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    Serial Killer Case Files Volume 2: Serial Killer Case Files
    Serial Killer Case Files Volume 2: Serial Killer Case Files
    Serial Killer Case Files Volume 2: Serial Killer Case Files
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    Serial Killer Case Files Volume 2: Serial Killer Case Files

    By Robert Keller

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    18 Shocking True Crime Stories of the World's Worst Serial Killers. Included in this volume;

    Irina Gaidamachuk: A savage killer whose seventeen vicious murders earned her the nickname, "Satan in a Skirt."  

    John Joubert: Snatched three young boys off the street in broad daylight, then tortured and stabbed them to death. 
      
    John Reginald Christie: This outwardly respectable middle-aged man held a deadly secret – he was a necrophile and the murderer of at least seven women. 

    Gholomreza Kordiyeh: The 'Teheran Vampire' lured his victims by posing as a taxi driver then raped them, stabbed them and set them on fire. 
      
    Aileen Wuornos: Female serial killer who gunned down seven men and was mythologized in the Academy Award-winning movie, "Monster."

       
    David and Catherine Birnie: Depraved Australian couple who kidnapped, sexually tortured and murdered four young women. 

    Michel Fourniret: Sex fiend who was obsessed with raping virgins. Engaged the help of his wife to kidnap, assault and murder young girls.  


    Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono: Two murderous cousins, working together to unleash a reign of terror on the women of Los Angeles.

    Plus 10 more, rivetting true murder cases. Scroll up to grab your copy now.

         
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Keller
    Release dateMar 20, 2017
    ISBN9781386038429
    Serial Killer Case Files Volume 2: Serial Killer Case Files
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    Robert Keller

    Bestselling true crime author Robert Keller first developed an interest in the subject when, as a teenager, he accidentally checked out a book from the library thinking it was a vampire novel. It was, in fact, the true story of British "vampire killer” John Haigh. Thus a lifelong fascination with true crime was born, launching a writing career than has produced more than fifty books over forty years. Mr. Keller’s works include the acclaimed Monsters series, an exploration into the lives and crimes of the world’s most deadly psychopaths.       Find out more at www.robertkellerauthor.com  

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      Serial Killer Case Files Volume 2 - Robert Keller

      18 Truly Horrific Serial Murder Cases, including;

      The lives and murderous careers of 18 of the world’s most terrifying serial killers, including;

      Irina Gaidamachuk: A savage killer whose seventeen vicious murders earned her the nickname, Satan in a Skirt. 

      John Joubert: Snatched three young boys off the street in broad daylight, then tortured and stabbed them to death.  

      John Reginald Christie: This outwardly respectable middle-aged man held a deadly secret – he was a necrophile and the murderer of at least seven women.

      Robert Lee Yates Jr.: Spokane prostitute killer who, for a time, rivaled the Green River Killer in terms of his body count.

      Peter Dupas: Vicious killer who was convicted of slashing and stabbing three women to death. Suspected of at least three more murders.

      Lyndon F. Pace: A particularly heartless rape slayer who targeted helpless elderly women. 

      Gholomreza Kordiyeh: The ‘Teheran Vampire’ lured his victims by posing as a taxi driver then raped them, stabbed them and set them on fire.  

      Aileen Wuornos: Female serial killer who gunned down seven men and was mythologized in the Academy Award-winning movie, Monster.

      Arnfinn Nesset: A murderous hospital administrator who poisoned his elderly patients with a drug derived from curare.

      Charles Schmid: known as the Pied Piper of Tucson, Schmid had a following of teenaged devotees who would do anything for him - even commit murder.

      Timothy Spencer: A vicious sex slayer who was the first US aerial killer to be convicted by DNA evidence. 

      David and Catherine Birnie: Depraved Australian couple who kidnapped, sexually tortured and murdered four young women.

      Michel Fourniret: Sex fiend who was obsessed with raping virgins. Engaged the help of his wife to kidnap, assault and murder young girls. 

      Stephen Nash: A man with a deep-seated hatred against humanity, Nash massacred anyone who crossed his path, racking up a toll of eight victims.

      Arnold Karl Sodeman: The Schoolgirl Killer murdered four adolescent victims, raping and then strangling them to death.

      Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono: Two murderous cousins, working together to unleash a reign of terror on the women of Los Angeles. 

      Willem van Eijk: Freed from a prison term for killing two women in the 70’s, van Eijk was soon back at his bloody work, claiming three more victims. 

      Albert Fish: This frail, grandfatherly old man carried a deadly secret. He was a cannibal and torturer of young children.

      Irina Gaidamachuk

      Satan in a Skirt

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      Female serial killers are not nearly as commonplace as their male counterparts. Where they do exist, they are most often murder-for-profit killers who target friends and relatives for inheritances or insurance payouts. Their weapon of choice is most often poison. 

      There are, of course, exceptions. Aileen Wuornos, perhaps the most infamous female serial killer of all time, shot her male victims; Dana Sue Gray, a former fashion model with a shopping obsession, bludgeoned the elderly women she targeted; Judy Buenano used several methods of mayhem, even attempting to kill one of her victims with a bomb. None of these femme fatales, however, compares to Irina Gaidamachuk, a Russian psychopath so brutal that she was dubbed, Satan in a Skirt.

      Irina Gaidamachuk was born in the town of Nyagan, Russia, in 1972. Her parents were both alcoholics who often left the child unfed and scantily clothed against the harsh Russian weather. As a result, Irina was eventually taken away and made a ward of the state. By then, however, the damage had already been done. Irina had developed a taste for alcohol by drinking from her parents’ bottles after they passed out. Not yet a teenager, she was already an alcoholic. It was an affliction that would plague her throughout her life and lead her eventually down the path to serial murder.

      Irina remained in state care until she was 18 years old. Released in the early 1990s, she moved to the city of Krasnoufimsk, in the Sverdlovsk Oblast, where she met and subsequently married a man named Yuri. They would have two children together, but the union was far from harmonious. The couple fought constantly about Irina’s drinking, which seemed to get worse with each passing year. When Yuri gave her housekeeping money, Irina would spend it on vodka. He’d arrive home from work to find her passed out, his children unfed and unsupervised. Eventually, he’d had enough and cut her off. From then on, he kept a tight rein on the purse strings and gave his wife only what was required on a day-to-day basis. He also demanded a receipt for any purchases that she made.

      Yuri Gaidamachuk had, however, made a poor assessment of the situation, seriously undervaluing his wife’s level of desperation. Irina was, to all extents and purposes, a junkie. Her drug of choice just happened to be vodka. And like any addict, desperate for a fix and short on funds, she was prepared to go to any lengths to satisfy her craving. But where most addicts might turn to petty theft or prostitution, Irina came up with a far more diabolical plan. Over a period of eight years, from 2002 to 2010, the attractive, forty-year-old mother-of-two embarked on a killing spree. Seventeen elderly women, aged between 61 and 89 years old, would die at her hands, all of them savagely bludgeoned to death in their homes.

      Why, exactly, Gaidamachuk chose such an extreme method to finance her addiction is unknown. More than likely her motive went beyond the money she gained by robbing her victims. Perhaps there was some residual anger left over from her harsh upbringing, perhaps she was symbolically striking out at her abusive parents.

      Whatever the true motive, Gaidamachuk soon developed a simple but effective M.O. After identifying a potential victim, she’d track the woman for days, noting her routine. She’d find out when the woman left home, who she visited, and whether anyone called on her. Then, having developed an understanding of her target’s movements, Gaidmachuk would wait until the woman was out and then leave a handwritten note on her door with the message: At 11 o’clock a social worker will call. When she later knocked on the door at the appointed hour, she usually had no problem convincing the target to let her in. Once inside, she’d turn on the hapless pensioner and bludgeon her to death with an ax or a hammer.

      With the victim lying dead on the floor, Gaidamachuk would raid the apartment. She was less interested in valuables than in cash, since valuables had to be sold and might, therefore, leave a trail. Often, she’d set a fire before fleeing, probably in an attempt to cover up evidence of the crime. None of these blazes took hold.

      And the pickings were slim, just about $20 per murder. But that didn’t seem to discourage Irina at all. In fact, as we have already noted, money might well have been only a secondary motive. Irina Gaidamachuk was carrying around a lot of rage, and that rage was evident in the overkill she inflicted on her victims.

      Interestingly, it was the very brutality of the killings that helped Gaidamachuk avoid detection for so long. When reports came in of a well-dressed blond woman seen in the vicinity of several crime scenes, the police refused to believe that this was relevant. A female was not capable of such depravity, they insisted. Later, they’d tweak that assessment, developing a theory that the killer was a man who disguised himself as a woman in order to gain access to his victims’ apartments. It was only when a victim survived and stated categorically that her attacker had been female that investigators began to entertain that possibility.

      A massive investigation was launched during which the police questioned over 3,000 potential witnesses. But, even then, they arrested the wrong woman. Twenty-nine-year-old Irina Valeyeva was taken into custody and coerced into a confession. Irina Gaidamachuk, meanwhile, remained at large. 

      And Gaidamachuk might have avoided detection indefinitely had she not fallen into the same trap as countless serial killers before her. Having outwitted the police for eight years, she became convinced of her own infallibility and got sloppy in her planning. On a whim, she decided to kill a woman who was known to her, 81-year-old Alexandra Povaritsyna. She also varied her M.O., abandoning her social worker ruse and gaining access to Povaritsyna’s home by offering to do some painting work. When Povaritsyna turned up bludgeoned to death in May 2010, neighbors were quick to point the finger at Gaidamachuk, who had been seen entering and leaving the victim’s apartment. Gaidamachuk was arrested soon after. 

      Gaidamachuk was subjected to hours of questioning before she eventually confessed to killing Alexandra Povaritsyna. Her motive, she said, was to steal money for vodka. But, by now, the police knew that it went much deeper than that. Fingerprints lifted from several of the murder scenes had been matched to Gaidamachuk. Loath though investigators were to believe it, they had a female serial killer on their hands, quite possibly the most brutal in Russian history. 

      Irina Gaidamachuk was eventually indicted on 346 charges, including 17 counts of murder. Sent for a barrage of psychiatric tests, she was declared mentally competent and committed for trial in June 2012. The outcome of that trial would provoke widespread outrage. Although found guilty, Gaidamachuk was sentenced to just 20 years in prison, a little over a year for each of her victims.

      The maximum jail term for women in Russia is 25 years, the

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