Nadia Fezzani
Nadia Fezzani is a Canadian journalist who has conducted extensive research and interviews with many notorious American serial killers. She is known in Europe as having interviewed American Serial Killer Richard Cottingham for a French documentary that first aired on TF1, Enquêtes et révélations. She was the first person to interview him in 30 years; she got him to admit his culpability for the first time, as well as many more murders. She is the writer of "Mes tueurs en série":
Book MY SERIAL KILLERS
The Jack the Rippers of the world arouse both fascination and horror...What goes through the killer's mind at the moment he commits his crime? What makes him perform such horrible acts? And, above all, are serial killers born or made? To answer these questions, the author visited various American penitentiaries in person to meet with psychopaths. Alone with the unhandcuffed killer in a police interview room, under the watchful eye of security guards hidden behind a two-way mirror, she wrote down their secrets, each more disturbing than the others. Totally uncensored, the killers' shocking statements are juxtaposed in the book with accounts by psychiatrists, profilers and criminologists who are experts in the field and try to dissect the personalities of those who, on sight, hardly seem human. Through the magnifying glass of various theories, these monsters' actions and ways of thinking attest to their insanity or offer a glimpse of the profound unhappiness at the root of their lethal anti-social behaviour. The result is an unsettling book that takes us into the minds and hearts of men who have committed the worst atrocities. A powerful reaction guaranteed.
The book's strong points: • exceptional access to the killers' secrets and some previously unpublished details • a number of theories about the criminal tendencies and motives driving serial killers (advance signs, an extra chromosome, intelligence quotient, the Macdonald triad, motivations, typical victims, etc.) • advice to parents on how to recognize signs that could indicate a child's predisposition to gratuitous violence
Table of contents Preface (written by Dr. Eric Hickey) 1. The approach 2. Arthur Shawcross : my first serial killer 3. What defines a serial killer 4. Keith Jesperson: The Happy Face Killer 5. Gary Grant 6. Joel Rifkin: Joel The Ripper 7. Richard Cottingham: The Torso Killer 8. Cottingham's TV confession 9. Jack Trawick: executed in 2009 10. Patrick Kearney: The Freeway Killer 11. Safety advice with regard to this kind of predator
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Nadia Fezzani had studied French literature at Concordia University (Montreal). She also studied Journalism at St Clair College in Windsor (Ontario). After her studies, she covered interviews with famous athletes for five years and was in charge of the media relations for the Montreal Matrix as well as the Buffalo Sharks. She then conducted interviews with music stars, like Dave Navarro and Nickelback just to name a few.
Nadia Fezzani had published articles in the magazines and newspapers Montreal Metro, 24 Heures, Dernière Heure, UMM, Bobbi, Les Canadiens, Summum, Summum Girl, Hometown Hockey, and Samedi, just to name a few.
As a specialist on serial killers, Ms. Fezzani gives conferences on the topic to university students and to different organizations. She also works with production companies on TV documentaries.