Word: serial
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...November 2001, HUPD officials traced calls from a so-called “serial whisperer,” infamous for phoning female undergraduates in the early morning hours to tell them he was “crazy about...
...eternal laws of the genre that every fictional serial killer must have a grisly idiosyncrasy. Even Cormac McCarthy, a novelist to whose name the phrase "American master" frequently attaches itself, must bow to this rule. Thus Chigurh, the coldly philosophical fiend of No Country for Old Men (Knopf; 309 pages), McCarthy's first book in seven years, carries a signature weapon, a handheld pneumatic stun gun of the kind used on cattle in slaughterhouses. And it's not just distinctive! It baffles investigators, and it's handy for breaking locks. It's like a Swiss Army knife for psychos...
...Country for Old Men is not merely a serial-killer novel, although it works perfectly well as one. In fact, it begins in an entirely different genre, when a good-hearted mug named Moss stumbles onto the remains of a drug deal gone bad: six bodies out in the desert and a satchel full of $2.4 million in very hot cash. After some mental hand wringing, Moss takes the money and runs, knowing that whoever set up the deal will probably come after both it and him. "It's a mess, aint it Sheriff?" a local deputy says...
CONFESSED. DENNIS RADER, 60, serial killer whose self-coined nickname was BTK, for "bind, torture, kill"; to the first-degree murders of 10 people between 1974 and '91; in a courtroom in Wichita, Kans. In a chillingly matter-of-fact narrative, the former Boy Scout leader and church-council president recounted how he had comforted one of his victims by getting her a glass of water and provided a pillow for another, then killed them. Because Kansas had no death penalty at the time of the killings, Rader will probably be sentenced to life in prison...
...booming, animated commentary. He became something more than legendary to those who followed the sport. Said one admirer: "I don't know what God looks like, but I know what He sounds like." In 1977 his daughter, Cyra McFadden, created a literary stir with her first novel. The Serial, a wry look at some laid-back suburban lives in California's Marin County. There was not much in this book, frankly, to attract die-hard rodeo fans. On the other hand, it seems fair to assume that most of those who bought and enjoyed The Serial had never heard...