THE BUTCHERS A Casebook of Macabre Crimes and Forensic Detection.

Hardback, Reprint. Which is the most effective way to dispose of a troublesome corpse? Eat it? Dip it in a vat of acid? Feed it to pigs? Turn it into sausages? Or just pop it in the furnace? All are the tried and tested methods of cold-blooded killers who compounded their original crimes of murder with deliberate and macabre mutilitations. From Catherine Hayes in 1726 to Dennis Nilsen in 1983; from Petiot's quicklime pits in Occupied Paris, to New York's infamous Albert Fish. Illus., Appendices, Select Bibliog. and Index. 242pp. 8vo. h/back.

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