Erased : missing women, murdered wives / Marilee Strong ; with Mark Powlson.
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 the victim disappear.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780787996390 (cloth)
- ISBN: 0787996394 (cloth)
- Physical Description: viii, 337 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2008.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-324) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Uxoricide > United States > Case studies. Pregnant women > Crimes against > United States > Case studies. Murderers > United States > Psychology. |
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Erased : Missing Women, Murdered Wives
Based on five years of investigative reporting and research intoforensic psychology and criminology, Erased presents anoriginal profile of a widespread and previously unrecognized typeof murder: not a ?hot-blooded,? spur-of-the-momentcrime of passion, as domestic homicide is commonly viewed, but acold-blooded, carefully planned and methodically executed form of?erasure.? These crimes are often committed by men withno criminal record or history of violence whatsoever, men leadingfunctional and often successful lives until the moment they killthe women, and sometimes children, they claimed to love. Asurprising number go on to kill a second or even third wife orgirlfriend, often in exactly the same way. In more than fifty chilling case studies, Marilee Strongexamines the strange and complex psychology that drives thesekillers?from the murder a century ago that inspired the novel An American Tragedy to Scott Peterson, Mark Hacking, JeffreyMacDonald, Ira Einhorn, Charles Stuart, Robert Durst, MichaelWhite, Barton Corbin, and many others. Erased also looks athow these men manipulate the legal system and exploit loopholes inmissing persons procedures and death investigation, exposing howeasy it can be to get away with murder.