It was an ordinary semi-detached with grubby walls and net curtains. A young man answered the door to police officers with a search warrant, intent on digging up the back garden. The house was 25 Cromwell Street; the man the eldest son of Fred and Rose West.
The world's most depraved murderers were somebody's neighbour, someone else's father. Why did they do it? What turns a person into a killer? And why are we fascinated by them? Enter the dark world of true crime ...
With 19 chilling chapters on such notorious killers as Harold Shipman and Charles Manson, lesser-known murderers Albert DeSalvo and Dennis Nilsen, and the massacres at Hungerford and Columbine, this compendium features a deadly cast of the most barbaric killers of our times.