Cold Blooded Murder - Edited by Malcolm Brown

Why do some people cross the threshold from rational behaviour to cold blooded murder?
 
What could motivate a mother to kill her own children?
 
How could a man kill his pregnant wife and toddler with a spear gun?
 
Could parental pressure provoke a student to wipe out his entire family?
 
How would anyone in their right mind think they could get away with assassinating a political rival?
 
These questions and many more are answered in this book, a collection of the most monstrous murder cases to hit the headlines in recent years.
 
Crimes include : the assassination of John Newman, the bodies found in barrels in Snowtown, the calculated killing of Dr Margaret Tobin, the bloody slaying of Frank Arkell, Kathleen Folbigg's murder of her four babies, the death of the woman in the boot - Maria Korp, Melbourne's society murders and Sef Gonzales' slaughter of his parents and sister.
 
Each story provide an insight into the mind of a killer. Whether crimes of passion or the underworld, psycho-murders or those resulting from intense and tangled family breakdowns, the author reminds each of us how a seemingly simple chain of events can lead to cold blooded murder.