Dark Profiles: Biographies of Serial Killers
By Javier Soto
Length3h 15m
About this audiobook
Dark Profiles: Biographies of Serial Killers offers sixty detailed profiles of the world’s most infamous serial killers. The book examines not just their crimes, but the psychological issues, obsessions, and social factors that shaped them. Names like Edmund Kemper, Luis Alfredo Garavito, Leonarda Cianciulli, and others are covered with clinical detachment, not glorification.
This revised edition deepens the psychological analysis and sharpens the narrative, challenging readers to consider what pushes a person past the limits of humanity. It asks where responsibility ends and mental illness begins, using facts and insights from psychology, sociology, and history.
Dark Profiles is not sensationalist; it is a stark look at how killers are made and what their existence says about society. Sixty chilling faces look back from these pages—proof that some monsters walk among us.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (5)
GenreTrue Crime
Length3 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 8, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
21. Ted Bundy - The Charm of the Abyss
32. Jeffrey Dahmer - The Milwaukee Cannibal
43. John Wayne Gacy - The Clown of Death
54. Richard Ramirez - The Night Prowler
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65. Dennis Rader - Bind, Torture, Kill
76. Gary Ridgway - The Green River Killer
87. Aileen Wuornos - The Manslayer
98. Zodiac - The Coded Ghost
109. Charles Manson - The Prophet of the End of the World
1110. Jack the Ripper - The First Ghost of Urban Horror
1211. Ed Gein - The Butcher of Plainfield
1312. David Berkowitz - Son of Sam
1413. Richard Kuklinski - The Iceman
1514. Andrei Chikatilo - The Rostov Butcher
1615. Harold Shipman - Doctor Death
1716. Albert Fish - The Cannibal Monster
1817. H. H. Holmes - The Architect of Horror
1918. Pedro Alonso López - The Monster of the Andes
2019. Dennis Nilsen - The Muswell Hill Killer
2120. Alexander Pichushkin - The Chessboard Assassin
2221. Robert Hansen - The Butcher of Anchorage
2322. John Christie - The Rillington Place Strangler
2423. Gary Heidnik - The Butcher of the Philadelphia Basement
2524. Rodney Alcala - The Dating Game Killer
2625. Yang Xinhai - The Monster Killer
2726. John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo - The Washington Snipers
2827. Robert Yates - The Spokane Killer
2928. John George Haigh - The Acid Bath Murderer
3029. Ottis Toole and Henry Lee Lucas - The Couple from Hell
3130. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley - The Moorland Killers
3231. Fred and Rose West - The Butchers of Cromwell Street
3332. Joseph James DeAngelo - The Golden State Killer
3433. Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate - The Bloody Getaway
3534. Donald Harvey - The Angel of Death
3635. Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka - The Ken and Barbie of Crime
3736. Richard Angelo - The Angel of Death
3837. Danny Rolling - The Gainesville Ripper
3938. Alexander Spesivtsev - The Chess Freak
4039. David Parker Ray - The Toy Box Killer
4140. John Edward Robinson - The Internet Serial Killer
4241. Israel Keyes - The Faceless Predator
4342. Randy Kraft - The Scorecard Killer
4443. Kenneth McDuff - The Beast of Broomstick
4544. Robert Pickton - The Pig Ranch Killer
4645. Marcel Petiot - The Doctor of Horror
4746. Wolfgang Schmidt - The Beast of Beelitz
4847. Serhiy Tkach - Butcher of Dnipropetrovsk
4948. Charles Sobhraj - The Serpent
5049. Christopher Wilder - The Beauty Queen Killer
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