A Book About Hunting Humans

Hunting Humans

The Rise of the Modern Multiple Murderer

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In this new edition of his landmark 1986 study, pioneering anthropologist Elliott Leyton examines the psyche and motivations of his six original multiple-murderer subjects and now takes stock of how far we've come up since and then in our agreement of why people commit gruesome assaults on innocent strangers. This case-study arroyo — based on years of immersion in the killers' diaries, confessions, psychiatric interviews, statements to the press, videotapes, and photographs — led the manner in defining serial and mass murders non as the acts of alien creatures with deranged minds but rather as personalized protests by alienated men against the order that they believe has excluded them. Leyton as well provides an analysis of the Washington, D.C. sniper case. While uncovering the central themes of modern civilization that motivated their deeds, Leyton provides vivid and chilling portraits of Edmund Kemper, Ted Bundy, Albert DeSalvo, and David Berkowitz, series murderers whose prolonged killing campaigns provided them revenge against the world and celebrity careers; and other mass murderers whose brief merely horrific murder sprees constituted their own enigmatic suicide notes. The author shows that the motives of multiple murderers are non but sexual or psychotic; merely rise from the very core of American mass civilisation.