Examines the "stories of forty malevolent killers and hundreds of innocent victims, including such notorious homicidal maniacs as John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, and Jeffery Dahmer, [and] also looks at lesser-known and overlooked murderers like Herbert Baumeister, America's I-70 Strangler; Japan's 'Anime Killer,' Tsutomu Miyazaki; Russia's 'Rostov Ripper,' Andrei Chikatilo; the 'Giggling Granny,' Nannie Doss; and many more"