David Malocco

David Elio Malocco was born in Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland. His father was born in Casalattico in Frosinone in Italy and his mother was born in Monaghan in Ireland. He was educated at the Christian Brothers School in Dundalk and his parents later sent him to St. Patricks College in Cavan where they hoped he would be ordained as a Catholic priest. But he chose law and business instead.

He received his Bachelor of Civil Law degree from University College Dublin and spent fifteen years as a criminal lawyer before taking a second degree at the Open University, Milton Keynes in England where he obtained a first class honours degree in Psychology majoring in Cognitive Development.

In 1991 he realized a personal ambition and moved to New York where he studied film direction, production and writing for film at New York University. Since then he has written numerous screenplays in several genre and has written, produced and directed many shorts and three feature films, Virgin Cowboys, Magdalen and Jack Gambel: The Enigma.

He later studied creative writing at Oxford University. He is a Graduate Member of the British Psychology Society and a member of the American Society of Criminology. He completed dual diplomas in Forensic Science and the Psychology of Criminal Profiling.

His first book, Serial Sex Killers - Real American Psychos is part of a trilogy on the psychology of serial killers and includes Sexual Psychopaths - British Serial Killers and Murder for Profit. He also also written books on the Beatles, the world's worst serial killers and forensic science and crime scene analysis. He is a lifelong supporter of Liverpool Football Club and enjoys filmmaking, writing, making and drinking wine and cooking. He lives in Wexford in Ireland.