You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in true crime history,

and the authors that have written about them.

Gacy, Bundy, Domer, the Night Stalker, DTK, every week, another fascinating author talking

about the most shocking and infamous killers in true crime history.

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

Good evening, this is your host, Dan Zufansky, for the program True Murder, the most shocking

killers in true crime history, and the authors that have written about them.

Times of Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, and other high profile

killers are so breathtakingly awful that most people would label them evil.

Renowned psychiatrist Dr. Michael H. Stone, host of Discovery Channel's former series Most

Evil, uses this as his starting point to explore the concept and reality of evil from a new

perspective.

Having his analysis on the detailed biographies of more than 600 violent criminals, Dr. Stone

has created a 22-level hierarchy of evil behavior, loosely reflecting the structure of

Dante's inferno.

He traces two salient personality traits that run the gamut from those who commit crimes

of passion to perpetrators of the worst crimes, sadistic torture and murder.

One trait is narcissism as exhibited in people who are so self-centered that they have

little or no ability to care about their victims.

The other is aggression, the use of power of another person to inflict humiliation, suffering

and death.

What do psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience tell us about the minds of those described

...