![]() ![]() While the entries to these volumes will continue to grow-the FBI estimates that there are at least fifty serial killers operating in the United States at any given time- The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is as complete as possible through the end of 2017. Written and compiled by Susan Hall, the four-volume set has more than 1600 entries of male and female serial killers from around the world.ĭefined by the FBI as a person who murders 3 or more people over a period of time with a hiatus of weeks or months between murders, serial killers have walked among us from the dawn of time as these books will demonstrate. The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is the most comprehensive set of its kind in the history of true crime publishing. Serial Killer Video: Ivan Milat - The Backpacker K.A comprehensive reference guide to male and female serial killers from throughout world history.Read the horrific story of Mark Smith, plus 49 more serial killer cases in 50 American Serial Killers You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Volume 5. He soon cracked and admitted killing Jean Ann, as well as three other women.įound guilty of first-degree murder at his trial in 1971, Mark Smith was sentenced to a total of 500 years behind bars. That immediately roused suspicion and Smith was brought in for questioning. He then assisted in the search for her body and it was he who “discovered” it, floating in a small lake nearby. On May 27, exactly four months after murdering Jean Bianchi, Smith viciously raped and murdered 17-year-old high school senior Jean Ann Lingenfelter. Her body was found the following morning, frozen solid in a nearby field. Just over one month later, Smith abducted Jean Irene Bianchi from a laundromat in McHenry, Illinois. Smith’s first known US victim was Obie Faye Ash, killed on December 3, 1969, in Mountain Home, Arkansas. Back Stateside, he wasted little time in continuing his killing spree. Method of murder: Stabbing / Strangulationīy the time he returned to home in 1969, after serving in Germany with the US Army, Mark Smith was already a serial killer, suspected of murdering eight German women during his tour of duty. ![]()
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