MICHAEL COWTON
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MURDERS THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD
Some of the most sadistic murderers who ever lived carried out their horrifying and brutal crimes in the 1970s. During that decade the public imagination would be haunted by infamous nicknames such as Killer Clown, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler and Yorkshire Ripper. They were people who committed appalling crimes, which often included rape, torture and strangulation. People like Ted Bundy, a handsome, articulate former law student who did not otherwise conform to the typical psychopath stereotype. Or David Berkowitz — a former soldier who revelled in the act of shooting his victims dead and calmly walking away. The police fought a primitive war against these coldblooded killers without the benefit of national computer databases or DNA evidence, which would not become available until the mid-1980s. The number of serial killers stalking the western world seemed to rise inexorably as the 70s went on and the detectives often seemed powerless to stop them. In Murders That Shocked the World — Cases from the 1970s, author Michael Cowton investigates the decade’s very worst murders and murderers.
MICHAEL COWTON