Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong : inside the mind of a female serial killer /

Throughout history there have been a number of female serials killers, but what drives these women to kill? Clark and Palattella dive deeper into this question by examining the case of Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, and provide a history of how the criminal justice system has handled complex and controve...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Clark, Jerry, 1960- (Autor), Palattella, Ed (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
Temas:
Diehl-Armstrong, Marjorie.
Diehl-Armstrong, Marjorie
Women serial murderers > Pennsylvania > Erie > Case studies.
Mentally ill offenders > Pennsylvania > Erie > Case studies.
Tueuses en série > Pennsylvanie > Erie > Études de cas.
Criminels vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Pennsylvanie > Erie > Études de cas.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Mentally ill offenders
Women serial murderers
Pennsylvania > Erie
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Cycle of death : Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong's pattern of violence
  • In rare company : female serial killers in history
  • Killing like a man : angels of death, black widows, and damsels of doom
  • A cluttered mind : Marjorie Diehl's hoarding and other obsessions
  • Dictionary of disorder : defining mental illness
  • Death of a boyfriend : a fatal shooting, a suicide, and a question of stability
  • "A madman or a natural fool" : determining mental competency
  • "Scared to death" : Marjorie Diehl's first homicide trial
  • Flight of ideas : the burdens of bipolar disorder
  • "Freezer queen" : marjorie diehl-armstrong kills again
  • The fractured intellectuals : the pizza bomber plot unravels
  • Psyche on trial : Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong's final verdict
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index
  • About the authors.

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