title: Monster: The True Story of Serial Killer Peter Kurten (Homicide True Crime Cases) (Volume 6)
author:  C.L. Swinney 
description: "<span>Great book about German Serial Killer Peter Kurten aka The Vampire of Dusseldorf a lifelong sadist, rapist, child killer and Serial murderer. After being tried, convicted and sentenced to be guillotined he asked the executioner "Do You Think that I'll be able to feel the blood gushing from my severed neck before I Die? I hope so, that would be a pleasure to end all pleasures" Another Great Book by True Crime Author C.L. Swinney"- R. Krystofolski</span><br /><br />"<span>Mr. Swinney has produced a remarkable book that not only covers the gruesome murders but also seeks answers as to how this monster was created.-" B. McKee</span>
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  # The Red Ripper
  
  
  ## Inside the Mind of Russia’s Most Brutal Serial Killer
  
  
  ### Peter Conradi
  
  
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  Introduction by Colin Wilson
  
  
  Peter Conradi has, I believe, produced one of the most interesting case
  histories of a serial killer since Dr Karl Berg published The Sadist—a study
  of the ‘Düsseldorf Monster’, Peter Kürlen—in 1932.
  
  
  As the professor of forensic medicine in the Düsseldorf Medical Academy, Berg
  was naturally