Extreme Killers: Tales of the World's Most Prolific Serial Killers (Profiles in Crime #4)

By: Michael Newton

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Synopsis: 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.

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