Authors: Stephen G. Michaud,Roy Hazelwood
Tags: #True Crime, #Murder, #Serial Killers
Harvey Glatman, the Lonely Hearts Killer—A prototypical modern sexual criminal, Glatman in the 1960s was a dark mystery to Roy and everyone else in law enforcement.
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Fear—Glatman’s victims believed he was photographing them for detective magazine covers.
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Sexual bondage—The Lonely Hearts Killer took painstaking care with his ropes and knots.
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Death in the desert—After securing the women, Glatman strangled them. Later he led investigators to their bodies.
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Macabre victims—Roy’s study of aberrant behavior began with a fellowship to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. The cutting and stabbing syllabus he wrote there included this bizarre suicide by ballpoint pen.
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Dangerous solo sex—Roy’s first project at the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit was his unique, comprehensive study of autoerotic fatalities.
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Jon Barry Simonis in custody—Roy and fellow profiler Ken Lanning spent nine hours debriefing the Ski Mask Rapist inside Louisiana’s Angola Prison.
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Nikia Gilbreath—Her murder stumped investigators for nearly four months.
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A close-knit family—Nikia with her father and walking her daughter, Amber, with her mother-in-law.
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The damning evidence—Investigators discovered approximately $3,000 worth of plastic-bagged lingerie inside Ray Ward’s partially built house, as well as part of Nikia’s swimming suit and the Gilbreaths’ missing comforter.
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Bob Rhoades as a sex slave—A class sexual sadist, Rhoades tried gradually to destroy Debra Davis.
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