The Arbor House Treasury of True Crime
by John Dunning
Arbor House, 1981
Heavy proof stuff here. This unassuming tome is a huge omnibus of reprinted true crime stories, mostly from Germany and France. It is also perhaps the most f'ed up book I have ever read. Murder, incest, rape, incest, serial killing, incest, and incest. All written in a flat reporting style, with some narrative conceits from the investigators. The twisted lives people led outside of their crimes were even more disturbing.
Interestingly, it describes a fetal abduction in Bosnia from 1970, which is four years earlier than the first listed in Wikipedia.
I had this book sometime in my youth - it must have been high school, since I knew Colin Wilson from the Outsider and I wasn't that pretentious until at least sophomore year.
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