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The Serial Killer Letters: A Penetrating Look Inside the Minds of Murderers | 
 enlarge | Author: Jennifer Furio
Creator: Jennifer Furio
Publisher: The Charles Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  69 reviews
Sales Rank: 349332
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 307
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 091478384X
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1523092273
EAN: 9780914783848
ASIN: 091478384X
Publication Date: August 28, 1998
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Product Description
Detailed uncensored letters written to a young mother from inmates on death row. Gives graphic accounts of their childhood, crimes, and sexual preferences. Includes handwriting, drawings, and other artwork by the prisoners. For clinicians and those interested in the subject. Softcover.
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 Brilliant May 4, 2008
I think this book was a brilliant idea because you finally get to hear the side of the prisoners who's voices were never heard and now you do. Now people can see the true them and what they are about! Jennifer Furio is a wonderful author because she wanted people to see the beautiful people they are!
 All surface, no substance August 17, 2005
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Ms. Furio wrote to serial killers solicting letters for a book and this is the woeful result. While some of the letters do bring out some provocative points, Ms. Furio fails to provide any substantive context. Her not including any of her own letters make her techniques suspicious.
 Read the letters, skip the commentary June 10, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is worth reading if what you want is unedited words from some of the most violent people within our nation. The correspondence from inmates, convicted serial killers like Carol Bundy, is fascinating within itself, and in my opinion, each reader should be allowed to dissect each letter and form their own opinions as to how sincere the writers are in their apologies or remorse. What I think is worth skipping in this book is Ms. Furio's analysis and commentary on such letters. She has a tendency to take a lot of what is written by her penpals at face value, and therefore creates profiles of these people as more sympathetic than they should be. Yes, Carol Bundy was a desperate woman stuck in bad relationship after bad relationship, but she helped Doug Clark kidnap, rape, and muder eight women before she shot and killed her own ex-boyfriend. Yet, here Ms. Furio tries to paint her as a victim, and with her authoritative writing tone, the average reader might be inclined to believe her without digging a little deeper. What I would love to see is just a collection of letters from criminals compiled into a book. No outside force trying to tell the readers what to think about the person. Just the firsthand materials themselves. But this book is not that.
 There are better ways to waste time January 19, 2004
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is a boring waste of time. The author doesn't include her letters, so the inmates' letters are sometimes difficult to follow. She probably chose to omit her correspondence because she hasn't always been truthful regarding her identity or her motives for writing and receiving the letters. The author could benefit from an ethics course at her local college. In the end, the reader has learned no more about these inmates than what is available about them elsewhere in much more interesting and better written books and articles. Do yourself a favor and waste your time with a less painfully boring endeavor.
Excellent book to even out a wobbly table. September 25, 2003
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
...There is very little of interest in this book. One gets the impresson that Ms. Furio sent the same "opening letter" to masses of multiple killers and published anyone who responded more than 3 or 4 times. The book is poorly written, horribly edited, and worse - not even entertainingly voyeuristic.
Almost all of the serial killers in the book claim their innocence and want financial help in funding their appeal. The only story of any interest was from David Gore of Florida. However, his letters were so disgusting that I questioned the need to even put them into print. I wondered about the families that had to read his vivid recollections of his crimes.
I would recommend this book to anyone seeking a book to lull them into sleep, to throw at howling alley cats in heat, or to smash cockroaches. If you want a book to read and entertain you for any period of time - pass on this one.
--Kathryn White-Fidram
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