Erased : missing women, murdered wives /
Citing cases from the 1906 case of Chester Gillette to the present-day case of Scott Peterson, journalist Strong argues that a growing number of men, the "eraser killers," murder their wives or girlfriends with premeditation and dispose of the body in an attempt to make both the crime and...
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San Francisco :
Jossey-Bass,
[2008]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Publisher description Table of contents only Contributor biographical information |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A crime without a name
- Eraser killing : the history and psychology of a new criminal profile
- Out of the shadows
- The dark triad
- The real American tragedy
- Getting away with murder
- The lady-killer
- Disappearing acts
- Hiding in plain sight
- Pregnant and vulnerable : when a child is seen as a threat
- A psychological autopsy of a classic eraser killing
- A watery grave
- Keeping secrets
- Too good to be true
- Seeds of a plan
- A collision course
- Sex, lies, and audiotape
- Conclusion: Fixing a broken system.