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True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufanski.

Good evening.

From the author of Serial Killers, the method and madness of monsters, comes an in-depth

examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why

we were drawn to their horrifying crimes.

Before the term was coined in 1981, there were no serial killers.

There were only monsters, killer society first understood as werewolves, vampires, ghouls

and witches, or later Hitchcock and psychos.

In Sons of Kane, a book that fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized

true crime, investigative historian Peter Veronski examines our understanding of serial

killing from its prehistoric anthropological evolutionary dimensions in the pre-civilization

era, 15,000 BC, to today.

Delving further back into human history and deeper into the human psyche than serial killers,

Veronski's 2004 book, which has been called the Definitive History of Serial Murder,

is focused strictly on sexual serial killers, thrill killers who engage in murder, rape,

torture, cannibalism and necrophilia, as opposed to for-profit serial killers including

Hitman or political serial killers like terrorists or genocidal murderers.

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