Product Description

THE BUTCHERS covers more than thirty cases, from Catherine Hayes who set a trend in Dismemberment in 1726 when she hacked off her husbands head and tossed it into the Thames, to Dennis Nilson who was doing much the same to his victims in 1983; from Marcel Petiot's quicklime pits in Occupied Paris, to New York's infamous Albert 'The Cannibal' Fish. However meticulous and ingenious, none of them got away with murder! and, as this fascinating book shows, only painstaking investigation and forensics led to the final unmasking of the sadists and psychotics who sought such bloody concealment of their crimes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #368011 in Books
• Published on: 1992-05-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 323 pages

Customer Reviews

Not a book for the weak
This book gives the most amazing insight into the type of crimes that have been committed over the decades. It is not for the squeemish as there are methods in some of these crimes that will make you cringe in disgust. Even so if you are as curious as I am about how the minds work of those that commit such macabre crimes this book is a must.

Read alot about murders and forensics? Then this isn't for u
Maybe i have read to many of these books but i can't say i found it needed a strong stomach, apart from one of the photos. But if you are seriously interested in forensics/murders or the area in general i would not reccomend reading this book.

The information on the cases is either too short or there are long transcripts which were of little interest, mainly because they were pages long and not broken up with explanations about why they were there.

If however you have never read or read very little on the subject, this book is probably a good starting point. It gives an overview of 15 (or so) murderers over many years. Describing dismemberments, acts of cannabilism etc but not in as much detail as some of the books available. So if you can't handle this book i wouldn't advise reading any others on the subject.

All in all, it's for the amatuer forensic fans among you. The book is ok, but in my opinion there are better ones on the site.