram: totally unrepentant (USA, 1891-1930) --

Peter Kürten: vampire of Düsseldorf (Germany, 1919-1930) --

Leonard Earl Nelson: gorilla man (USA, 1926-1928) --

Marcel Petiot: vanishing refugees (France, 1940-46) --

John George Haigh: acid bath murderer (UK, 1944-1949) --

William Heirens: 'for Heave's sake catch me" (USA, 1945-1946) --

John Reginald Christie: death in 10 Rillington Place (UK, 1943-1953) --

Edward Theodore Gein: graveyard ghoul (USA, 1947-1958) --

Harvey Glatman: cheesecake photographer (USA, 1957-1958) --

Albert DeSalvo: Boston Strangler -- or not? (USA, 1962-1964) --

Ian Brady & Mya Hindley: Moors murderers (UK, 1963-1966) --

Lucian Staniak: red spider (Poland, 1964-1967) --

Jeome Brudos: shoe fetishist (USA, 1968-1969) --

Henry Lee Lucas: "I hated everybody" (USA, 1970-1983) --

Edmund Kemper: co-ed killer (USA, 1972-1973)