Peter Manuel, Serial Killer

Peter Manuel was an icy-eyed psychopath and sexual predator, a petty thief and a relentless liar given to violent and uncontrollable rages. His unprecedented crimes presented the Scottish police and public with a new sort of criminal: the ruthless serial killer.

Manuel was hanged at the age of thirty-one and convicted of seven murders, but suspected of many more. He slew many of his victims as the...