Serial murder and media circuses
"The Axman of New Orleans specialized in killing grocers of Italian descent in the 1910s, apparently to promote jazz music. Dorothea Puente was a little old landlady who murdered her tenants, but kept cashing their government checks. the Manson family terrorized California in the 1960s, as did the Hillside Stranglers a decade later. Twelve serial murder cases, occurring in the eight decades between the 1890s and 1990s, had one thing in common: significant presence of the mass media. This book examines these cases, and the way the media became involved in the investigations and trials of each."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 2006
Praeger Publishers, Westport, Conn., 2006