Gregory K. MoffattRecensioner
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This serious error -- and it was not the only error in his account of Jesse Pomeroy -- naturally made me wonder about the veracity of the rest of the stories. I did see some other screw-ups here and there.
I also think his inclusion of Ed Gein was a mistake. He said he didn't include Jeffrey Dahmer because Dahmer was not intentionally cruel to his victims; well, neither was Gein. Gein was simply a necrophiliac who wasn't averse to producing his own corpses when he felt the need. He did this by simply shooting the person in the head and dragging them away -- he did not design to make his victim suffer. And he only actually killed two people, as far as anyone knows. In addition, the fact that Gein was a verified psychotic should also have disqualified him; Moffatt kept other killers off the list for that reason.
It's a shame, because in this book Moffatt does make some astute descriptions on what separates "history's most vicious killers" apart from ordinary people, or even other murderers.½