Notable Reprobates

About the Book

Notable Reprobates examines the pathological phenomena of serial killing and mass murder. It provides detailed case studies of notorious multi-murderers Elizabeth Bathory, H. H. Holmes, Belle Gunness, Ted Bundy, and Joseph J. DeAngelo Jr. Chapter 6 explains DNA and other modern methods of crime detection. The final section deals with heinous political regimes that have resorted to serial mass murder as a matter of policy, including Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, Mao Zedong’s Red China, and Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge Movement in Cambodia. In the final analysis, criminal despots such as Stalin, Hitler, and Mao were exponentially worse for humanity than the likes of John Wayne Gacy, Charles Manson, and Jeffrey Dahmer.

About the Author

Joseph Howard Tyson graduated from LaSalle University in 1969 with a B.A. in Philosophy, took graduate courses in English at Pennsylvania State University, then served in the U. S. Marine Corps. He has worked in the insurance industry since 1972, and lives in the Philadelphia area. He and his wife have four children and three grandchildren. Tyson has contributed several articles to The Schuylkill Valley Journal. His previous nonfiction books include Penn’s Luminous City (2005), Madame Blavatsky Revisited (2006), Hitler’s Mentor: Dietrich Eckart (2008), The Surreal Reich (2010, World War II Leaders (2011), and Fifty-Seven Years of Russian Madness (2015).