Talking with Serial Killers: A chilling study of the world's most evil people

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Bestselling writer and criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee turns his attention to a new kind of victim: the wives or partners of serial murderers who remained unaware of exactly who they had fallen for until after their other half's arrest or, in some cases, conviction, for multiple murders. Although interesting I struggled with the fact that he spoke about each killer differently, some of them you got parts of actual conversations with the killers and their feelings but others you didn’t. A lot of the time I wasn’t sure if he was talking about facts or his opinion/own summarised version of things. Am stat de vorbă cu criminali în serie alaturi de Christopher Berry-Dee în fiecare dimineață, câteva minute pe zi, timp de o săptămână. Conversațiile au fost neplăcute, acre de cele mai multe ori, dar pline de interes.

A large portion of this book is just stating facts about female killers rather than any actual in depth discussion about them. Psychopaths: Up Close and Personal: Inside the Minds of Sociopaths, Serial Killers and Deranged Murderers AND TO BE HONEST, THERE IS NO MENTION OF MUCH PSYCHOLOGY AT ALL. I thought this book would maybe delve into some, you know, actual science, or some reputable studies. But no, it seems to be the author's own opinion - or the opinion of someone else who has complimented him, and so he thinks they are great enough to be included. I really enjoyed hearing Christopher narrating the story and absolutely ADORED the clips from the killers themselves. A fascinating read about 9 prolific serial killers, many of whom I had not heard of from other documentariesI enjoy a good book about the mind, however skewed that mind is, or how mixed up or evil. It all makes an interesting read, these case studies the author has compiled, as the dots can either be connected or not, and the people behind the masks can be seen. Secondly, 'Talking [about] Female (Serial) Killers' doesn't appear to have been thoroughly proofread or edited to any great degree. One more than slightly confusing instance came where the author writes that not enough evidence was found to take a case to trial in 1996; however, in the next paragraph it is written that, after a year or so of police work, the case eventually comes to trial in 1967. Instances such as this occur fairly frequently throughout the book.

Berry-Dee refers to the subject matters of his book with a range of charming descriptions including "overweight lump", "once attractive", "disgusting and fat" etc. etc. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting he be *nice* about murderers, but I'm not entirely sure why he's so caught up on their looks when there are a plethora of other aspects for which he could be criticising them (for example the murders they committed perhaps...). This book contains conversations between a criminologist, and some of the worlds most evil and disturbed individuals. When I say evil, I definitely don't say it lightly. The information I have read in this book was unsettling to say the least, and terribly difficult to digest at times. talking with serial killers' my ass. more like 'incoherent rambling about serial killers while stroking my ego'. I think I expected more of an interview style storyline and hear more from the prisoners, rather than have the author summarise the countless interviews and correspondence with the serial killers he claims to have had. It was very sad that they all seemed to have a terrible upbringing, there was definitely a pattern there. In the book is a paragraph written by Dr R Joseph a Psychotherapist, neuropsychologist and neuroscientist, his explanation about your childhood staying with you was very interesting.

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As a book about real life serial killers, the stories (mostly) are very interesting and the author clearly has a substantial amount of information about them which makes for an interesting read. At times though this book was a struggle to read with the countless spelling and grammatical errors clearly missed by the publishers which almost made me give the book 2 stars. Sonia Sutcliffe first discovered that her husband, Peter, was leading a secret existence as 'the Yorkshire Ripper' only when he was arrested.

I'd had nightmares for 3 consecutive nights when I started the book, reading detailed depictions of the crime scenes, how decomposed the corpses were, how manslaughter and body dismemberment were carried out, and even cannibalism. The psychopathy [documented in this book] gets worse to the point that a .22 calibre gun-shot is the most merciful killing method. I don't want to criticise too much as I know Berry-Dee put a lot more effort into his work than this book highlights, but there wasn't enough detailing of his personal time or experience with these killers to really showcase his time with them. Meh. There are better books about serial killers, there are worse books about serial killers. Unless this is the first book you have ever read about killers, you won't learn much and there is some outright bad information in this book but it's too "meh" for me to give a crap. There is a case in here that I would argue, after reading, that the man in question was railroaded. The author agrees, and does point this out, but being 'fitted up' is nothing new, though being fitted up as a serial killer is something I find hard to get my head around: surely someone along the line should be able to spot an innocent person? You'd think so, wouldn't you? Not always so!Heres what has me torn when thinking about this book. I enjoy reading about true crime and behavioural analysis of serial killers. The mind is an incredible thing so to think it can be so unhinged to drive a person to be like this is something I enjoy reading the how and why behind it. Although the book gives a lot of factual information and some conversations and quotes from the killers I felt it was quite disjointed. The author at times got his facts mixed up, there are grammar errors which were hard to ignore, on many occasions you get a statement from the author stating if it wasn’t for his interviews and the book certain facts about the murder cases would not have been resolved however when you look into these claims they are not entirely true.

the constant need to talk about a woman's weight and looks when it has absolutely 0 relation to the case is a bit odd mr. berry-dee i am not here to find out whether you find these women attractive the random male killers he'd add in just because he felt like it even though he's writing a book on FEMALE killers was fun This book is highly misleading and contains information that can be found easily online, however written in a repetitive, often confusing and juvenile way. It is hard to to discern what is a hard fact about a case gathered from the interview and what is just the opinion of the author. There is so many editing errors and only a handful of direct quotes from the interviews, despite this being called ‘Talking with serial killers’. A lot of this is just men hating women, sexist remarks and the like, but I suppose should you really expect any less from serial killers?

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Firstly, the title is more than a little inaccurate given that Berry-Dee doesn't actually talk to most of the women discussed in the book. And quite a few of them aren't actually "serial" killers.