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Interview with Peter Vronsky,expert on international espionage and forensic history

by Roxanne Caracciolo | Sep 15, 2023 | Culture, Featured, Interviews, They kill, We write – True Crime

Peter Vronsky was born in 1956 in Toronto, Canada. As independent historian and documentary filmmaker, he is a producer of investigative-themed television programs in Canada, the United States and Europe. During his career he has gone undercover in sects such as the Ku Klux Klan and in groups engaged in smuggling radioactive materials into the rebel republic of Chechnya in Russia. His research and interviews have been featured in various books and television programs. He got a Ph.D. in...

American Serial Killers: The Deadliest Years 1950-2000 by Peter Vronsky

by Roxanne Caracciolo | May 5, 2023 | Book, They kill, We write – True Crime

Peter Vronsky's latest work, American Serial Killers (Nua Edizioni), will also be available in Italy from May 12th. It's an extraordinary essay that delves not only into what the author calls the "golden age" of serial killers, but also examines their historical, cultural, and psychological origins, taking readers on a journey into the darkest recesses of the human and collective psyche. Vronsky is a Canadian investigative historian, writer, and director who holds a PhD in the history of...

John Wayne Gacy, Clown-killer

by KeiLeela | Mar 30, 2023 | Culture, They kill, We write – True Crime

John Wayne Gacy (1942-1994) was an American politician, businessman, husband, father, and charity clown. However, he was also a serial killer who murdered 33 young men between 1972 and 1978. Many of the victims were found buried under his house in the suburbs of Chicago. Even after fifty years, not all of the victims have been identified through DNA analysis. Stephen King was inspired by Gacy for his famous character, Pennywise the Clown, in the novel IT, although the writer never admitted to...

Dark Journey, Deep Grace: Jeffrey Dahmer’s Story of Faith

by Roxanne Caracciolo | Mar 21, 2023 | Book, They kill, We write – True Crime

Dark Journey, Deep Grace: Jeffrey Dahmer's Story of Faith by Roy Ratcliff was released in 2006. This book is a collaboration with Lindy Adams, editor of The Christian Chronicle magazine. Ratcliff is a Minister of the Church of Christ who served in Kansas and Wisconsin. He's also married and has two grown children. The unexpected human and spiritual experience with the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in 1994 made him the decision to continue his mission in the Wisconsin penitentiaries. When a...