My Life Among The Serial Killers: Inside The Minds Of The World's Most Notorious Murderers

Over the course of twenty-five years, Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than eighty serial killers around the world. What she learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious criminals known to man. Judging by appearances, Dr. Morrison has an ordinary life in the suburbs of a major city with a husband, two children, and a thriving psychiatric clinic. But she is one of the country's leading experts on serial killers, having spent as many as four hundred hours alone with depraved murderers, digging deep into their psyches. In My Life Among the Serial Killers, Dr. Morrison relates her experiences with infamous killers including Richard Otto Macek, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, Wayne Williams, Bobby Joe Long, Fred and Rosemary West, and Marcelo Costa de Andrade. She has studied their diaries, evaluated crime scenes, testified at trials, and interviewed victims' families and killers' relatives to understand their environments. She explores serial killers throughout history, from Gilles de Rais to Albert Fish, aiming to uncover why they kill, how they select victims, and how to prevent future crimes.