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In terms of statistics, Dennis Nilsen is generally regarded to Britain's second most prolific male serial killer after Harold Shipman. Serial killers are, by their very nature, all odd, but even by the standards of serial killers Dennis Nilsen was pretty weird. A number of famous serial killers have indulged in necrophilia but Nilsen took this grisly hobby to absurd lengths. Nilsen would put a dead body in a chair next to him and watch television with it. He would talk to dead people as if they were still alive. Nilsen would even sit down with a corpse and have dinner with it. How did a former army chef and police officer from a small Scottish fishing port end up as one of the disturbing and notorious killers in British criminal history? Well, let's attempt to find out in Dennis Nilsen - The Necrophile Civil Servant...

This work provides readers with an authoritative resource for understanding the true extent and nature of gun violence in America, examining the veracity of claims and counterclaims about mass shootings, gun laws, and public attitudes about gun control.This work is part of a series that uses evidence-based documentation to examine the veracity of claims and beliefs about high-profile issues in American culture and politics. Each book in the Contemporary Debates series is intended to puncture rather than perpetuate myths that diminish our understanding of important policies and positions; to provide needed context for misleading statements and claims; and to confirm the factual accuracy of other assertions.This particular volume examines beliefs, claims, and myths about gun violence, gun laws, and gun rights in the United States. Issues covered in the book include trends in firearm violence, mass shootings, the impact of gun ownership on rates and types of crime, regulations and Supreme Court decisions regarding gun control and the Second Amendment, and the activities and influence of organizations ranging from the National Rifle Association to Everytown for Gun Safety. All of these topics are examined in individualized entries, with objective responses grounded in up-to-date evidence.

Originally published in 1893, ¿The Fall River Tragedy¿ is a detailed account of the case of Lizzie Andrew Borden (1860¿1927), an American woman who was tried but found not guilty for the brutal murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. There were no other suspects in the case and after her acquittal no one was ever charged for the murders. She remained in Fall River until her death aged 66. The murders garnered a great deal of media attention at the time and remain in popular culture today, providing the inspiration for a number of films, plays, books, and folk songs. This volume presents all the details of the case, as well as the famously contradictory inquest testimony of Lizzie Borden herself. Contents include: ¿Discovery of the Murders¿, ¿Police Searching the Premises¿, ¿The Borden Family¿, ¿The Search of the House¿, ¿Hiram C. Harrington¿s Story¿, ¿The Funeral¿, ¿A Reward Offered¿, ¿A Sermon on the Murders¿, etc. Read & Co. History is proudly republishing this classic work now in a brand new edition complete with the essay 'Spontaneous and Imitative Crime' by Euphemia Vale Blake.

Lyttelton Stewart Forbes Winslow MRCP (1844¿1913) was a British psychiatrist notable for his participation in the famous cases of Jack the Ripper and Georgina Weldon during the late Victorian era. First published in 1910, ¿Recollections of Forty Years¿ contains an account of Forbes' wide and varied experience as a criminal psychiatrist, describing in detail the notable cases he worked on and the people he became acquainted with. Highly recommended for those with an interest in history, true crime and criminology. Contents include: ¿Early Recollections¿, ¿Lunacy Officials I Have Met¿, ¿Personal Experiences¿, ¿Legal Experiences¿, ¿Jack the Ripper¿, ¿American Experiences¿, and ¿Reflections During Forty years¿. Other notable works by this author include: ¿Handbook For Attendants on the Insane¿ (1877), ¿Spiritualistic Madness¿ (1877), and ¿Mad Humanity: Its Forms Apparent and Obscure¿ (1898). Read & Co. History is proudly republishing this classic work now in a brand new edition complete with the introductory essay "Spontaneous and Imitative Crime" by Euphemia Vale Blake.

Assassination Of Lincoln: A History Of The Great Conspiracy Trial Of The Conspirators By A Military Commission And A Review Of The Trial Of John H. SurrattThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions.2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work.We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!

A gripping tale of murder in quiet Jaffery, New Hampshire in the waning days of World War I.

The greatest true-crime story in music history. A GLOBAL SUPERSTARIn the summer of 1980, ten years after the break-up of the Beatles, John Lennon signed with a new label, ready to record new music for the first time in years.