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New True Crime Book + Exciting Opportunities
If you’re a reader of the Kill Zone, you’ll notice the top half of this post is the same today. My other adventures to write a new true crime book I’m sharing only…
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Is a Young Child Serial Killer Born Bad?
While researching cases for Pretty Evil New England, I stumbled across the bizarre case of America’s youngest male serial killer. Later, I searched for a female child serial killer and found an even…
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Serial Killers by State, 2020 Edition
The general public believes they could spot a multiple murderer on sight, but that’s a dangerous misconception. Male and female serial killers walk among us. One look at serial killers by state tells…
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What is the Serial Killer Gene?
The serial killer gene has upended the longstanding debate of Nature vs. Nurture. Genetics provide an individual with a spectrum and his/her environment determines where s/he will lie within that spectrum. But what…
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Vintage Death Rites That Seem Creepy Today
To celebrate the release of Pretty Evil New England (yay!), I feel it’s my duty to share some creepy death rites of the past that at the time seemed perfectly normal. In the…
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Men They Couldn’t Hang
If a prisoner survived three trips to the gallows, should he be set free? That question plagued the public when faced with men they couldn’t hang. These are their stories. < cue Law…
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Serialists: How Male and Female Serial Killers Differ
Male and female serialists differ in many ways. By the end of this post, you decide who’s more ruthless. The media attaches cutesy nicknames to female serial killers, like Giggling Granny, Jolly Jane,…
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Family Annihilators + Look Back at 2019
The holidays are often spent with family. My family, especially my siblings, are a nutty bunch whose thoughts run in line with mine (must be in the DNA). So, as I sat around…
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How Many Serial Murderers Stalk Your Streets? 2019 Stats
In 1992, Dr. Mike Aamodt started collecting and coding data on serial murderers. Today, the Radford Serial Killer Database contains 3,304 serial killers, mass murderers, spree killers, and other types of multiple murderers. With over…
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Dear Serial Killer …
I read a ton of serial killer thrillers. It’s my preferred genre as a writer, movie-goer, and reader (along with true crime). When authors do their homework, the books are superb. Can’t put…