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Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: Mass Murderers and Spree Killers

By: Christopher Berry-Dee
Narrated by: Colin Mace
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A natural subject for the UK's bestselling true-crime author: a study of people who randomly kill large numbers of others (spree killers), or who set out to do so in specific places or situations (mass killers). Because of the ease of obtaining firearms in the USA, many of these, inevitably, are American, but there have been other recent examples in New Zealand and Norway, while three major mass shootings took place in the UK at Hungerford in 1987 (17 dead, including the killer), Dunblane in 1996 (18, including the killer), and in Cumbria in 2010 (13, including the killer).
As such killings become more frequent, it is easy to blame them on the ready availability of firearms and weak or non-existent background checks, even though many countries, including the UK, have extremely robust firearms legislation. What is more difficult to establish, however, is the motivation behind such killings: some are occasioned by grievance, real or imagined, while others have their origins in a sense of failure or feelings of inadequacy. Other killers, however, seem to be driven by a desire for power over their fellow humans, often coupled with an overriding contempt for the lives of others. In search of answers to the questions raised, Christopher Berry-Dee offers case studies in some of the most infamous mass killings of the past fifty years, from school massacres to workplace killings, hate crimes to familicides. In doing so he demonstrates, chillingly, that such murders are almost impossible to predict, and therefore almost impossible to prevent. Crime Murder True Crime
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very gripping, interesting and really enjoyed it, did not want to stop. Will most definitely listen again.

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I found the writer bitingly sarcastic. A little too much infact, allowing himself to be pulled off course to sink his teeth deeper still. That said, the performance was able to pull it off well.

Good book and performance

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Starts off quite slow
Felt it was more his opinions on guns and gun laws
Once you get 5 chapters in it starts to pick up pace but you never hear all the full stories till the final chapters and even then feels cut short from the details you’d expect from this author.
However it is written well he makes valid points shares just enough detail without too much descriptive gore. The narration is great with all the highs and lows and sarcastic undertones!

Makes for a good listen.

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the auther seemed more interested in the weaponry than the people committing the crimes. pity, it was quite interesting in parts.

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Feels a bit stale and repetitive. Like he’s just milking the cash cow at this point. And then he goes Trump bashing, blaming the terrible crimes perpetrated by the criminals on Trump. Brilliant.
Might be time for Chris to retire, he’s on the way out.

Not bad, not good

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