Extreme Killers: Tales of the World s Most Prolific Serial Killers

The cases for this book were chosen from a master list of murderers who stretched the psychic envelope of recreational murder. Their considerable victim tallies give them the dubious distinction of being elites in the league of serial killers.

For fans of true crime, this fourth entry in the Profiles in Crime series presents history s most elite serial killers master murderers who stretched the psychic envelope and racked up the largest number of victims. Historical in scope and international in breadth, this collection of true-crime stories chronicles 15 of the most infamous extreme killers who ever lived those with the largest number of confirmed kills, in many cases more than 50. The subjects range from 15th-century French child killer Gilles de Rais, purportedly the model for the folk legend of Bluebeard, to Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Toole, who inspired the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer; to Samuel Little, America s most prolific serial killer with 60 confirmed and 93 claimed murdered, to Mikhail Popkov, dubbed The Werewolf by Russian media for having slain more than 70 women between 1992 and 2010.