(An 85-page True Crime Short, with photos and illustrations) The father lay in the ditch, hands bound in front of him, face savagely bludgeoned. A gruesome sight, but even veteran cops were not prepared for what they saw when they lifted him up: the body of an infant, dressed in a red-and-white pinafore. The baby had been tossed into the ditch alive. She had suffocated when her father's body was pushed on top of her. The man's wife and another daughter were missing for two years. After they were found nearly a hundred miles away, it was clear that the killer's motive was sexual. The father and the baby were quickly discarded. The real prize had been the wife. Her body bore a silk stocking knotted around the neck in an odd-looking harness and her knees were bruised. Police believed she had been ordered to perform a sexual act and had refused, so her killer used a collar to make her do what he wanted. She appeared to have been bludgeoned and hanged, and her little daughter had been beaten to death. This area had been linked to an earlier murder with one suspect, but he had passed a polygraph exam. He was intelligent, educated, mild-mannered, and self-assured. As this case grew more complicated, with more murders linked to a single predator, the emerging motive baffled even the most experienced detectives. ABOUT THE AUTHOR (1900 characters including spaces (author and series combined)) Dr. Katherine Ramsland knows exactly what makes killers tick. A professor of forensic psychology and criminal justice at Pennsylvania's DeSales University, Dr. Ramsland has written and published 48 books and over 1,000 articles giving insight into the psychology of the world's most high-profile mass murder and serial killing cases. She holds advanced degrees in forensic psychology, clinical psychology, philosophy, and criminal justice. Her Crimescape® e-book Psychopath was a Wall St. Journal bestseller. Her other Crimescape e-books are Moonlight Murder on Lovers' Lane, The Vampire Trap, The Ivy League Killer, and MOM: God Told Me to Kill. Her books include The Forensic Psychology of Criminal Minds, The Human Predator, and Inside the Minds of Serial Killers. She writes Shadow Boxing, a blog for Psychology Today. ABOUT THE SERIES A collection of compelling short nonfiction crime e-books from leading independent e-book publisher RosettaBooks, Crimescape® provides riveting storytelling that puts its publications at the top of the true crime genre. Crimescape authors are not only the best true crime authors in the business—many of whom have seen their books made into major motion pictures. They're also police detectives, forensic professionals, criminal psychologists, and investigative reporters. Their inside expertise brings readers unique insight into the murderous mind—and some of the world's most mysterious and fascinating cases. "What makes for a good true-crime story? Interesting characters, an engrossing plot, situations that often teeter between life and death. But here's the MacGuffin about true crime: What you're reading actually happened. Sometimes truth really is more compelling than fiction. And that's why you will enjoy reading Crimescape's true crime series." —Paul Alexander, # 1 bestselling author of the Kindle Singles Accused and Murdered and Homicidal