Far more persuasive were the insights offered by an unnamed specialist cited in a widely circulated article by noted journalist Arthur James Pegler. Placing her in the proper criminological category, this person saw Mrs. Gunness as “a maniac of the much-dreaded type that includes the White Chapel murderer.” It is “not money” that drives such killers “but the constantly growing appetite for blood, to cut deep and watch the blood flow, to dabble the hands in it, to revel in the odor of it.” One “distinguishing features of these criminals is their invariable use of the same methods in every case.
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