In Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: Guilty but Insane, criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee turns his cool, forensic eye on killers who have deployed the insanity defence at their trials for murder, whether because they were genuinely insane, or to try to avoid a harsher sentence which, in many countries, may still include the death penalty. Among the killers � sane or otherwise � discussed in this book are: Noreen O'Connor: possessed by a demon? Daniel M'Naghten: the M'Naghten Rule, Pedro Alonso L�pez: 'the Monster of the Andes', Pawel Alojzy Tuchlin: codenamed 'Scorpion', William Chester Minor: sanity v. madness, Dr Julio Cesar Mora: a tale with a remarkable twist, Thomas Dee Huskey: 'the Zoo Man' and Angus Ronald True: a fractured psyche. Of those seeking the verdicts 'guilty but insane' or 'not guilty by reason of insanity', some succeeded, to end their days in secure mental hospitals; others failed, winning only an appointment with the executioner.… (more)