Hunting Humans

Description for HUNTING HUMANS: INSIDE THE MINDS OF MASS MURDERERS by Elliott Leyton:

On a late summer day, teen-aged Edmund Kemper killed his grandmother. The future mass murder told the police, "I just wondered how it would feel to shoot Grandma."

In this shocking, searching book, noted anthropologist Dr. Elliott Layton takes us into the minds, motivations and methods of six serial and mass murders, and looks briefly at twenty others. Carefully detailing their sprees of rape, carnage, torture and murder, Dr. Leyton explores the gruesome, savage acts of Kemper and:

*Ted Bundy---the "Young Republic" whose total number of victims nationwide may never be known

*David Berkowitz---The "Son Of Sam" killer who terrorized New York City

*Albert Desalvo, "The Boston Strangler", who stopped killing as suddenly as he began

*Charles Starkweather---who rampaged across Nebraska with his fourteen-year-old girlfriend

*David Essex---who grew up in a happy, "normal" home, went berserk in New Orleans, and kept the entire police force at bay

With th=orough analysis of their crimes, interviews and family histories, Dr. Leyton goes beyond the horrific to find startling similarities among these men---and a controversial explanation of why more and more people in our society are going out...HUNTING HUMANS