Contributions

  • Olshaker, Mark, 1951- - Contributor

Publication

2000 - Scribner, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

88,000 words, Guess

Page Count

352 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number00063524
  • Goodreads185097
  • LibraryThing32234

Classifications

  • DDC364.15/23
  • LCCHV8079.H6 D68 2000

Description

Violent. Provocative. Shocking. Call them what you will...but don't call them open and shut. Did Lizzie Borden murder her own father and stepmother? Was Jack the Ripper actually the Duke of Clarence? Who killed JonBenet Ramsey? America's foremost expert on criminal profiling and twenty-five-year FBI veteran John Douglas, along with author and filmmaker Mark Olshaker, explores those tantalizing questions and more in this mesmerizing work of detection. With uniquely gripping analysis, the authors reexamine and reinterpret the accepted facts, evidence, and victimology of the most notorious murder cases in the history of crime, including the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the Zodiac Killer, and the Whitechapel murders. Utilizing techniques developed by Douglas himself, they give detailed profiles and reveal chief suspects in pursuit of what really happened in each case. The Cases That Haunt Us not only offers convincing and controversial conclusions, it deconstructs the evidence and widely held beliefs surrounding each case and rebuilds them -- with fascinating, surprising, and haunting results.

Description

"America's foremost expert on criminal profiling provides his analysis of seven of the most notorious murder cases in the history of crime - from the Whitechapel murders to JonBenet Ramsey - often contradicting conventional wisdom and legal decisions.". "Taking a look at each case, the authors reexamine and reinterpret accepted facts and victimology using modern profiling and the techniques of criminal analysis developed by Douglas within the FBI. This book deconstructs the evidence and widely held beliefs surrounding each case and rebuilds them - with fascinating and haunting results."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

MurderMurderersPsychologyCase studiesInvestigationTrials (murder)Criminal psychology

Times

1960's through 2000's

Genres

  • Case studies.

Other Editions

  • The cases that haunt us: from Jack the Ripper to JonBenet Ramsey, the FBI's legendary mindhunter sheds new light on the mysteries that won't go awayScribner2000-01-01

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