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This was an okay true crime book, but I wasn't impressed with it as I thought I would be. All of the murders happened around the turn of the century and 90% of the killers I had never heard of before. There was some detail, but nothing extensive. Only giving it two stars.
 
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BookNookRetreat7 | Jul 25, 2022 |
This was a good true crime read! I did not know about this serial killer. He wasn't as well known as some, but that doesn't mean he was less dangerous. I gave it a five star read as it moved at a fast pace and I finished it within two days.
 
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BookNookRetreat7 | 1 andere bespreking | Jul 25, 2022 |
I read this book via an Amazon-US KINDLE Unlimited download.

Most of us have either seen the Broadway musical or the film Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. In the story Mr. Todd, a barber, in order to rob his victims by slitting their throats while in his barber’s chair, and then pulling a lever which causes his victims to fall backwards through a trap door into the basement. Once he gets their possessions his cohort, Mrs. Lovett, takes their bodies and turns their flesh into meat pies and then selling them to her unsuspecting customers in the pie shop she owns.

This fictional story is only an example of what you’ll get reading about the 11 real-life depraved individuals who murdered their innocent victims solely to obtain their bodies for various nefarious reasons. Alex J. Mengel for example needed the scalps of his female victims so he could use the scalps and the hair attached as a wig for his disguise as a woman.

Age doesn’t matter, take 14-year-old Sandy Charles, who used several strips of his victim to make a potion so he could fly. And then you’ve got a senior citizen couple, Faye and Ray Copeland, who made quilts out of their victims’ clothing.

The depravity of these real individuals goes beyond the well-known cases of necrophiliacs, individuals who desire to have a sexual relationship with their victim’s corpses. Once their victims are dead, the corpses are used to make several everyday practical items and a variety of foods.

Unlike those individuals who commit murders for revenge or simply monetary gains, these individuals seem to commit their murders for the sheer sport of it. For having unsettled while enlightening the minds of his readers about this kind of individual, I’ve decided to give this book and its author 5 STARS.
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MyPenNameOnly | Feb 11, 2018 |
The book was short and sweet! Straight to the point, without a lot of extra details. It was basically an overview/summary of the Spokane Killer and his victims. It was very interesting and made me want to know more about Yates and his crimes. But this book was good, even though it was so short. It was very informative.
 
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BonnieKernene | May 9, 2017 |

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