Critical Compendium » Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer, by John Leake
Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer, by John Leake

“Serial killers are localists. They murder within their chosen patch — a red-light district, a city quarter — and tend not to travel beyond it. Changing location means recoding the method; learning a new vernacular of murder. It also increases the risk of detection: an out-of-towner is more likely to be remembered from a crime scene. Jack Unterweger, the subject of John Leake’s bleak book, had no anxieties about being remembered, nor about exporting his method.” Read the review at the New York Times.

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