American serial killers: the epidemic years 1950-2000

Preface: An arrest in Milwaukee

Introduction: The "golden age" of serial murders

Sons of Cain: a brief history of serial murder from the stone age to 1930

American monstrum:the rise of sexual signature killers 1930-1945

American noir: raising Cain through the trauma years 1930-1950

True pulp murder: the rise of the new serial killers

The big surge: 1970-1979

Mindhunters: the serial killer epidemic 1980-1990

The last serial killers: twilight of the epidemic era 1990-2000

Epilogue: The post-epidemic era 2000-2020.