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All that is wicked : a gilded-age story of murder and the race to decode the criminal mind / Kate Winkler Dawson.
"Acclaimed crime historian, podcaster, and author of American Sherlock Kate Winkler Dawson tells the thrilling story of Edward Rulloff-a serial murderer who was called "too intelligent to be killed"-and the array of 19th century investigators who were convinced his brain held the key to finally understanding the criminal mind"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780593420065 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xi, 304 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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- Baker & Taylor
The documentary producer and crime historian who wrote American Sherlock tells the true story of the âVictorian-era Hannibal Lecterâ who used his smarts and regal bearing to evade notice and punishment in the dazzling salons of New York social circles. - Baker & Taylor
"Acclaimed crime historian, podcaster, and author of American Sherlock Kate Winkler Dawson tells the thrilling story of Edward Rulloff-a serial murderer who was called "too intelligent to be killed"-and the array of 19th century investigators who were convinced his brain held the key to finally understanding the criminal mind"-- - Penguin Putnam
Acclaimed crime historian, podcaster, and author of American Sherlock Kate Winkler Dawson tells the thrilling story of Edward Rulloffâa serial murderer who was called âtoo intelligent to be killedââand the array of 19th century investigators who were convinced his brain held the key to finally understanding the criminal mind.
Edward Rulloff was a brilliant yet utterly amoral murdererâsome have called him a âVictorian-era Hannibal Lecterââwhose crimes spanned decades and whose victims were chosen out of revenge, out of envy, and sometimes out of necessity. From his humble beginnings in upstate New York to the dazzling salons and social life he established in New York City, at every turn Rulloff used his intelligence and regal bearing to evade detection and avoid punishment. He could talk his way out of any crime...until one day, Rulloff's luck ran out.
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By 1871 Rulloff sat chained in his cellâa psychopath holding court while curious 19th-century "mindhunters" tried to understand what made him tick. From alienists (early psychiatrists who tried to analyze the source of his madness) to neurologists (who wanted to dissect his brain) to phrenologists (who analyzed the bumps on his head to determine his character), each one thought he held the key to understanding the essential question: is evil born or made? Eventually, Rulloffâs brain would be placed in a jar at Cornell University as the prize specimen of their anatomy collection...where it still sits today, slowly moldering in a dusty jar. But his storyâand its implications for the emerging field of criminal psychologyâwere just beginning.
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Expanded from season one of her hit podcast on the Exactly Right network (7 million downloads and growing), in All That Is Wicked Kate Winkler Dawson draws on hundreds of source materials and never-before-shared historical documents to present one of the first glimpses into the mind of a serial killerâa century before the term was coinedâthrough the scientists whose work would come to influence criminal justice for decades to come.
