Former detective Geoffrey Barton reviews two books by author Christopher Berry-Dee focusing on his conversations and interviews with convicted serial killers.
On the afternoon of December 30th, 1974, seventeen year old Anthony Barbaro entered his high school in upstate New York armed with guns, explosives and a recording of Elton John’s 1974 ballad,“Ticking.”
Public displays of torture carried out by executioners were popular events in France, yet the executioners themselves, 'Les Bourreaux' were hated and shunned by society.
The intriguing case of French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru and how police misinterpreted a crucial piece of evidence allowing the secrets it contained to remain untold.
In San Francisco in 1936 a series of holdups escalated into armed robbery and eventually murder, all carried out by a trio of teens that the newspapers dubbed the "Baby Bandits".