Murders in the United States: Crimes, Killers and Victims of the Twentieth Century

Over the past ten years, Barri Flowers has published six books on various aspects of criminology of the USA, ranging from an examination of the adolescent criminal to a study of domestic crimes, family violence and child abuse. Now, with Loraine Flowers, he presents the more general reader with this annotated select list of homicides committed in the twentieth century in the USA. The work is very current, since there is a reference to the execution of the Oklahoma City Bomber, Timothy McVeigh, which occurred on 11 June 2001.

The preface starts by telling the reader that “according to recent...