Not even the serial-killer crime dramas come right out and say it.
Of course we crime writers all worship at the shrine of Christie, but with all due respect, crime fiction has moved on: there are the inheritors of Thomas Harris's Silence of the Lambs serial-killer crime, some of whom are unfortunately formulaic, and there is crime fiction with a strong social conscience – that didn't exist in Christie's day.
"Scavenger Killers," a crime thriller in which he stars with Eric Roberts and Robert Loggia, is scheduled to open next year.
It's widely believed that "killing killers prevents crime," but, they argue, this is not so.
Mr. Carlo, a bullet-domed Brooklynite who grew up surrounded by criminal intrigue, has built his career profiling serial killers, psychopathic crime lords, Mafia hit men and sexual predators.
Usually, the first accounts present inaccurate information about the killer, the crime, the victims or the roles of bystanders.
Impact on Texas HUNTSVILLE, Tex., Jan . 26(AP) -- Twenty-six Texas death row inmates, including three scheduled for lethal injection in the coming months, would be affected if the Supreme Court barred execution of convicted killers whose crimes were committed when they were younger than 18.
And in their haste, they allowed the real killer's crime to metastasize.
In that case, California law enforcement officials identified a Los Angeles serial killer, whose crimes stretched back to the 1980s, after a 2010 database search turned up a possible relation.
It actually looks more modern than that: a chillingly affectless series of days in the life of a psychopathic serial killer, whose crimes are portrayed without any great melodrama.
So it's naturally shocking when he turns out to be the Origami Killer, his crimes hardwired into a personality misshaped by childhood tragedy, when his own brother drowned before his eyes.
