How would you treat a murderer? If you're from Hollywood and he's
notorious, you might turn him into a folk hero. Separate the facts from
the many legends and revisions that have blossomed around these killers
in this frightening look at the bloody real lives of movie's infamous
antiheroes.
You'll find a blood-curdling assortment of the "criminal elite" in
American Murder: Criminals, Crime and the Media, a rogue's gallery
of our most famous killings, killers and other scoundrels (and some that
ought to be more famous than they are). A collection of high-profile
murderers, gangsters, assassins, psychopaths, such as O.J., Amy Fisher,
Robert Blake, Susan Smith, Claus Von Bulow, the Menendez brothers,
Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Speck, Al Capone,
Pretty Boy Floyd, Bugsy Siegel, Jesse James, John Dillinger, Charles
Manson, Albert Fish, T. Cullen Davis, Ronald DeFeo, Jr., Edmund Kemper,
Beulah Annan, Bonnie and Clyde, Billy the Kid, Charlie Starkweather, as
well as an assortment of lesser known killers with some incredible
tales!
With numerous photos and illustrations, this tome is richly illustrated,
and its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness.
American Murderexplores the legends as depicted in movies,
stories, and songs. You'd not want to meet any of them in person -
either the real or Hollywood versions!
