Mass Killers: Inside the Minds of Men Who Murder (True Crime Casefiles) - Softcover

David J. Krajicek is a prominent American true crime journalist and author. For the past two decades the native Nebraskan has written The Justice Story, a weekly feature that looks back at archival crimes for The New York Daily News. He is the author of seven books, including the regional best-seller True Crime: Missouri (Stackpole); Scooped (Columbia University Press), a critical analysis of the media's coverage of crime; and Murder, American Style, which is drawn from his newspaper columns.

From the Foreward by Bruce Porter, author of Blow and Snatched:

• "In this remarkable book about the phenomenon of mass murder, David J. Krajicek, a former New York Daily News police reporter and professor at the Columbia Journalism School, has come the closest I've seen to providing helpful answers to the generally unfathomable conundrum: Why did they do it? And was it predictable what they did?...Pulling together evidence from experts who've spent their lives studying these cases, Krajicek comes up with valuable insights that should be made available to every school counselor and teacher and child welfare worker, not to mention mothers and fathers and siblings, who might have the chance to intervene on behalf a friend or relative before his killer instincts explode."    

Praise for David J. Krajicek:"Krajicek is moved by the incongruity of commonplacesurroundings and evil deeds...Some themes run through the crimes he hasstudied. Among them is a recurrence of immorality and buffoonery in thesame felonious package...Friends have come to call Krajicek 'Mr.Murder.' He never considers this an insult."--Ken Newton, St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press         Krajicek's work in brief: "Hardboiled lyricism," says literature Professor Lynne D. Schneider of Alabama State University. "Lively," says Entertainment Weekly. "Passionate," says Ken Auletta of The New Yorker. "Powerful," says the American Journalism Review.           "David Krajicek's crime writing has branded him Mr.Murder, so it's apt he looks the heavy with his bearded mug,bouncerglare and imposing size. This tabloid poet and rebel hails from a longline of barkeeps and meatpackers. He is a standout writer ofterse, staccato prose and vivid details."--Leo Adam Biga, The Omaha Reader

"Krajicek...spent months digesting the writings and recorded leavings of 50 mass murderers in Europe and the United States.The result is 'Mass Killers: Inside the Minds of Men who Murder' (Arcturus Publishing Unlimited, 2019). Described as 'powerful, passionate and hard-boiled lyricism,' the 300-plus-page book is a masterful, well-written, well-researched, contextual and insightful exploration into the motivations and mental state of these killers in their own words."--Ruben Rosario, St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press