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The American Sweeney Todd: Inside the Mind of a Terrifying Serial Killer
By Marilyn J Bardsley
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Marilyn J Bardsley
Marilyn J Bardsley is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, the CEO of Crimescape and the former executive editor/founder of Court TV’s Crime Library, the premier true crime site on the Internet for more than a decade. Her novel The American Sweeney Todd: Inside the Mind of a Terrifying Serial Killer is one of three best reviewed 2017 thrillers by Indie Reader.
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About Crimescape
From the best true crime authors in the business, many of whom have seen their books made into major motion pictures comes Crimescape - a collection of compelling true crime books from leading crime authors. Crimescape is now proud to introduce the new genre of true crime fiction−novels based on exceptional true crime cases.
True Crime Fact
These true crime facts were compiled by Crimescape CEO Marilyn J. Bardsley. They were compiled from FBI publications, Psychology Today, SentryPC, Court TV Crime Library demographic and survey data, and her twenty years of crime investigation and reporting.
True crime audience is overwhelmingly women age 25-45.
“Staying safe” is the primary motive for the female audience.
Female serial killers are less than 20% of total and often go unrecognized.
Serial killer women murder for fun, profit, and revenge—often in care facilities.
About 50% of male serial killers are sexual predators.
Women fear being crime victims much more than men even though men are statistically much more likely to be murdered.
New FBI data shows that violent crime in the United States, including homicide, increased for two years in a row.
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Read the blog by Crimescape’s, chief executive, Marilyn J. Bardsley. The posts cover an exciting variety of topics related to true crime, from mysteries solved after 100 years to the latest thinking on the mind of a serial killer.