The Beast of Harkstede: Serial KillerBetween 1971 and 2001, Willem van Eijk murdered at least five women across two distinct cycles of sexually motivated violence, and almost certainly killed many more whose deaths the Dutch justice system was never able to formally attribute to him.
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The Velsk Chikatilo: Russian Serial KillerIn 1999, a man serving a prison sentence for multiple rapes was handed the keys to a municipal sewage truck and sent, unsupervised, into the town of Velsk in Russia's Arkhangelsk Oblast.
On cold courthouse steps, in dusty jail cells, and inside forgotten trial transcripts, America quietly reinvented its justice system—again and again—after tragedy forced its hand.
Recounted for the first time and in detail, this is the unbelievable true story of the Edwardian confidence trickster who fooled the world - three times.