Synopses & Reviews
THE INTERNET'S DARK SIDETake a cyber journey where the flicker of LCD screens illuminates unimaginable evil. It starts as a harmless online-date, but can quickly turn to kidnap, torture and death. More than just tales of sinister criminals, this collection of true horror stores destroys commonly held myths, like "it's safe to meet someone after knowing them online for many months." Predators actually gain additional satisfaction from stalking their victims over long periods of time!
Online Killers chronicles the stories of men, women and children whose internet adventures led them into disastrous circumstances, including:
Naïve 15-year-old Christina Long, whose meeting with a much older man from a chat room led to her rape and murder
Schoolteacher Jane Longhurst, the victim of an obsessive necrophiliac who abused her decomposing body for weeks
Bernd-Jurgen Brandes, who was not only killed and eaten by a cannibal, but had the whole process immortalized on video
Young and beautiful Anastasia Solovyonva, the would-be bride who was brutally murdered at the hands of her supposed fiancé
Synopsis
The Internet has rapidly become an integral part of everyone's life including the most violent criminals. Online Killers chronicles the stories of the sinister individuals who have used the Web to work unimaginable evil from the privacy of their own homes. The authors take readers on a cyber journey to a place where the dim flicker of LCD screens illuminates unwitting women and children falling into disastrous circumstances. It might start in a chat room and lead to a harmless cyber-date, but all too quickly it devolves into capture, torture, and death. This cautionary collection reveals many dark tales and destroys commonly held myths, including the belief that it's safe to meet someone after knowing them online for many months predators actually gain additional satisfaction from stalking their victims over long periods of time. Online Killers details tales too horrific to imagine, including the case of schoolteacher Janet Longhurst who was murdered by an obsessive necrophiliac, and story of young and beautiful Anastasia Solovyova, the would-be bride whose new life ended in her brutal death.
About the Author
Christopher Berry-Dee is an investigative criminologist, the director of The Criminology Research Institute and the owner of The New Criminologist, the world's most respected professional journal on all matters criminology. He lives in the U.K. and Russia.
Steven Morris has immense knowledge of serial homicide, psychology, the causation of serial murder and internet crime in all its varied forms. He lives in England.