A review by sierablane
American Ripper: The Enigma Of America's Serial Killer Cop by Patrick Kendrick

challenging dark informative tense slow-paced

3.5

Read this book after Morbid: A True Crime Podcast covered this case. Very informative and fairly well written. I think the author too often tried to disconnect the many examples of poor police work from why Gerard went so long undetected. The more I read, learn, and listen to any content concerning serial killers, especially the ones active in the 60s-late 80s, the more it’s obvious that one of the major reasons they were all able to make victims of so many people was because of the nature of their respective investigations (or, too often, the lack thereof). I don’t think Gerard was railroaded by the justice system - he was charged as he should have been. It’s a shame the other departments thought it would be a “waste of taxpayer money” to try him for any others. Families have a right to know what happened to their loved ones 
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