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Serial killers of the '70s : behind a notorious decade of death / Jane Fritsch.

by Fritsch, Jane, author.

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New York : Sterling, [2020]

Serial murderers -- Case studies.

Serial murder investigation -- Case studies.

Serial murderers -- United States -- Case studies.

Serial murder investigation -- United States -- Case studies.

Nineteen seventies.

9781454939382 (paperback) :

1454939389 (paperback)

Profiles in crime series.

xii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Introduction -- Juan Corona -- Dean Allen Corll, Elmer Wayne Henley, and David Owen Brooks -- Rodney Alcala -- Edmund Kemper -- David Berkowitz -- Ted Bundy -- Vaughn Greenwood -- Herbert Mullin -- The Zebra killers -- Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono -- Patrick Wayne Kearney -- Coral Eugene Watts -- William Bonin -- John Wayne Gacy -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Excerpt from People v. Superior Court (Corona), 30 Cal.3d 193, November 16, 1981 -- Appendix 2. Excerpt from Rodney Alcala's appeal before the United States Court of Appeals, argued February 6, 2003 -- Appendix 3. Excerpt from John Wayne Gacy's appeal in the United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, argued March 4, 1993.

To many, the legacy of the 1970s is disco, Watergate and the oil crisis. But in many ways, terrifying serial killers helped define the 1970s. Fritsch provides profiles of notorious as well as lesser-known murderers of that decade. -- adapted from back cover

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