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Contents Foreword by James R. Kincaid ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 3 Part I. Policing the Serial Killer 13 1. Defining the Monster: Serial Killing and the FBI 17 2. Investigating the Serial Killer: The Seeking of Origins 34 The Serial Killer and the Idea of the Individual / 34 II Are You Raising a Jeffrey Dahmer?" / 40 3. Investigating the Serial Killer: Silencing the Unspeakable 48 4. Jeffrey Dahmer: Gay, White Cannibal 65 Part II. Dreaming the Serial Killer 89 5. The Horror in the Mirror: Average Joe and the Mechanical Monster 93 6. Confessing the Unspeakable 100 7. Supercops and Superkillers 109 8. The Monstrous Self: Dreaming Up Reality 118 9. Sanity, Satan, and Sanitized Evil 136 10. Fantasies of Power 143 The Serial Killer and the Powers of Intelligence / 145 The Serial Killer as Warrior Knight / 150 A Man's Man: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Dream of Masculinity / 154 vii Conclusion Bibliography Index Contents viii 168 183 189 ...

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