Jack Rosewood

This book is definitely not for the faint of heart especially if you can't handle reading about a people that have molested children, drugged and raped young men and young boys, butched/cannibalized their corpses or graphic depictions of animal dissection, torture, mutilation of animals and people.

Trigger Warning: animal abuse, dissection of animals, graphic description of the drugging, rape, butchering/mutilation of corpses of men & young boys corpses, cannibalization of their corpses.
I have a dark & vivid imagination so it made me feel physically sick to read exactly what he did to his victims.
The way this book is written, it like the author has never heard of the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and the way he simplifies the horrific crimes he committed as if any normal and intelligent human being wouldn't understand it's annoying and the author repeats himself a lot.

It is clear from a young age that Jeffrey Dahmer was obsessed/fascinated by death, dissecting animals he wasn't going to grow up and become a normal person in society, he clearly had issues, with "fitting in" socialising, bullying and due to his morbid interests including collecting roadkill, dissecting animals that his interest in "seeing the insides and how it works" had a darker meaning. He had dark fantasies from a young age, due to spending a lot of time isolated or alone, he was left to his own devices and over time he developed, very dark, disturbing fantasies.
From a young age Jeffrey Dahmer was always fascinated by dead animals roadkill, dissection of animals,is father taught him how to bleach or "clean bones" He took home a piglet's head and dissolved the flesh in acid so he could keep the skull.
He dissected a pig at school which he kept and took home, he collected roadkill and took it home to dissect it, he put a dead cat in acid to see what would happen.
His father was a scientist so he taught him about animal dissection and bleaching bones in formaldehyde.
These were skills he would later use to his advantage on his 17 victims which included (13-14 year old boys) that he molested or drugged and raped.

His M.O. (Modus Operandi or his motive for killing) was control/lust, he was a sexually motivated serial killer & he wanted to lure, control, own, use, possess and consume his victims "so they would be apart of him forever" He placed the severed heads/skulls of his victims on his shrine. He practiced witchcraft.
Jeffrey Dahmer was a gay man (which his dad would condemn and hate him for, he would expect him to do conversion therapy) he tried to appear as normal and ordinary as possible, but he was very similar in behaviour to Ted Bundy, he was manipulative and he used it to his advantage many times to get himself out of trouble.
Jeffrey was very charming, very shy, reserved, mild mannered, anti-social loner, he was good at luring people into a false sense of security before drugging his victims, raping them while they were unconscious, removing their skin, muscles from the bones, then smashing the bones to a powdery dust, flushing it down the toilet or scattered in the woods behind his house where he lived with his family.
He decapitated his victims and kept the genitals in his fridge/refrigerator till he eventually literally ran out of space, but he would consume the heart of other body parts of his victims, his favourites were the biceps, heart, head and genitals.
Jeffrey usually went to gay bars or bath houses until he was kicked out and banned from going to the bathhouses he would frequently go to a gay bar on the prowl for his victims.
Some of his victims were possibly male prostitutes that were underage, some were not gay or only decided to go back to Jeffrey's house because he "offered to pay them for a nude photoshoot" which was a ruse and never happened.
Some of his victims were in financial strife so they interested in going with Jeffrey because they needed the money.
Jeffrey Dahmer was a sexually motivated, predatory, necrophile (they have the sexual attraction & desire to have sexwith a corpse and to also consume their flesh and blood), he was a cannibal hence the moniker "The Milwaukee Cannibal"

There were a multitude of things that made Jeffrey Dahmer became who he was, positive and negative influences, his parents were both a narcissist, neglectful, too wrapped up in their own world to even notice Jeffrey Dahmer and his brother David.
A dysfunctional household, a parent that is emotionally & mentally unstable, frequent violent arguments, his father had the intention to start fire and hurt people that bullied him because he was shy.
It's not hard to understand why he grew up the way he did, his upbringing affected him negatively, if he had friends, or his parents spent time with him, he probably would have grown up different to who he became, but I still think he would have had dark, disturbing fantasies.
Jeffrey Dahmer was tried in court, found sane and fit to stand trial, convicted of his crimes and he was sent to prison, where he was later murdered.
He was murdered due to the shrine of his victim's severed heads/skulls he had in his apartment, for making his food look like his victims, he did have a grotesque and cruel sense of humour.
The other prisoners were obviously aware of his crimes, they were disgusted and disturbed by him and his crimes.… (más)

This was an interesting read as I had never heard of John George Haigh before I picked up this book.

John George Haigh was considered a serial killer even though he didn't commit quite as many crimes as some prolific serial killers from the past. He did kill six people, but what is interesting about his crimes is how he tried to get rid of the evidence. He thought by using sulfuric acid that he would be able to get by with murder as he thought that the acid would melt the bones of his victims. Also he did not commit the crimes because he loved to kill, he committed the crimes so that he could wipe out the victims bank accounts and then use their money to live the good life.

I was impressed how the authorities went about investigating him and how they were able to catch him in the end. The author, Jack Rosewood, once again lays everything out on the table and lets us readers sift through it. Three stars for this one.… (más)

I liked this book pretty well as it is mostly just a trivia and fact book highlighting different aspects of all kinds of serial killers. I didn't realize it wasn't like "regular" true crime as I thought it was going to have maybe a different chapter for different serial killers, but it is not like that. The format is more like a summary list of different things and interesting facts about serial killers from the late 1800's to modern times.

Very informative facts of the serial killers and some of the serial killers listed I have not heard of before, which makes me want to read some of their books. The author, Jack Rosewood, has thrown in some serial killers that he has written about and has links to his website to get some of the books. Three stars on this one.

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This was a great true crime book!

This was the first time that I had read anything by this author and I was impressed with his writing style. I have never heard of this killer before and he was supposedly a normal person.

Cary Stayner had everyone around him fooled letting them think he was normal until he went on his killing spree, sending shock waves through the community where he lived. This is definitely a five star read and I will be adding this author to my true crime authors.… (más)