Frenzy!: Heath, Haigh and Christie - The First Great Tabloid Murderers

Frenzy!: Heath, Haigh and Christie - The First Great Tabloid Murderers
ISBN-10
1848093179
ISBN-13
9781848093171
Category
Crime and the press
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
Preface Publishing
Author
Neil Root

Description

"We live in a twenty-four hour television news and internet culture. Events are on air and online within hours, sometimes minutes or seconds. This is especially true when it comes to cases of murder, the dark fascination and sensational details of these extraordinary actions and sad misfortunes keep viewers and surfers gripped. This appetite has in turn encouraged the tabloid press. Pages and pages are devoted to gruesome stories, sometimes with a level of detail that is truly chilling. Murder has transfixed the popular press for centuries. But it was only in the second half of the twentieth century that murder began saturating front pages and making these monsters what we today recognise as modern celebrities. It was three serial killers, caught and executed in the few years after the end of the Second World War, who precipitated a level of furore never seen before. Neville Heath, a charming sadist who killed two women; John George Haigh, the Acid Bath Killer who killed between six and nine men and women; and John Christie, the ineffectual necrophile, who killed between six and eight women. The modern news coverage finds its roots with these three men whom the crime historia

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