Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong: Inside the Mind of a Female Serial Killer

Jerry Clark, Ed Palattella

$45.00

Publication Date: September 22nd, 2017

Publisher:

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN:

9781442260078

Pages:

284

Description

Throughout history there have been a number of female serials killers, but what drives these women to kill? Clark and Palattella dive deeper into this question by examining the case of Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, and provide a history of how the criminal justice system has handled complex and controversial issues surrounding mental illness.

About the Author

Jerry Clark, PhD, retired as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2011 after twenty-seven years in law enforcement, including careers as a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. He is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he is also co-owner of Clark & Wick Investigations LLC. Ed Palattella joined the Erie Times-News, in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1990. He has won a number of awards, including for his investigative work and his coverage of crime. Both are the authors of Pizza Bomber: The Untold Story of America's Most Shocking Bank Robbery and A History of Heists: Bank Robbery in America, which was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2015.