Richard Estep is the author of twenty books, most of them in the field of paranormal non-fiction, including The Haunting of Asylum 49: Chilling Tales of Aggressive Spirits, Phantom Doctors, and the Secret of Room 666. He is a regular columnist for Haunted Magazine and has also written for the Journal of Emergency Medical Services. His lifelong fascination for ghosts has led him to investigate haunted locations around the world for the past 25 years. Richard appears regularly on the TV shows Haunted Case Files, Haunted Hospitals, Paranormal 911, and Paranormal Night Shift. British by birth, Richard now makes his home in Colorado, a few miles north of Denver, where he serves as a paramedic and lives with his wife and a menagerie of adopted animals.

About the Author
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction

1. The Cromwell Street House of Horrors-Fred and Rosemary West

2. Clowns Can Get Away with Murder-John Wayne Gacy

3. The I-70 Strangler-Herbert Baumeister

4. The Moors Murderers-Ian Brady & Myra Hindley

5. The Charming Psychopath-Theodore "Ted" Bundy

6. The Lonely Murderer-Dennis Nilsen

7. The Night Stalker-Richard Ramirez

8. Doctor Death-Harold Shipman

9. The Unrepentant Maniac-Carl Panzram

10. Hollywood Monster-Aileen Wuornos

11. Mindhunted-Edmund Kemper

12. The Yorkshire Ripper-Peter Sutcliffe

13. The Anime Killer-Tsutomu Miyazaki

14. The Milwaukee Cannibal-Jeffrey Dahmer

15. Killer at Large-The Zodiac

16. The Dating Game Killer-Rodney Alcala

17. The Giggling Granny-Nannie Doss

18. The Rostov Ripper-Andrei Chikatilo

19. Keeping It in the Family-The Sawney Bean Cannibal Clan

20. The Resurrection Men-Burke and Hare

21. The Grim Sleeper-Lonnie Franklin

22. King of the Murder Castle-H. H. Holmes

23. Busted by the Internet-Maury Travis

24. Say Your Prayers-Anthony Sowell

25. Bind, Torture, Kill-Dennis Rader

26. The Tip of the Iceberg-Samuel Little

27. The Boston Strangler...?-Albert Desalvo

28. The Acid Bath Murderer-John George Haigh

29. The Killer at 10 Rillington Place-John Christie

30. Saucy Jack the Ripper

31. The Houston Mass Murders-Dean Corll

32. Rampage and Spree Killers

33. The Texas Tower Sniper-Charles Whitman

34. The Century 16 Mass Shooting-James Holmes

Further Reading
Index

Examines the "stories of forty malevolent killers and hundreds of innocent victims, including such notorious homicidal maniacs as John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, and Jeffery Dahmer, [and] also looks at lesser-known and overlooked murderers like Herbert Baumeister, America's I-70 Strangler; Japan's 'Anime Killer,' Tsutomu Miyazaki; Russia's 'Rostov Ripper,' Andrei Chikatilo; the 'Giggling Granny,' Nannie Doss; and many more"