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Search and Destroyer

In 1974, this unknown suspect, who nicknamed himself the "Search and Destroyer," killed an entire family of four, which was followed by the killings of at least two other women in 1977. Although he enjoyed contacting the media and taunting law enforcement officials, his identity is still unknown to this day.
For more information about this case, please refer to pages 1-23 in Obsession.

Atlanta Child Murders

Beginning in 1980, Wayne Bertram Williams, a black male in his twenties, unleashed a reign of terror on the people of Atlanta, Georgia, killing more than a dozen young black children before he was finally caught.
For more information about this case, please refer to pages 39-46 in Obsession.

South Auckland Rapist

Named for the area in New Zealand that he terrorized from the early 1980s to1995, Joseph Stephenson Thompson was surprisingly non-discerning in his choices of rape victims-they merely had to be female, of any age, and of any physical description.
For more information about this case, please refer to pages 47-60 in Obsession.

West Side Rapist

After raping more than thirty women in the Cleveland area in the 1980s, Ronnie Shelton was eventually brought to justice after making the fatal error of using the bankcard of one of his victims.
For more information about this case, please refer to pages 60-100 in Obsession.

The Preppie Murderer

On August 26, 1986, Robert Chambers, an attractive twenty-year-old, raped and killed eighteen-year-old Jennifer Levin in Manhattan's Central Park, after her misplaced trust convinced her to willingly leave a bar with him that night.
For more information about this case, please refer to pages 136-163 in Obsession.

Victim: Destiny (Dee) Ann Souza (Age 8)

On September 17, 1990, Destiny was found by her mother, Katie, in the basement of their townhouse in Fairfax County, Virginia. She had been beaten to death by Katie's sister's boyfriend, Robert Miller, who was convicted of the murder.
For more information about this case, please refer to pages 197-240 in Obsession.

Edward Gein

In an effort to "recreate" his dead mother out of body parts that he collected, Gein began killing near his farmhouse in Wisconsin in the 1950s, when grave robbing became insufficient to produce the "raw material" he needed. The criminally insane Gein served as a model for both Psycho and Silence of the Lambs.
For more information about this case, please refer to pages 366-374 in Obsession.

Ted Bundy

By the time Ted Bundy was executed in Florida on January 24, 1989, law enforcement authorities had tied this former poster boy for American middle-class success and happiness to more than thirty murders of young women across the United States.
For more information about this case, please refer to pages 374-387 in Obsession.

Gary Heidnik

An intelligent man with an IQ of 130, Heidnik was able to abduct numerous women and keep them as slaves in a pit in the basement of his home in Philadelphia, where he starved and tortured them, sometimes electrocuting them. He was only caught when one of the women, whom he trusted more than the others, convinced him to let her leave to tell her family that she was okay.
For more information about this case, please refer to pages 387-401 in Obsession.

Victim: Stephanie Schmidt (Age 19)

In the summer of 1993, Stephanie, a college student at the University of Kansas, was abducted and killed by Ron Gideon, who knew her from the restaurant where she worked part-time as a waitress. By April of 1994, the Kansas State Legislature passed the Stephanie Schmidt Sexual Predator Act.
For more information about this case, please refer to pages 402-450 in Obsession

Detailed information about all of the above cases, as well as the psychological stages following victimization, the different classifications of rapists, and the different types of stalkers (making use of the stalking cases of Jodie Foster, Rebecca Schaeffer, and Theresa Saldana as examples), can be found in Obsession, written by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker.