An edition of Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong (2017)

Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong

inside the mind of a female serial killer

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An edition of Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong (2017)

Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong

inside the mind of a female serial killer

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  • 1 Want to read

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.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language
English
Pages
253

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Subjects

Case studies, Women serial murderers, Mentally ill offenders, Female offenders, Criminals, biography, Criminals, united states

People

Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong

Places

Pennsylvania, Erie
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Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong: inside the mind of a female serial killer
2017, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Cycle of death : Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong's pattern of violence
In rare company : female serial killers in history
Killing like a man : angels of death, black widows, and damsels of doom
A cluttered mind : Marjorie Diehl's hoarding and other obsessions
Dictionary of disorder : defining mental illness
Death of a boyfriend : a fatal shooting, a suicide, and a question of stability
"A madman or a natural fool" : determining mental competency
"Scared to death" : Marjorie Diehl's first homicide trial
Flight of ideas : the burdens of bipolar disorder
"Freezer queen" : Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong kills again
The fractured intellectuals : the pizza bomber plot unravels
Psyche on trial : Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong's final verdict
Afterword
Notes
Selected bibliography
Index
About the authors.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-245) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.152/32092
Library of Congress
HV6517 .C525 2017, HV6517

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 253 pages, 16 pages of plates unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
253

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26949109M
ISBN 10
1442260076
ISBN 13
9781442260078
LCCN
2017007989
OCLC/WorldCat
1000150350

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