Title: The black book of serial killers. In the minds of serial killers.
Publisher: Editions Grasset and Flasquelle
Collection: Points
date: January 2010
Number of pages: 768 p.
Cover: Henry Lee Lucas. Bettman / Corbis newspaper and Marianne rosentiehl / Sygma / Corbis
Dedication: " This book is dedicated to Isabelle Longuet"
Comment: This book paints a dark portrait of six serial killers whose notoriety has inspired many writers or filmmakers. The only difference is that they existed. Stéphane Bourgoin , French specialist serial killers, we proposes a psychological analysis documented based on excerpts from interviews with the killers and the testimonies of victims. Profiles studied, some were drawn from police reports, judgments and interviews with psychologists or testimony of the victims. Others are the result of direct interviews with the killers by Stephane Bourgoin. This intrusion into the hellish world of serial killers psychology confirms that the latter was not built in a day.
AMES SENSITIVE DESIST!
The Vampire of Düsseldorf: Peter Kürten
The eldest of a large family whose mother is absent and an abusive alcoholic father, was nicknamed the vampire of Düsseldorf because of the many crimes committed in the region. Always on her own and has a high IQ and an excellent memory, Peter Kürten is one of those serial killers that qualifies Bourgoin organized killer. Perfectly integrated in society, rampant in the vampire murdering women with a hammer or scissors for most. He is perfectly aware of his sexual sadism, freely admits his pyromania and explains with a coldness disconcerting penchant for blood, he realized early on that her sexual pleasure is related to the suffering of his victims and bloodshed caused during his expeditions crime. Acting out of consience, the vampire said he had no qualms, if only for the families of victims. Guillotined in 1931, the vampire of Düsseldorf before his execution said that his ultimate pleasure is to hear his own blood flow when the blade of the guillotine decide his throat.
The Boston Strangler Albert De Salvo
murderer of 13 women between 1962 and 1964, Albert De Salvo initiated early to petty crime in a family atmosphere difficult (alcoholic father). With an insatiable sexual appetite, Robert De Salvo sign his crimes thanks to the accessories used to strangle his victims, that they tied around their necks. It obeys the crises he calls himself the thing. Diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, he began his series of murders of mostly retired women and then attacks at young women, which distorts the slopes of the police. The latter, powerless in this case will even call Hurtos, the famous (but ineffective) "psychic detective". It will take a final attempt to rape the choke is identified and imprisoned for the first time. Then the events are connected and the killer, by bragging to a fellow prisoner, will make a confession about the true nature of homicide strangulation and rape. Imprisoned in Bridgewater, Robert De Salvo found stabbed to death. The throttle was aware of his psychiatric problems but received no help for the exit. To date, the case of the Boston Strangler is still unsolved.
The monster of Rochester: Arthur Shawcross
The monster of Rochester also known as the "Rochester Nightstalker" or "Geenesee River Killer" is a dangerous pedophile, schizophrenic who shows signs of an "oral-erotic fixation with a need for maternal protection" P.311. Unlike most serial killer Arthur Shawcross has a fairly happy childhood until the birth of his brothers and sisters. After being imprisoned for 15 years for murdering two children, the monster of Rochester is unfortunately released in 1987. Thus began a series of ten murders of prostitutes. Mythomaniac Arthur Shawcross often contradicts his testimony by it is for the police, other inmates or psychologists. He feels no remorse in relation to crimes and pleads insanity by using its trade with psychologists (he lied about his experiences in Vietnam and discusses the cases of cannibalism unproven). Its impotence in fact a dangerous psychosexual killer who should have been interned in psychiatric hospitals upon release from prison in 1987.
The Milwaukee cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer
repressed homosexual, Jeffrey Dahmer is a manic-depressive who finds sexual pleasure in necrophilia and cannibalism. Yet high in a loving family, Jeffrey Dahmer trains to dissect animals before attacking for the first time in a man. Alcoholic, Dahmer began to frequent the gay community where it will eventually meet most of its victims. By the desperate state of her child's father, Jeffrey sent to the army, hoping to get him out of his alccolique. But it is a waste since his return to the USA, he was sentenced Following the murder of a child. In 1982, his father sends him to his grandmother for help. But contrary to the expected effect, is at his grandmother that Dahmer yields to his propensities morbid attacking homosexuals, Dahmer systematic drug his victims before raping them and dismember them. After a utlime aggression, Dahmer is updated following the escape of his victim. Overwhelmed by the many proofs of his crimes, the cannibalistic Milwaukee is finally sentenced to fifteen consecutive life sentences. He eventually murdered by a fellow prisoner.
Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole: The Hand of Death
These two companions killings are famous for their crimes committed against dozens of people in the years 1970-1980 USA. Respectively reared in appalling conditions at home (with matricide in the key), the pair formed after they met, a duo Infernal. Under the influence of drugs and alcohol, the macabre couple defrays chronicles the era in killing raping and eating his victims according to his constant movement. The two lovers say psychopaths have been part of a satanic cult, the Hand of Death, who commanded their murders. Widely publicized, Lucas and Toole are incarcerated in prison for life where they will end their days.
The ogre of Santa Cruz: Edmund Kemper
With an exceptional IQ, Edmund Kemper suffers from his earliest Children's autotaritarisme hard for his mother. Brought up in very specific conditions, Ed feeds gradually, an unspeakable hatred for his mother and sisters who continue to oppress and denigrate him. Killing only women, the ogre of Santa Cruz, whose stature earned him the nickname, looking around the murder of his victims to avenge his mother. Students of the University of Santa Cruz are its preferred prey because they refer to the image of women did not deserve it according to his mother. Organized killer, Edmund Kemp never leaves evidence of his crimes. It was after the assassination of his mother finally went to the police. Sentenced to life imprisonment for his many crimes (murder, rape, cannibalism, necrophilia), the ogre of Santa Cruz now lives in prison and helps physicians to study the psychology of serial killers.
Conclusion:
This black book presents a factual Bourgoin edifying on the world of serial killers. This reading is difficult and many passages of the book are unsustainable: the direct testimony of victims and killers, reports of the courts and those of the police to bring these stories a realistic dimension that freezes the blood. Details on the procedures of the killers and the incursion into their mental world and give the turnstiles one tries to categorize each profile for reassurance. Because it is reassuring to say that there is a serial killer profile. Unfortunately, reading the black book, it does not seem to be a textbook case: indeed, the family antecedents contribute largely to the development of psychotic behavior but that does not explain everything. Far from corresponding to well-defined profile types, the killers Bourgoin presented here may have different social backgrounds, disparate levels of intelligence and social relations with the external environment change. These are not necessarily their physical and mental disabilities do not always match the image that can be serial killers. The only common denominator seems to be my sense of sexual deviancy exacerbated by multiple reasons. The black book is therefore certainly not a book to put all hands.
AMES SENSITIVE DESIST!
The Vampire of Düsseldorf: Peter Kürten
The Boston Strangler Albert De Salvo
murderer of 13 women between 1962 and 1964, Albert De Salvo initiated early to petty crime in a family atmosphere difficult (alcoholic father). With an insatiable sexual appetite, Robert De Salvo sign his crimes thanks to the accessories used to strangle his victims, that they tied around their necks. It obeys the crises he calls himself the thing. Diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, he began his series of murders of mostly retired women and then attacks at young women, which distorts the slopes of the police. The latter, powerless in this case will even call Hurtos, the famous (but ineffective) "psychic detective". It will take a final attempt to rape the choke is identified and imprisoned for the first time. Then the events are connected and the killer, by bragging to a fellow prisoner, will make a confession about the true nature of homicide strangulation and rape. Imprisoned in Bridgewater, Robert De Salvo found stabbed to death. The throttle was aware of his psychiatric problems but received no help for the exit. To date, the case of the Boston Strangler is still unsolved.
The monster of Rochester: Arthur Shawcross
The Milwaukee cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer
Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole: The Hand of Death
The ogre of Santa Cruz: Edmund Kemper
With an exceptional IQ, Edmund Kemper suffers from his earliest Children's autotaritarisme hard for his mother. Brought up in very specific conditions, Ed feeds gradually, an unspeakable hatred for his mother and sisters who continue to oppress and denigrate him. Killing only women, the ogre of Santa Cruz, whose stature earned him the nickname, looking around the murder of his victims to avenge his mother. Students of the University of Santa Cruz are its preferred prey because they refer to the image of women did not deserve it according to his mother. Organized killer, Edmund Kemp never leaves evidence of his crimes. It was after the assassination of his mother finally went to the police. Sentenced to life imprisonment for his many crimes (murder, rape, cannibalism, necrophilia), the ogre of Santa Cruz now lives in prison and helps physicians to study the psychology of serial killers.
Conclusion:
This black book presents a factual Bourgoin edifying on the world of serial killers. This reading is difficult and many passages of the book are unsustainable: the direct testimony of victims and killers, reports of the courts and those of the police to bring these stories a realistic dimension that freezes the blood. Details on the procedures of the killers and the incursion into their mental world and give the turnstiles one tries to categorize each profile for reassurance. Because it is reassuring to say that there is a serial killer profile. Unfortunately, reading the black book, it does not seem to be a textbook case: indeed, the family antecedents contribute largely to the development of psychotic behavior but that does not explain everything. Far from corresponding to well-defined profile types, the killers Bourgoin presented here may have different social backgrounds, disparate levels of intelligence and social relations with the external environment change. These are not necessarily their physical and mental disabilities do not always match the image that can be serial killers. The only common denominator seems to be my sense of sexual deviancy exacerbated by multiple reasons. The black book is therefore certainly not a book to put all hands.
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