Just when you think you’ve heard it all … A fascinating and often tongue-in-cheek look into cases of bizarre sexually obsessive behaviors (paraphilias) with unintended consequences. Each chapter briefly explores paraphilias from lesser-known fetishes to more common fixations that unexpectedly led to severe injury, imprisonment and death. Case-by-case accounts provide insight into the circumstances surrounding such infamous incidences as the deaths of INXS singer Michael Hutchence and actor David Carradine, believed to have accidently died from auto-erotic asphyxiation, and the more recent case of the Northern Virginia “Serial Butt Slasher,” where women shopping in malls were brutally stabbed in the behind by an unidentified sexual pervert. These unusual and often disconcerting accounts seriously challenge the adage, “What feels good can’t be wrong.”

Rachael Bell has masters degrees in both clinical forensic and health psychology and worked for truTV (previously Court TV) for more than a decade researching, reporting and writing more than 70 in-depth feature stories on major criminal cases, such as O.J. Simpson, the Green River Killer, Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. She has also worked for more than a decade as a mental-health therapist in psychiatric hospitals and forensic institutes in Europe and the United States, specializing in adult, adolescent and teenage male and female sex offenders, as well as with patients with other psychiatric problems. Her vast experience in the realm of abnormal psychology and the legal system has provided her with unique insight into understanding criminal and deviant behaviors.

From the best true crime authors in the business, many of whom have seen their books made into major motion pictures, comes Crimescape® — a new collection of compelling short nonfiction crime eBooks from leading independent eBook publisher RosettaBooks. Taking readers into the dark minds of criminals and the tense hunt to bring perpetrators to justice, Crimescape® authors stand apart from other true crime writers because they have personal experience in crime investigations, whether as police detectives, investigative reporters, forensics professionals or criminal psychologists. As riveting storytellers, Crimescape® writers give readers all the information they need to understand relevant clues and the interwoven influences in each criminal case.