Serial Killers and Prostitutes (True Crime Series, Volume
1), by award-winning criminologist and Ripperologist, R. Barri Flowers, taps
into the bestselling author’s expertise on serial murderers and sex trade
workers in offering an in-depth look at four noteworthy cases in which the two
worlds collide.
Jack the Ripper, the unidentified Victorian serial killer of
at least five prostitutes in the dangerous section of London, known as
Whitechapel, in 1888. The Ripper, who slashed and horribly mutilated his sex
worker victims, set the tone for diabolical, vicious serial slayers to follow
for all time.
Aileen Wuornos was a white American prostitute, who doubled
as a serial killer in murdering seven johns in Florida between 1989 and 1990.
She claimed they tried to or succeeded in raping her during the course of
prostituting herself. In the process, Wuornos ended up being apropos for this
book as a sex worker and serial predator.
Kendall Francois was an African American serial killer,
dubbed the “Poughkeepsie Killer,” who strangled to death eight streetwalker prostitutes
in Poughkeepsie, New York, between 1996 and 1998. Francois used his own
residence as a horrifying house of homicides and burial ground.
The Edmonton Serial Killer represented one or more mostly
unidentified serial killers who targeted and murdered dozens of prostitutes in
the city of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, between the mid-1970s and the early
2000s, and possibly beyond that. The sex trade worker victims were often picked
up in the city’s red-light district stroll, murdered, and dumped in various
killing fields in rural areas around Edmonton.
As bonus material, the book will also chronicle the infamous
and colorful 19th century New Orleans prostitute and serial killer, Mary Jane
Jackson, and modern-day American serial killers of prostitutes, Walter Ellis,
nicknamed the “North Side Strangler,” and Vincent Johnson, dubbed the “Brooklyn
Strangler.”
Available in eBook and print from Amazon. Buy today!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N2ITEGS/ref=nav_timeline_asin?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
