American Serial Killers - Softcover

Vickers, Marques

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798235266889

Publisher: Marques Vickers, 2026

Synopsis

This edition profiles and documents some of America's most infamous serial killers and unsolved murders. More pointedly, in most of the chapters, you are transported to the actual killing site where the homicides occurred.

The updated editions are also important to keep the victims' legacies fresh and significant to a society often numbed by the frequency of violence and sensationalist murders. The private trauma remains fresh to the immediate victim's families, friends and diverse relationships. The ghosts of recollection are prevalent, searing and painful. They never recede. For the innocent victims of homicides, their stilled voices are silenced, but their identities and legacies should never be forgotten.

The cases profiled include:

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA:
Zodiac Killer, Dorothea Puente, The Zebra Killers, Juan Corona, The Trailside Killer, Jim Jones and the People's Temple, Richard Trenton and Santa Rosa Hitchhiking Murderers

CENTRAL CALIFORNIA:
Edmund Kemper III, Speed Freak Killers, Herbert Mullin and Jose Manuel Martinez

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:
Charles Manson, Efren Saldivar, Heaven's Gate Mass Suicide, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris, Rodney Alcala, Hillside Strangler Duo, Richard Ramirez, Golden State Killer and Jon David Guerrero

PORTLAND, OREGON:
The Dark Strangler, Michele Dee Gates, Randall Woodfield, Smiley Face Killer, Scott William Cox and Homer Lee Jackson

SALEM, OREGON:
Richard Marquette, Women's Shoe Fetish Killer and William Scott Smith

NEWPORT, OREGON:
Bobby Jack Fowler

EUGENE OREGON:
John Charles Bolsinger

MILWAUKEE, OREGON:
Dayton Leroy Rogers

SEATTLE METRO, WASHINGTON:
Green River Killer, Morris Frampton and Ted Bundy

BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON:
George Russell, Jr.

TACOMA, WASHINGTON:
Jake Bird and Lee Malvo

OLALLA, WASHINGTON:
Linda Burfield Hazzard

LONGVIEW, WASHINGTON:
Joe Kondro

VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON:
Warren Forrest

BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON:
Kenneth Bianchi

SPOKANE, WASHINGTON:
Donna Perry and Robert Lee Yates

WASHINGTON D. C.
Shotgun Stalker and Beltway Sniper

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA:
Southside Strangler

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA:
Charles Severance

FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA:
James Lewis

FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA:
Melvin David Rees

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA:
Elderly Prey Serial Killer

CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA:
Shawn Lester

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA:
Sidney Brinkley

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA:
Henry Louis Wallace

CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA:
Donald Pee Wee Gaskins

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN:
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer and North Side Strangler

CARMEL, INDIANA:
Herb Baumeister

COLUMBUS, OHIO:
Dr. Michael Swango and Random 1960s Serial Killer

CINCINNATI, OHIO:
Cumminsville Serial Killer and Cincinnati Strangler

MONTANA:
Shoebox Annie French and DeCasto Earl Mayer, Ted Unabomber Kaczynski and the Missoula Mauler

About this title

About the Author

Visual Artist, Writer and Photographer Marques Vickers is a California native presently living in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle, Washington regions.

He was born in 1957 and raised in Vallejo, California. He is a 1979 Business Administration graduate from Azusa Pacific University in the Los Angeles area. Following graduation, he became the Public Relations and ultimately Executive Director of the Burbank Chamber of Commerce between 1979-84. He subsequently became the Vice President of Sales for AsTRA Tours and Travel in Westwood between 1984-86.

Following a one-year residence in Dijon, France where he studied at the University of Bourgogne, he began Marquis Enterprises in 1987. His company operations have included sports apparel exporting, travel and tour operations, wine brokering, publishing, rare book and collectibles reselling. He has established numerous e-commerce, barter exchange and art websites including MarquesV.com, ArtsInAmerica.com, InsiderSeriesBooks.com, DiscountVintages.com and WineScalper.com.

Between 2005-2009, he relocated to the Languedoc region of southern France. He concentrated on his painting and sculptural work while restoring two 19th century stone village residences. His figurative painting, photography and sculptural works have been sold and exhibited internationally since 1986. He re-established his Pacific Coast residence in 2009 and has focused his creative productivity on writing and photography.

His published works span a diverse variety of subjects including true crime, international travel, California wines, architecture, history, Southern France, Pacific Coast attractions, fiction, auctions, fine art marketing, poetry, fiction and photojournalism.

He has two daughters, Charline and Caroline who presently reside in Europe.

Edition details

• Publisher: Marques Vickers
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798235266889
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392