Sons of Cain (2018) - Peter Vronsky
Category: Autobiography & Biographies
Narrator: Unknown
Tags: Autobiography & Biographies, True Crime
From the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why we are drawn to their horrifying crimes., Before the term was coined in 1981, there were no serial killers. There were only monsters - killers society first understood as werewolves, vampires, ghouls and witches or, later, Hitchcockian psychos., In Sons of Cain - a book that fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized true crime - investigative historian Peter Vronsky examines our understanding of serial killing from its prehistoric anthropological evolutionary dimensions in the pre-civilization era (c. 15,000 BC) to today. Delving further back into human history and deeper into the human psyche than Serial Killers - Vronskys 2004 book, which has been called the definitive history of the phenomenon of serial murder - he focuses strictly on sexual serial killers: thrill killers who engage in mu
