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Selected Publications

Selected Publications

Forensics books

• The C.S.I. Effect, Penguin, 2006 
• Inside the Minds of Serial Killers:  Why They Kill,
  Praeger, 2006
• The Human Predator: Serial Killers through Time, Berkley, (forthcoming 2005)
• Inside the Minds of Mass Murderers: Why They Kill, Greenwood/Praeger, 2005
• A Voice for the Dead, with James E. Starrs, Penguin Group, 2005).
  --Alternate selection, Book of the Month Club/Doubleday, Literary Guild/History Club
• The Science of Cold Case Files, Berkley 2004
• The Unknown Darkness: Profiling the Predators among Us, with Gregg McCrary, Morrow, 2003.
  --Alternate selection, Book of the Month Club/Doubleday/Literary Guild/History Club
  --Croatian edition, 2005.
  --Dutch edition, 2005
• The Forensic Science of C.S.I., Berkley Books, 2001.
• The Criminal Mind: A Writer's Guide to Forensic Psychology, Writer's Digest Press, 2002.

Psychological studies

• Bliss: Writing to Find Your True Self, Writers' Digest Press, 2000.
• The Art of Learning, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992.
• Engaging the Immediate: Applying Kierkegaard's Indirect Communication to Psychotherapy, Bucknell University Press, 1989.

Biographies

• Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography, HarperCollins, 1997.
  ---British edition, 1997.
• Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice, Dutton, 1991.
  ---French edition, 1993.
  ---Japanese edition, 1995.

Novels:

• The Blood Hunters, Kensington, 2004.
• The Heat Seekers, Kensington, 2002.

Other Topics

• Piercing the Darkness: Undercover with Vampires in America Today, HarperPrism, 1998.
  --British edition, 1999
  --German Edition, 1999.
• Ghost: Investigating the Other Side, St. Martin's Press, 2001.
• Cemetery Stories, HarperCollins, 2001.
  --British edition, 2001.
• The Science of Vampires, Barkley, 2002.
• The Anne Rice Reader, Ballantine, 1997.

Book Chapter:

"Forensic Psychology," with Dr. Michael Welner, Foundations of Forensic Science and Law: Applications in Criminal, Civil, and Family Justice, CRC Press, 2005.

Selected Articles

"Profiling Part 2: The Case of Jack Unterweger," Court TV's Crime Library, September 2004.

• "Robert Berdella: Torture Killer," Court TV's Crime Library, May 2004
• "Mark Hoffman: Genius Bomber," Court TV's Crime Library, Sept. 2003.
• "The Buddhist Temple Massacre," Court TV's Crime Library, April 2003.
• "Juan Corona: California Killer," Court TV's Crime Library, December 2004.
• "The Ratcliffe Highway Massacre," Court TV's Crime Library, December 2004.
• "Cold Case: New Issues," Court TV's Crime Library, December 2004.
• "The CSI Effect and the Jury," Scientific Sleuthing Review, Winter 2004/05.
• "For Scott Peterson Jury, CSI Effect was a Good Thing," Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 14, 2005.
• "Deadly Game: The Schwartz/Vampire Murder" Court TV's Crime Library, November 2004.
• "Judith Neelley: Team Killer," Court TV's Crime Library, November 2004
• "Colin Ireland," Mind of a Murderer, December 2004.
• "The Frankford Slasher," Court TV's Crime Library, November 2004.
• "Team Dynamics: Rosemary and Fred West," Mind of a Murderer, Nov. 2004
• "Profiling a Russian Cannibal" Mind of a Murderer, October 2004.
• "Charles Manson," Mind of a Murderer, British Mag,
• "Forensic Psychology 101: Building a Program," Tangled Web Mystery Magazine, Winter 2004.
• "Spinning the Bottle: The World as the Writer's Game," Bucks County Magazine, Winter 2004.
• "Ghost Whispering," Paranormal Pennsylvania, Fall 2004.
• "Prison Groupies," Razor Magazine, October 2004.
• "Rampage in Hungerford: Michael Ryan" CourtTV's Crime Library, October 2004.
• "H.H. Holmes: The Movie," CourtTV's Crime Library, October 2004.
• "Lady of Blood: Erzsebet Bathory," CourtTV's Crime Library, Oct. 2004.
• "Mutter Museum," Scientific Sleuthing Review, Fall 2004.
• "Another Perspective: The Sunset Killers," CourtTV's Crime Library, Sept. 2004.
• "Working the System: Cases of Self Representation," CourtTV's Crime Library, October 2004.
• "Death by Fasting," CourtTV's Crime Library, September 2004.
• "Gendercide: The Montreal Massacre," Court TV's Crime Library, September 2004.
• "South Side Slayers," Court TV's Crime Library, August 2004.
• "A Web of Lies Leads to Murder," Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug. 17, 2004.
• "Ambiguous Evidence: Suicide or Murder? Blood Spatter Evidence in the Craig Perry Case" CourtTV's Crime Library, August 2004.
• "Serial Killer Art," CourtTV's Crime Library, August 2004.
• "Profiling: History and Method" CourtTV's Crime Library, August 2004.
• "The Murder of Marilyn Sheppard: Fifty Years Later," CourtTV's Crime Library, July 2004.
• "Serial Killer Groupies," CourtTV's Crime Library, July 2004.
• "Secrets Revealed: A Killer's Story (Cullen)," CourtTV's Crime Library, June 2004.
• "Red Jack and the Occult," CourtTV's Crime Library, June 2004.
• "Gacy's Psychiatrist Speaks Out," CourtTV's Crime Library, June 2004.
• "Superstition Rules: Modern Vampire Killers," CourtTV's Crime Library, June 2004.
• "Famous Trials: In The Matter of the Death of Belle Gunness," The Tangled Web, Summer 2004.
• "The Enigmatic Death of Belle Gunness," Court TV's Crime Library, May 2004.
• "A Rare Weapon: Antifreeze Poisoning," Court TV's Crime Library, May 2004.
• "Sylvia Seegrist: America's Female Mass Murderer," Court TV's Crime Library, May 2004.
• "Forensics at DeSales," Criminal Justice Newsletter, April 2004.
• "Multiple Personality: Crime and Defense," CourtTV's Crime Library, April 2004.
• "Dark Ambitions of a Juvenile Killer," CourtTV's Crime Library, April 2004.
• "Murder by God's Command," CourtTV's Crime Library, April 2004.
• "Angels of Death: The Male Nurses," CourtTV's Crime Library, April 2004.
• "Bobby Joe Long: Sexual Predator," CourtTV's Crime Library, March 2004.
• "Cyril Wecht and the Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law," CourtTV's Crime Library, March 2004.
• "Influenced by Fiction: A Vampire Killing," CourtTV's Crime Library, March 2004.
• "Famous Expert Witnesses may Sway Juries Unduly," Philadelphia Inquirer, March 3, 2004.
• "Fathers Who Kill," CourtTV's Crime Library, Feb 2004.
• "Alfred Packer: The Maneater of Colorado," CourtTV's Crime Library, January 2004.
• "The Mutter Museum," Vidocq Society Newsletter, January 2004.
• --reprinted, Scientific Sleuthing Review, Winter 2004.
• "A Unique Experiment: Bass's Lecture on Forensic Anthropology," Vidocq Society Newsletter, January 2004.
• "Angel of Death: Charles Cullen" CourtTV's Crime Library, January 2004.
• "Update on Teena Brandon Murder Case," CourtTV's Crime Library, January 2004.
• "The Forensic Psychologist at Work," Crime Scene Investigation Elwin Street LTD, London, 2004.
• "Forensic Toxicology," CourtTV's Crime Library, Dec. 2003.
• "No Compassion in these Killers," Philadelphia Inquirer Dec. 17, 2003.
• "The Body Farm," CourtTV's Crime Library, Dec. 2003.
• "Report on the Conference on the JFK Assassination, CourtTV's Crime Library, Nov. 2003.
• "Who Killed the Boy in the Box?" Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 7, 2003.
• "Incompetent Incompetency Laws," Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 24, 2003.
• "Problems and Process in Historical Research," Tangled Web, Winter, Issue #2, 2003.
• "Computer Age Progression for Fugitives," CourtTV's Crime Library, Oct. 2003.
• "A Rich Man's Justice and a Case of Murder," CourtTV's Crime Library, Oct. 2003.
• "The Killer Prophet," CourtTV's Crime Library, Oct. 2003.
• "Love and Death: The Sunset Strip Stranglers," CourtTV's Crime Library, Oct. 2003.
• "Michael Welner and the Depravity Scale," CourtTV's Crime Library, Sept. 2003.
• "Death's Acre: The Body Farm," Tangled Web, Fall, Issue #1, 2003.
• --reprinted in The Vidocq Society Journal, Winter 2003.
• "Ramirez and Satan: Perfect Together?" CourtTV's Crime Library, Sept. 2003.
• "The Crimes of Joseph Kallinger: Clever or Crazy?" Court TV's Crime Library, Sept. 2003.
• "Andrea Yates and the Issue of Insanity," Court TV's Crime Library, Sept. 2003.
• "Psychological Detectives, Past and Present," The Tangled Web. Fall, Issue #1, Sept 2003.
• "A Party beyond Redemption," CourtTV's Crime Library, Sept, 2003.
• "Juvenile Killers," Pennsylvania Homicide Investigators Association Newsletter, Aug. 2003.
• "Psychological Autopsies," Court TV's Crime Library, August. 2003.
• "Christopher Wilder: The Beauty Queen Killer," Court TV's Crime Library, August. 2003.
• "Unbelievably, Society Still Slow to Accept Women's Capacity to Kill," Philadelphia Inquirer, July 13, 2003.
• "Too Easy to Criticize a Difficult Manhunt," Philadelphia Inquirer, June 3, 2003
• "Rampage in Camden: Howard Unruh," CourtTV's Crime Library, June 2003.
• "Victim to Victimizer: The Crimes of Jason Massey," CourtTV's Crime Library, June 2003.
• "The Baton Rouge Killer Profile Evaluated," CourtTV's Crime Library, May 2003.
• "The Glenbrook Hazing: Aggressive Girls on the Rise," Philadelphia Inquirer, May 11, 2003.
• "The Rostov Ripper," CourtTV's Crime Library, May 2003.
• "Bad Girls: Women who Kill," Razor, May/June 2003.
• "The Genessee River Murders," CourtTV's Crime Library, May 2002.
• "The Girl in the Box," CourtTV's Crime Library, May, 2002.
• "How Closely Should We Look at Heroes?" The Breakfast Club newsletter, April 2003.
• "Old Cemetery Reopens and Offers a Chance to Reconnect," Philadelphia Inquirer, April 25, 2003.
• "Crime and Split Personalities," Philadelphia Inquirer, April 3, 2003.
• "Robert Hare and the Psychopathy Checklist," CourtTV's Crime Library, March 2003.
• "How Many Mental Illnesses can One Person have?" Saucon News, March 6, 2003.
• "Frank Bender: Recomposer of the Decomposed," Saucon News, March 13, 2003.
• "In Criminology, it's the new 'smoking gun.' Philadelphia Inquirer, March 2, 2003.
• "Psychic Detectives," CourtTV's Crime Library, February 2003.
• "Team Dynamics in the Case of Lee Malvo," Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan 26, 2003.
• "The Axeman of New Orleans," CourtTV's Crime Library, January 2003.
• "Can A Child Have Criminal Intent?" Saucon News, Dec. 10, 2002.
• "Author's $6 million later, Ripper Case Still Open," Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 2, 2002.
• "Writing The Criminal Mind," HWA Newsletter, December 2002.
• "Dance of the Vampires Has no Bite," Cemetery Dance, December 2002.
• "The Parkman Murder and Crime Science," Scientific Sleuthing Review, December 2002
• "Team Killers, Part 3," CourtTV's Crime Library, December 2002.
• "Be a Stud after Death," Philadelphia Inquirer, November 12, 2002.
• "Vidocq," The Vidocq Society Newsletter, November 2002.
• "Team Killers, Part 2," CourtTV's Crime Library, November 2002.
• "West Memphis Three Review," CourtTV's Crime Library, October 2002.
• "Columbine: What We Didn't Know," CourtTV's Crime Library, October 2002.
• "Police Walk Tense Tightrope," Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct 24, 2002.
• "New Hope Hauntings," Paranormal Pennsylvania, October 2002.
• "Psychological Autopsy for Local Shooting," Saucon News Oct 23, 2002
• "Writer to Writer: Setting for a Vampire Novel," The Bucks County Writer, Fall 2002
• "The McMartin Nightmare and the Hysteria Puppeteers," CourtTV's Crime Library, Oct. 2002.
• "Just a Matter of Perception," Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct 17, 2002.
• "Profilers Fill in Killer's Outline with Strokes of Human Nature," Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 8, 2002.
• "U.S. Marshals," CourtTV's Crime Library, Sept. 2002.
• "Genene Jones: Killer Nurse," CourtTV's Crime Library, Sept. 2002.
• "King Tut, Central Park Jogger Case Show Limits of Science," Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept 16, 2002.
• "Ballistics: The Science of Guns," CourtTV's Crime Library, September 2002.
• "The Killing of George Parkman," CourtTV's Crime Library, September 2002.
• "Beyond Good and Evil," The Saucon News, Sept 12, 2002.
• "Posthumous Tug-of-war engulfs Williams, U.S." Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug. 4, 2002.
• "Efren Salvidar: Killer Doctor," CourtTV's Crime Library, August 2002.
• "Getting at the Truth: The Polygraph Revisited," The Saucon News, Aug. 1, 2002.
• "An Arizona Murder Trial offers Insight into Lex Street Case," Philadelphia Inquirer, June 18, 2002.
• "Forensic Science has Much to Offer in Analyzing Case of Chandra Levy," Philadelphia Inquirer, May 28, 2002.
• "Case presentation," The Vidocq Society Newsletter, April 2002.
• "Death Cult: Heaven's Gate," CourtTV's Crime Library, May 2002.
• "Female Offenders," CourtTV's Crime Library, April 2002.
• "Profile of Ann Rule," CourtTV's Crime Library, April 2002.
• "Women Who Kill" CourtTV's Crime Library, March 2002.
• "Joe Hunt: White Collar Psychopath," CourtTV's Crime Library, March, 2002.
• "Yates Trial Calls us to Rethink Awareness/Impairment," Philadelphia Inquirer, March 05, 2002
• "David Koresh: Milennial Madness," CourtTV's Crime Library, March 20, 2002.
• "Teen's Suicide a Wish for Bold Exit," Philadelphia Inquirer, January 10, 2002.
• "Stalkers: Psychological Terrorists," CourtTV's Crime Library, January 2002.
• "The Boston Strangler and DNA," The Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 11, 2001.
• "Evil and the Criminal Mind," CourtTV's Crime Library, November 2001.
• "Profile of FBI agent Robert Ressler," CourtTV's Crime Library, November, 2001.
• "Profile of Forensic Pathologist Michael Baden, " CourtTV's Crime Library, November, 2001.
• "Interview with Henry C. Lee," CourtTV's Crime Library, September 2001.
• "Fingerprints and Other Impressions," CourtTV's Crime Library, August 2001.
• "K-9 Forensics,"CourtTV's Crime Library, August 2001.
• "Gary Gilmore," CourtTV's Crime Library, July, 2001.
• "Forensic Art," CourtTV's Crime Library, July 2001.
• "The Rise and Fall of Tom Capano," CourtTV's Crime Library, June, 2001.
• "Angels of Death: The Nurses," CourtTV's Crime Library, May 2001.
• "Angels of Death: The Doctors," CourtTV's Crime Library, May 2001.
• "Forensic Anthropology," CourtTV's Crime Library, April, 2001.
• "School Killers," CourtTV's Crime Library, March, 2001.
• "Serology," CourtTV's Crime Library, February, 2001.
• "Time of Death, CourtTV's Crime Library, February, 2001.
• "Literary Forensics," CourtTV's Crime Library, February, 2001.
• "Trace Evidence," CourtTV's Crime Lbrary, January, 2001.
• "DNA: Genetic Fingerprints," CourtTV's Crime Library, Dec., 2000.
• "Geographic Profiling," Court TV's Crime Library, Nov. 2000.
• "Forensic Hypnosis," Court TV's Crime Library, Oct. 2000.
• "Voice Prints," Court TV's Crime Library, Oct, 2000.
• "Bite Mark Evidence," CourtTV's Crime Library, Sept. 2000.
• "Roy Hazelwood: FBI Profiler of Sex Crimes" Crime Library, July, 2000.
• "The Fledgling Psychopath," Crime Library, April, 2000.
• "Fantasy: Blueprint for Potential," Medscape, CBS Healthwatch website, 2000.
• "Richard Trenton Chase: The 'Vampire' Killer of Sacramento," Crime Library, November, 1999.
• "Denis Nilsen: Keeping His Victims," Crime Library, November, 1999.
• "The Art of Forensic Psychology," Crime Writers Manual, Writers Digest Press, 2000.
• "John Norman Collins: The Ann Arbor Co-ed Killer," Crime Library, June, 1999.
• "The Female Psychopath," Forensic Psychology Focus, 1999.
• "The Muddled Concept of a Spree Killer," Forensic Psychology Focus, 1999.
• "Psychological Autopsies," Forensic Psychology Focus, 1999.
• "Hunger for the Marvelous," Psychology Today, October, 1989.
• "Kierkegaard and Psychotherapy," Review of Existential Psychiatry and Psychology, Fall, 1985.
• "Energize Your Nonfiction," Writers' Guide to Publishing, 2001.
• "Communities of the Mind: Book Groups," The Newark Star Ledger, Newark, NJ, January, 1997.
• "Promoting Literacy," March 22, 1997, The Newark Star Ledger, Newark, NJ, March, 1997
• "On Being a Witness," Literary Biography: Problems and Solutions, ed. Dale Salwak, NY: St. Martin's, 1995.
• "Writing Biographies," The Writer, October, 1990.
• "Albert Camus: Visions of the Absurd," Biblio, January, 1999.
• "Joyce Carol Oates and the Madness of Art," Biblio, July 1999.
• "Anne Rice and the Deconstruction of Darkness," The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, Fall, 1991.
• "Kierkegaard and The Sickness Unto Death", Biblio, March, 1999.
• "Kierkegaard and Grice: Implication and Communication," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, XLVIII, No. 2, 1987.
• "Kierkegaard and Erickson: Indirect Communication in Psychotherapy," Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Spring, 1989.
• "Teaching Critical Reasoning Through Group Competitions," Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 9, No. 4, 1986.

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