All That is Wicked [electronic resource] : The 'Victorian Hannibal Lecter' and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind
Dawson, Kate Winkler2022
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Rulloff was a brilliant yet utterly amoral murderer - some have called him a 'Victorian-era Hannibal Lecter' - whose crimes spanned decades, but by 1871 he was captured, chained in a cell - a psychopath holding court while curious 19th-century 'mindhunters' got to work. From alienists to neurologists to phrenologists, each one thought he held the key to understanding the essential question: is evil born or made?Acclaimed crime historian and podcaster Kate Winkler Dawson draws on hundreds of source materials and never-before-shared historical documents to present one of the first glimpses into the mind of a serial killer - a century before the term was coined - through the scientists whose work would come to influence criminal justice for decades to come.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Icon Books, 2022
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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9781785789502
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English
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985225
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