The a to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers (68 page)

Rees, Melvin “Sex Beast,”
119
,
198

Rendell, Ruth,
255

Resendez, Angel Maturino “Railroad Killer,”
1
,
247

Ressler, Robert K.,
13
,
35
,
53
,
74
–75,
92
,
94
,
99

Ridgway, Gary “Green River” killer,
1
,
2
,
77
,
162
–63,
257
,
260
,
295
–96

Rifkin, Joel,
13
,
227
,
253

Robinson, John E.,
130
–31

Rogers, Glen,
219

Ross, Michael,
72

Ruxton, Buck,
204

Ryan, Michael,
275

Sagawa, Issei,
43

Sanders, Ed,
220
–21

Saul, Peter,
17

Schachtman, Tom,
94

Schaefer, G. J. “Florida Sex Beast,”
204
,
256

Schmid, Charles “Pied Piper of Tucson,”
84
,
224
–26

Seda, Heriberto,
61
–62

Shawcross, Arthur,
43
,
235
–36

Sherman, Lydia,
27
–28

Sherrill, Patrick,
55

Shipman, Harold,
2
,
81
–82
,
98
,
253
,
257

Sickert, Walter,
16
,
136

The Silence of the Lambs
(book/film),
3
,
23
,
42
,
44
,
64
,
90
,
93
,
107
,
108
,
124
,
187
,
189
,
199
,
232
,
254
–55,
286

Simmons, Theodore,
216

Simpson, O. J.,
4
,
140
,
208
,
284

Sithole, Morris,
99

Smith, David,
185

Smith, George Joseph,
24
,
31
,
32

Smith, Patterson,
256

Son of Sam.
See
Berkowitz, David

Speck, Richard,
16
,
46
,
49
,
50
,
93
,
114
,
119
,
272
–75

Spisak, Frank,
244

Stanley (British surgeon),
79
,
136

Starkweather, Charles,
17
,
119
,
152
–53,
253
,
270
,
276

Staton, Rick,
16
,
49
–51

Stevenson, Robert Louis,
138
–39,
203

Stübbe, Peter,
86
,
90
,
118
,
173

Stüller, Nicklaus,
172

Suff, William Lester,
118

“Sunset Strip Slayer” (Douglas Clark),
149
–50,
198
,
258

Sutcliffe, Peter “Yorkshire Ripper,”
100
,
128
,
198
,
235
,
236
,
253
,
259

Swango, Michael,
81

Szczepinski, Vicytor,
198

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
(film),
11
,
30
,
44
,
90
,
107
,
108
,
189
,
232
–33

Thugs,
66
–67

“Toledo Slugger,”
294

Toole, Ottis Elwood,
97
,
170
,
171
,
215
,
216
,
237
,
287

Toppan, Jane,
205
,
237
,
253
,
283
–84

Tumberty, Francis,
101

Unruh, Howard,
275

Vacher, Joseph,
98
,
123
–24,
154
,
259

Versace, Gianni,
277

Vlad the Impaler,
118

Wallace, Henry Louis,
243

Ward, Liza,
153

Watts, Coral Eugene,
198
,
243

West, Fred and Rosemary,
85
,
98
,
150
–51,
179
,
253

Wilder, Christopher,
276

Wilken, Stewart,
236

Williams, Wayne,
245
–46

Wilson, Colin,
123
,
172
,
190
–91

Wood, Catherine,
205

Woodham, Luke,
144

Wuornos, Aileen,
123
,
124
,
253

Young, Graham,
193
,
229
–30

“Zebra” killings,
244

Zodiac killer,
1
,
34
,
61
–62,
119
,
130
,
161
–62,
167
,
253
,
295

Zwanziger, Anna,
125
,
229

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