Serial Killers: Butchers and Cannibals

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Mass murder is awful enough. But some serial killers not only embark on slaying to slake their perverted pleasures but enjoy the mutilation of their victims' bodies - and sometimes also revert to cannibalism. The simple act of slaying would sicken most people. Yet that is not sufficient a thrill for those who find the excitement begins once their victims are dead. Cutting up corpses is, of course, one way of disposing of the evidence. But here we examine the butchers who dismember for pleasure. They are monsters like Andrei Chikatilo, the so-called 'Rostov Ripper', who tortured, murdered, choppe.;Introduction; Jack the Ripper: Crime's Most Enduring Mystery; Arthur Shawcross: Killer Consumed Rotting Corpses; Andrei Chikatilo: Rostov Ripper's Sick Appetite; Robert Berdella: Injected, Raped and Tortured; Dennis Nilsen: Quiet Killer Slept with Bodies; Joachim Kroll: Tiny Innocents Killed and Cooked; Edward Gein: Silence of the Lambs -- For Real; Adolfo Constanzo: Cooking Pot of Voodoo Cult; Patrick Kearney: Grisly Debris of Trash Bag Killer; Peter Kurten: Vampire's Perverted Pleasure; Fritz Haarmann: Butcher Who Sold Human Meat; Nathaniel Bar-Jonah: Recipes for 'Roasted Child' Introduction Jack the Ripper: Crime's Most Enduring Mystery Arthur Shawcross: Killer Consumed Rotting Corpses Andrei Chikatilo: Rostov Ripper's Sick Appetite Robert Berdella: Injected, Raped and Tortured Dennis Nilsen: Quiet Killer Slept with Bodies Joachim Kroll: Tiny Innocents Killed and Cooked Edward Gein: Silence of the Lambs -- For Real Adolfo Constanzo: Cooking Pot of Voodoo Cult Patrick Kearney: Grisly Debris of Trash Bag Killer Peter Kurten: Vampire's Perverted Pleasure Fritz Haarmann: Butcher Who Sold Human Meat Nathaniel Bar-Jonah: Recipes for 'Roasted Child' Anatoly Onoprienko: Voices that Drove the TerminatorCarl Panzram: Insane Hatred of International Killer Marcel Petiot: Dr Death, the Devious Traitor Richard Ramirez: Allure of the Night Stalker Gilles De Rais: 'First Recorded Serial Killer' Albert Fish: Boy Cooked in a Stew Bender Family: An Invitation to Dinner Lucian Staniak: Inky Clue to the Red Spider Jeffrey Dahmer: A Collector of Body Parts Joel Rifkin: Chainsaw Stained with Blood Russian Monsters: Strange Spate of Cannibalism Douglas Clark & Carol Bundy: Slayers who Cruised Sunset Strip. Henry Lee Lucas: Was He America's Worst Ever?Richard Speck: Nurses Slaughtered by Crazed Raider Dean Corll: Kids Lured by the Candy Man Elizabeth Báthory: Bloodbath of the 'Dracula' Countess.