Brian Lee Tucker

True Criminal Minds Brian Lee Tucker

Serial killing for profit? In the book TRUE CRIMINAL MINDS: INTERVIEWS WITH REAL LIFE SERIAL KILLERS, author Brian Lee Tucker strips away all of the glitz and glamour so often associated with the romanticizing and glamorizing of modern day so called, 'true stories, ' featuring charming, suave serial killers that women just can't seem to stay away from. Insinuating that any serial killer is 'charming, ' is no different than saying that fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter merely suffered from an 'eating disorder.' In real life, behind the glitz and glamour of most Hollywood productions, your average, 'garden variety' serial killer is anything but charming. As an amateur crime beat journalist, Tucker has researched some of the worst serial killers to ever walk the planet, including Ted Bundy, one of the most depraved killers to ever prowl the streets. In the end, Bundy fried for strangling and raping the remains of a twelve year old Florida schoolgirl. Bundy was so depraved that he radiated evil like a supernova. Charming? Be still my beating heart. Then we have Ottis Toole - aka 'the cannibal kid' - born at the bottom of the gene pool, retarded and illiterate, had been out of control since early childhood. A severely drug-dependent individual as well as an arsonist, murderer, rapist, and cannibal, he was unsafe under any conditions outside of a secure prison, and perhaps unsafe there. To him, life itself was so unmeaning, and the distinction between living and dead people so blurred, that killing another human being was no more than swatting an annoying fly. TRUE CRIMINAL MINDS: INTERVIEWS WITH REAL LIFE SERIAL KILLERS may be tough to digest, but it provides in depth and often terrifying glimpse into the REAL life and mind of monsters who so often end up glorified in the media for profit. NOTE: Contains bonus material: an excerpt from the forthcoming book, HENRY LEE: AN AMERICAN MONSTER, by Brian Lee Tucker, written in Cormac McCarthy style prose that reads like a screenplay but written in manuscript format. A must read for true crime fans!