Serial Murderers and their Victims, 5th ed. - Brainshare Public ...

CONTENTS xi
Ritualism, Cults, and Child Victims 238
PROFILE 8.8 Robin Gecht, Edward Spreitzer, and Andrew and
Thomas Kokoraleis, 1981–1982 240
Victim Selection 241
PROFILE 8.9 Dean A. Corll, David O. Brooks, and Elmer
Wayne Henley, 1970–1973 244
Methods and Motives 245
Offender History 247
PROFILE 8.10 Leonard Lake and Charles Ng,
1983–1985 248
PROFILE 8.11 Gerald A. Gallego Jr. and Charlene Gallego,
1978–1980 250
Disposition of Offenders 250
9 The Female Serial Murderer 253
Identifying Female Serial Murderers 254
PROFILE 9.1 Betty J. Neumar, “Killer Granny,”
1952–2007 254
Emergence of Female Serial Murderers 257
PROFILE 9.2 Aileen Carol Wuornos, 1989–1990 260
Victim Selection 261
PROFILE 9.3 Nannie Doss, the “Giggling Grandma,”
1925–1954 264
Methods and Motives 267
PROFILE 9.4 Christine Falling, 1980–1982 272
Psychopathology of Female Offenders 273
Disposition of Female Offenders 273
Summary 275
10 Victims 277
Demographics of Victimization in Serial Murder 279
Victim Facilitation 289
Missing and Murdered Children 291
Children as Victims of Serial Murderers 293
Luring Children 296
Agencies for Missing, Murdered, and Exploited Children 299
Other Specific Victims of Male Serial Murderers 300
Women 300
Prostitutes 302