All That is Wicked
The 'Victorian Hannibal Lecter' and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
All That is Wicked
The 'Victorian Hannibal Lecter' and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind
About this book
'A master-class in bringing history to life, in all its creepy, twisted glory' - Karen Kilgariff, co-host of My Favorite Murder podcast 'Every true crime fan will be riveted by Kate's master story-telling of this unforgettable tale' - Paul Holes, author of Unmasked: Crime Scenes, Cold Cases and My Hunt for the Golden State Killer The thrilling story of Edward Rulloff - a serial murderer who was called 'too intelligent to be killed' - and the array of 19th-century investigators who were convinced his brain held the key to finally understanding the criminal mind. Rulloff was a brilliant yet utterly amoral murderer - some have called him a 'Victorian-era Hannibal Lecter' - whose crimes spanned decades, but by 1871 he was captured, chained in a cell - a psychopath holding court while curious 19th-century 'mindhunters' got to work. From alienists to neurologists to phrenologists, each one thought he held the key to understanding the essential question: is evil born or made?Acclaimed crime historian and podcaster Kate Winkler Dawson draws on hundreds of source materials and never-before-shared historical documents to present one of the first glimpses into the mind of a serial killer - a century before the term was coined - through the scientists whose work would come to influence criminal justice for decades to come.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Author’s Note
- PROLOGUE: A Criminal Mind
- CHAPTER 1: The Author
- CHAPTER 2: Between the Lakes
- CHAPTER 3: The Newspaperman
- CHAPTER 4: The Greek Scholar
- CHAPTER 5: The Educator
- CHAPTER 6: The Alienist
- CHAPTER 7: The Phrenologists
- CHAPTER 8: The Neurologists
- EPILOGUE: A Cautionary Tale
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- Also by Kate Winkler Dawson
- Copyright