True crime: 12 chilling case studies. Meet the victims, their killers and the bloody consequences of their deeds. No one knows how many serial killers are roaming the United States. Some experts believe they murder as many as 180 people each year. Others say the count may be much higher because some serial killers hide the bodies and they're never found. A pretty farm girl fed her victims to the hogs Stalkers far outnumber serial killers. Each year they threaten 3.4 million people in America. Although stalkers may profess love for the objects of their obsession, many seriously injure or kill their "love object." Eg: You're the one that I want ... to kill. Domestic homicide is rampant in the US. Women and children rarely kill family members. Men commit the majority of domestic homicides. Some are crimes of passion. Others are carefully calculated. Why bother with a divorce when you can kill your spouse? A cross-dressing doctor murdered his wife to keep his millions. "In Dark Deeds, Susan Fleet immerses us in the world of serial killers, stalkers, and domestic homicides. Even an inveterate fiction enthusiast like myself found her real-life tales obsessively haunting and educational." — Arthur Smukler, MD, psychiatrist