Serial Killers of the '70s

Stories Behind a Notorious Decade of Death

By: Jane Fritsch

Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi

From Ted Bundy to John Wayne Gacy and David Berkowitz, the 1970s were a time of notorious and brutal serial killers. Find out more about them, along with some you may never have heard of.

The Co-Ed Killer, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, and Dating Game Killer—in many ways, terrifying serial killers were as synonymous with the 1970s as Watergate, disco, and the oil crisis. This fascinating collection of profiles presents the most notorious as well as lesser-known serial murderers of that decade. Beyond Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz, it includes more obscure killers like Coral Eugene Watts, known as “The Sunday Morning Slasher,” who killed 80 women; Edmund Kemper, the "Co-Ed Killer"; and Rodney Alcala, who is believed to have killed between 50 and 130 people between 1971-1979.

Profiles will include:

Rodney Alcala: The Dating Game Killer

David Berkowitz: The Son of Sam

Kenneth A. Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr: The Hillside Strangler

Ted Bundy

John Wayne Gacy: The Killer Clown

Coral Eugene Watts: The Sunday Morning Slasher

Vaughn Greenwood: The Skid Row Slasher

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2020 Jane Fritsch (P)2023 Union Square & Co.

Very detailed

I enjoyed learning some more of the back story of the killers. I really liked the information given about the victims so they aren’t forgotten, lost in the fame(?) of the killers…